"Hipster" as pejorative.

hipster today i think likes everything mainstream instead of the opposite

Freaky Trigger won the culture war

Where are the new mandarins?

lol at an ad for ads

Maybe the wrong thread for this, but wondering if anyone would like to weigh in on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nICH7QtFrU

This is a hipstery live comedy talent show that happens monthly at a theatre near where I live. Performing rabbits, kids impersonating Frank Sinatra etc. The person being interviewed is a very well-known person in the local community who is extremely marginalised and challenged. Harrassed and assaulted often. Arrested hundreds of times probably. Here (in my opinion) being patronised for being mentally ill. It's not the first time they've brought well-known people from the street on-stage for this and I find it disgusting.

The host was challenged about it on FB and said " I feel good about it though because I know that it was positive for her. She says that people have seen it on TV and approach her who wouldn't of before and are kinder to her because of it and that makes her feel more part of the community and less of an outsider. We are not solving mental illness, but it seems like this is a tiny tiny tiny step at least in the right direction."

Is he full of shit?

Mipster:

http://www.worldcrunch.com/mobile/#a:21178

Also, are we now reaching the phase where hipster (like Yuppie before it) isn't an insult as much as a warm joke?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/hipsters-broke-my-gaydar.html

oh dear

what. is. this. garbage.

Lesbians invented hipsters.

[...]

Lesbians were working on communal organic farms and freaking out about pesticides decades before the rest of the country.

[...]

Did plaid flannel come to mind? Work boots? Weirdly cut or especially shaggy hair? Maybe a bike?

[...]

If you’re a queer bristling at my generalizations of lesbians, tell me you don’t know any gays who look like what I’m describing. Look me in the eyes and tell me this, and if you can do it, I swear to you I will do something straight for a week: I’ll watch “The Bachelor” without irony, or wear Dockers, or buy a “Live, Laugh, Love” throw pillow and display it in my home.

this weirdo needs to go to west hollywood -- plenty of homosexuals that don't adhere to most of this

i saw someone wearing a knit hat on a day when the high was 100 F, which seemed like an odd choice, and when i told someone else about it, he replied that someone who would do that is obviously a terrible hipster and that normal sensible people like us would never do such a thing. i kind of frowned and said "i dunno, man" and didn't really try to argue the point, but now i want to know what this guy thinks a hipster is.

i got called a hipster the other day. was wearing a suit, toque.....they said "i like your hipster style'

I got myself a sort of obnoxious “edgy” haircut recently (buzzed on the sides with etched lines, faux-hawk on top, mullet in back), and I must say there’s something fun about sporting an annoying style like this. First, because I just felt like it. Second, because I’m realizing I really don’t care very much if some people think “douchebag hipster” or whatever. And third: my teenage kids think it’s “epic”. :-)

The fact is, I suspect I’m close enough to whatever many people think is a “hipster” that it’s not worth the effort to try to ensure I’m not mistaken for one.

Yeah ^

Steve Albini apparently had to relinquish his favored hipster haircut because it had been co-opted by alt-right.

i think some people dislike hipsters because they associate them with a certain lifestyle/way of thinking/gentrification - which can often be wrong.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-giving-tree-grows-in-brooklyn?fbclid=IwAR0EACpWbBNxJMnETavMz3mqFpLvY8l1V-CobcD330KWCSMnbGRaqDTPEkM

Seeing pieces like this published in 2020 is like finding one of those isolated Japanese island bunkers where the soldiers don't know the war is over.

anyone else see this thread in a serif font?

Yes

I am still in favor of a return to "hep cat" as an accolade.

seeing this in sans-serif, btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPzt3A4Se_U

mcsweeneys reading man bristles at unflattering depiction of hipsters as 'so passe'

ftr it was in my facebook feed, I do NOT reed McSweeneys!

That Blossom song (OK a Dave Frishberg song sung by Blossom) is one of the best things ever, do click that triangle

Speaking of McSweeney's, Dave Eggers Trump novel sounds like it's the worst thing to ever be written.

Did you post the McS link without reading it?

Seeing pieces like this published in 2020 is like finding one of those isolated Japanese island bunkers where the soldiers don't know the war is over.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, January 26, 2020 10:17 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

good. let's wind the culture back to 2010 -- a moment of crisis but also incipient hope -- and just do this shit over again, better this time.