"Hipster" as pejorative.

limousine liberal?

neiman marxist is so much better than limousine liberal. i object to the phrase anyway, on the ground that it is impossible to live outside the capitalist system so all of its critics will be stained, somehow, by hypocrisy. it's just too easy an attack to lob at someone.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/13/us-public-policy-polling-hipster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDs_yL2yj9g

Demythologizing Consumption Practices: How Consumers Protect Their Field-Dependent Identity Investments from Devaluing Marketplace Myths
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/656389
suggested by (lel,) le reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeIAmA/comments/1f2rbo/explain_hipters_to_me_like_im_a_hipster_and_youre/ca692vy

was this a real story? the hobo hipster fashion line? its from last year. i can't tell if its a real thing or not.

http://bushwickdaily.com/2012/11/bushwick-inspires-mens-fashion-line-its-about-time/

sorry if this was already covered...

Hipster chicken crisis

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/22777081/backyard-chickens-dumped-at-shelters-when-hipsters-cant-cope-critics-say#.Udq-kM2cHe8.twitter

I like this line

"People don't know what they're doing," Britton Clouse said. "And you've got this whole culture of people who don't know what the hell they're doing teaching every other idiot out there."

So these people are basically accessorizing with or getting caught up in the fantasy of the self-image they'd like to project but when it comes down to dedicating themselves this deeply they chicken out. Probably happens often but the pun is the only unique element of this specific case, huh.

god, "humane farming" is a bullshit fantasy

"One of our hens grew up into a rooster and our neighbors are starting to complain. Do you know someone who might take him?"

I mean come on

I'll miss you, Henry...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/4/28/1272450741733/Roast-chicken-006.jpg
Standard practice for egg-spent chickens.

"It's the stupid foodies," said Britton Clouse, 60, who admits she speaks frankly. "We're just sick to death of it."

sorry but i think that britton clouse person kind of sounds like an idiot

also see shit that looks like an onion article but isn't

She sounds awesome:

"People don't know what they're doing," Britton Clouse said. "And you've got this whole culture of people who don't know what the hell they're doing teaching every other idiot out there."

Is it just me that was thrown off by ",critics say" rounding off the headline?

i don't know, i don't live in NYC but most of the people i know who raise chickens aren't hipsters and know pretty well what they're doing

Obviously the woman who runs a chicken shelter in Minnesota disagrees with you.

Got an e-mail today from "VSCO x Levi's commuter" - VSCO is a company that puts out Lightroom/Photoshop filters that mimic film. It can get Instagrammy but some are okay.

"We are proud to team up with Levi’s® #commuter and a group of amazing photographers to capture what it means to “Go to Work” in Portland, San Francisco, Denver, Austin, Minneapolis and Brooklyn.

Now, we want to see what “Go to Work” means to you, in your city."

spam as pejorative

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/nyregion/manson-whitlock-typewriter-repairman-dies-at-96.html?hpw

can't even make it through this awesome obituary without hipster intruision

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/opinion/sunday/caught-in-the-hipster-trap.html?_r=1&

the word "hipster" appears exactly 30 times in that article

ts: who spends more time worrying about the other's style, hipsters or norms

same old story from the nyt but i did kind of appreciate this one line:

Has there ever been a subculture this broadly defined?

b/c it does somehow seem like "hipster" is taken to just mean youngish urban resident with some creative interests who likes books, music, film, etc

"hipster" is as vague as "indie" and they generally come as a set.

http://www.theawl.com/2013/09/i-was-a-hated-hipster-meme-and-then-it-got-worse

I posted this in the Ridicule thread, as well: Ridicule

It crosses over from ridicule to 'hipsterism'.

stuffisthings (#1,352)
Here's a fun thought exercise: try imagining someone who lives in New York but is definitely NOT a hipster. What do they look like? What do they wear? What kind of music do they listen to? What do they do with their day?
Posted on September 18, 2013 at 5:16 pm

stuffisthings (#1,352)
OK, did you do it? Maybe you imagined an immigrant taxi driver or a black single mother in the Bronx or a Staten Island garbage man.

Now: imagine that person complaining about "hipsters" on an Internet forum.
Posted on September 18, 2013 at 5:24 pm

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/savage-love-noisy-neighbors-nosy-questions/Content?oid=10977980

lol reminds me of when an ex-girlfriend lived in a house with an annoying hipster dude

that is, her housemate was dating an annoying hipster dude

are we doing this one in another thread already?

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20131013_Phila__should_be_grateful_to_its_hipsters.html

Nate House is the author of the novel "Float" (Route 47 Publishing)

E-mail Nate House at nhouse✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧.

hipsters are just young republicans?

http://www.ryot.org/5-ways-republicans-different-hipsters/419053

hardly a new viewpoint, the Vice axis, while it's tilted back toward the middle since the McInnes years, was hardly a stranger to conservatism

i like the handy 5-point summary though

Crapping on Everything Without Offering an Alternative
Retro-Obsessed
Irony
The Phony Everyman
Self-Denial

also, "trust-fundamentalist"

Because everyone knows a hipster when they see one — unless it’s them. And in today’s republican party, everyone can identify a wackadoo, right-wing asshat except when they’re it.

This is inane.

equality ain't just a river in egypt

Inane doesn't mean your swimming near first world war battlefields.

hipsters are just young republicans?

http://www.ryot.org/5-ways-republicans-different-hipsters/419053

― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, October 14, 2013 1:55 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did anyone not know this

i didn't. i don't really know many young republicans

lol ok my bad i don't know why i have to phrase everything i post like an asshole lately. but yeah, hipsters are a maybe not 'republicans' but certainly exhibit a weird type of conservative thinking that i'm sure will lead to some odd political positioning in some of these young ppl's future

yes this clear-cut, easily definable group of people that has come to be known as "hipsters" clearly "exhibit" an identifiable "type" of "thinking" as a group. Thank you for your insightful post.

maybe the whole crew doesn't but the trust-fundamentalist subset clearly exhibit a type of "reflexive dismissive" "sarcasm"

Really stupid article. Hurting otm.

most people attacking "trust fund" types couldn't provide a working definition of what a trust fund is anyway, it just means "ppl I don't like & totally consider myself different from"

― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:11 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hipsters getting touchy itt