Anyone Else Can't Stand Hipsters?

[Anonymous]

Ah right, we were lacking a thread about bashing an entire group of people.

It's not enough that those dastardly immigrants with bad genes are eating our pets or murdering honest white folk. It's not enough that we hate those selfish boomers and that we hate that narcissistic millenials.

We must manufacture yet more hate for yet another (possibly imaginary) group.

Exhausting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What prompted this post, OP?

DH and I were at dinner earlier and there was a couple at the table next to us that were clearly hipster parents who are still trying to be cool. I honestly hadn't thought about hipsters for some time but overhearing these two talk about some upcoming shows they were attending, the husband talking about how he wants to have their son not play sports because they're too mainstream and the fact that he had a bizarre looking mustache reminded me how much they've annoyed me over the years.

[Anonymous]

lol ok…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What prompted this post, OP?

DH and I were at dinner earlier and there was a couple at the table next to us that were clearly hipster parents who are still trying to be cool. I honestly hadn't thought about hipsters for some time but overhearing these two talk about some upcoming shows they were attending, the husband talking about how he wants to have their son not play sports because they're too mainstream and the fact that he had a bizarre looking mustache reminded me how much they've annoyed me over the years.

Attending shows, a bizarre looking mustache and not playing the typical sports.

Wow, you're so shallow and judgemental, OP. I'd rather have a conversation with those people than you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What prompted this post, OP?

DH and I were at dinner earlier and there was a couple at the table next to us that were clearly hipster parents who are still trying to be cool. I honestly hadn't thought about hipsters for some time but overhearing these two talk about some upcoming shows they were attending, the husband talking about how he wants to have their son not play sports because they're too mainstream and the fact that he had a bizarre looking mustache reminded me how much they've annoyed me over the years.

What’s wrong with talking about shows you’re going to or not wanting your kids to play sports? Sounds like you and DH need to find something interesting to talk to each other about so you don’t have randomly hate on strangers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What prompted this post, OP?

DH and I were at dinner earlier and there was a couple at the table next to us that were clearly hipster parents who are still trying to be cool. I honestly hadn't thought about hipsters for some time but overhearing these two talk about some upcoming shows they were attending, the husband talking about how he wants to have their son not play sports because they're too mainstream and the fact that he had a bizarre looking mustache reminded me how much they've annoyed me over the years.

Why are you so insecure about yourself, and so desperate to fit in with what you perceive to be the blandest of norms, that you can't even abide a mustache, or an adult going to a show, or someone not liking the usual team sports?

I'm a woman, so don't sport a mustache, but I attend classical music concerts and art exhibits, and most emphatically do not appreciate team sports. My teens have no interest in them, and I'm quite relieved. One of them is an accomplished classical musician. The other sings in a choir. We're music folk. OK, one of them rides on horseback as well, which counts as a sport, given the core muscles involved.

What's wrong with any of this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What prompted this post, OP?

DH and I were at dinner earlier and there was a couple at the table next to us that were clearly hipster parents who are still trying to be cool. I honestly hadn't thought about hipsters for some time but overhearing these two talk about some upcoming shows they were attending, the husband talking about how he wants to have their son not play sports because they're too mainstream and the fact that he had a bizarre looking mustache reminded me how much they've annoyed me over the years.

Pathetic.

You. You're the pathetic one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you were a hipster, what would your hipster name be?

They're always named Kyle, but go by Kix or something.

[Anonymous]

So... you're drunk and bitter about how your life turned out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m looking at you bearded neighbor wearing wool flannel and skinny jeans. And no, I won’t fight you about turning down your indie music, Bobby. Time to put out the bonfire.

But I mean, isn’t this person like 40? The youngs don’t wear skinny jeans.

[Anonymous]

At least they had children. Most hipsters loathe them.

[Anonymous]

NP here

To the PP, there is nothing wrong with any of that! But those interests don't make you a hipster.

Even the mustache alone doesn't a hipster make. I think it's the performative rejection of mainstream culture that does.

They are poseurs. There is plenty of room between the hipster norms and the "basic" PSL crowd.

[Anonymous]

I like people who challenge norms. I judge people who don't tolerate people being different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of all, trying so hard to be unique, but by doing so they end up conforming to the sub-culture which itself has become a whole genre and not just a unique niche.

It seems that the trend is not as prominent as it was maybe 5-7 years ago, but I still can't wait until it's no longer cool to be a hipster.

This is always the case, from beatniks emulating the so-called Beat writers to the most modern "cool thing" to do. By trying to be individualistic, they conform into an amorphous blob.

"Body Snatchers" effect, which was ironically pirated and emulated from Heinlein's "Puppet Masters".

It's all so tiring, but will continue as long as humans exist. Now if only they'd get rid of the sissy looking skinny jeans and mom jeans and bring back the low rise hip hugging jeans in style. They are harder to find now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of all, trying so hard to be unique, but by doing so they end up conforming to the sub-culture which itself has become a whole genre and not just a unique niche.

It seems that the trend is not as prominent as it was maybe 5-7 years ago, but I still can't wait until it's no longer cool to be a hipster.

This is always the case, from beatniks emulating the so-called Beat writers to the most modern "cool thing" to do. By trying to be individualistic, they conform into an amorphous blob.

"Body Snatchers" effect, which was ironically pirated and emulated from Heinlein's "Puppet Masters".

It's all so tiring, but will continue as long as humans exist. Now if only they'd get rid of the sissy looking skinny jeans and mom jeans and bring back the low rise hip hugging jeans in style. They are harder to find now.

"Hipster" itself is just a re-branded and sillier form of older "Hipsters" from the Jazz era nearly a century ago. What's old is new.