"Hipster" as pejorative.

i think i just want to avoid judgmental people in my life, no matter if they're being judgmental about hipsters, or gays, or ethnic minorities or w/e. anyone who feels the need to complain without reason or vilify or antagonize... fuck 'em.

i generally find exclusionary scenes pretty depressing but also i like to assume the best in people until they prove otherwise. except for neo-nazis! fool me once, etc

that last video has me confused & ashamed. but probably not in the intended way.

I thought I was in the clear because I don't actually have black friends (via rejecting human companionship entirely), but now I'm worried that my haircut & smell might be bothering some of my community college classmates, in which case I apologize

it is kind of frightening to be a member of the 'hipster' caste (I'm not actually technically a hipster, but I look similar enough that only another hipster would know this) and realize that there are people for whom my mere appearance reflexively provokes hatred

as for 'treating animals better than humans' or w/e—yeah that's definitely some shit I've observed people doing, I can see how it's kinda problematic but I just tend to assume that those folks are autistic

... fuck, this is one of those things that's gonna keep bothering me until I blog a thinkpiece about it, isn't it?

I treat animals better than humans. Because they are better than humans, most of the time.

you shouldn't bug out about possibly being a hipster because "hipster" is essentially just code for "this kind of person whom I find really annoying" sometimes mixed in with vaguely defined ideas of privilege & cultural tourism

i think i just want to avoid judgmental people in my life, no matter if they're being judgmental about hipsters, or gays, or ethnic minorities or w/e. anyone who feels the need to complain without reason or vilify or antagonize... fuck 'em.

― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Wednesday, February 20, 2013 9:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dunno people who rant about how they hate hipsters can be boorish and annoying, but i really can't equate that with if they ranted about how they hate gay people or people of a certain race

Hipsters are a tricky class, like "intellectuals" it's almost always used to describe others and there's a connotation of phoniness i.e. a hipster thinks he's cool and has good taste (but you think he's a poseur). Likewise, intellectual is often code for calling someone a pseudointellectual. A hipster is pseudohip.

Hope you're all enjoying my amazon kindle prose.

Hipsters returning clothes to Urban Outfitters in droves

is the actual headline of that article

It's kind of a shame. If we could only get a lot people to wear the batshit crazy clothes highlighted in this thread, the world would be a much more entertaining place.

otm

Real hipsters are okay. However, these wannabe hipster fuckwits on Twitter who listen to Arctic Monkeys and You Me At Six and think they're anti-mainstream annoy me.

:)

nice first post SNB

Or what about these morons who think they're mods because they've been listening to Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, The Stone Roses and Jake Bugg for about six months? Really gets my goat.

otm

Really gets my goat.

c'mon nobody uses this kind of phrase unless theyre a sock. try harder

Really gets my goat

morelike try HERDER

<I>c'mon nobody uses this kind of phrase unless theyre a sock. try harder</I>

Or if they're British, like me. Anyone on for some soccer and tea?

c'mon nobody uses this kind of phrase unless theyre a sock. try harder

HTML fail sorted.

blimey

try harder

― 乒乓, Monday, March 18, 2013 2:40 PM (43 minutes ago)

In the hipster thread?

There was a 2013 Farmer's Almanac at my brother's house yesterday and it said something like "2013: Noise is Now" "People are listening to the hiss found on old cassette tapes".

"who think they're mods"

Or what about these morons who think they're mods because they've been listening to Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, The Stone Roses and Jake Bugg for about six months?

new board title for MRF

^

"If Urban does a better job of making its trendy items more appealing to a broader set of consumers, its hipster customers are less likely to suffer from buyer's regret.
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poignant

Grauniad makes valiant attempt to get people to read about boxing

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/fashion/williamsburg.html?src=me&ref=general&_r=0

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..I can't be the only one who's fed-up with "hipster" as pejorative for the millennial generation's more affected and nostalgic tastes and styles.

which one of you is that

ha

in retrospect my OP is so quaint. this was a time before there were 20 think pieces on "hipsters" every 2 hours

20 think pieces every 2 hours, but maybe someone has finally written the right one:

http://jacobinmag.com/2013/05/the-fucking-hipster-show/

We should retire “hipster “as a term without referent or political salience. Its zombie-like persistence in anti-hipster discourse must be recognized for what it is: an urbane, and socially acceptable, form of ideologically inflected shaming on the part of American elites who must delegitimize those segments of a largely white, college educated population who didn’t do the “acceptable thing.”

eh that thinkpiece is pretty nonsensical

is hipster a euphemism for gentrifier or are hipsters underemployed marxists in brooklyn who will rise up against manhattan

also aren't we at the phase in the process where only people in montana care about the word hipster anymore

or 40 y/o nyt writers

Is there something oddly regional to Montana re: hipsters like black metal is to Florida (which still boggles me)?

the essay doesn't present a completely cohesive argument but it's not nonsensical

also aren't we at the phase in the process where only people in montana care about the word hipster anymore

― iatee, Thursday, May 9, 2013 1:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is repeatedly proven not to be the case

And I think the quote Elmo pulled is OTM. There seems to be a latent conformism beneath a lot of the attacks on hipsters. It's a smarter, more self-aware (yet in some ways less self-aware) conformism that knows better than to come off as being like those fuddy duddies in the 60s who didn't "get" the counterculture. The anti-hipster attitude "gets" counterculture but just thinks it's lame, in a totally knowing way of course. Professionals can wear jeans to work now so what do all these buffoons think they're opposing?

Their alternative lifestyles are silly but it couldn't possibly be that we find them threatening because we're so beyond that and open minded now.

otm

similar to disparagement of "latte-sipping liberals"

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could this thread BE any better?

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