I Hate Hipsters
73I really don't hate hipsters... I just thought it was a catchy title.
But hipsters are interesting to me.
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In a previous hub, I elaborated a bit more on the hipster phenomenon and one of the biggest hipster fads - the fixed gear bike. Interesting that in the photo above, the pictured hipsters have gone with a BMX bike, seemingly the choice du jour of Black and Latino gangsters or perfectly harmless and well-adjusted urban minorities. I am not sure why hipsters prompt such hatred from the masses. Could it be that they are actually as cool as they act and everyone else is simply jealous? For me, I really don't hate them but I get irked by them in some fashion. And I think it's because they have this 'too cool to talk' and/or 'too cool to acknowledge' you attitude. For example, I walk by this guy everyone morning here in Los Angeles, who is the epitome of the wanna-be hipster.
This guy does not have the typical hipster build... he tall, but somewhat overweight. To his credit, he does not try to squeeze into the tight jeans, vintage t-shirt, and size too small sport coat, but if he could he would. iPod firmly implanted, he walks by me (and others I presume) each day both noticing the other's presence and not noticing it all at the same time. Good stuff. That's why so many people hate hipsters, or so I think. I wrote this hub to see if it's really true... do people hate hipsters? And if so, do they actually Google, from time to time, "I hate hipsters"?
This dude even has a blog, though it has not been updated in forever (I guess he lost the fight over a gentrifying Brooklyn), about his hatred for hipsters.
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Good comment. I don't think every thing a hipster does is silly. In fact, I have some behaviors that are, seemingly, hipster. I think the problem really is, as you say, feeling like you need to adhere to some mantra of rules set up by some subarea of the society you are supposedly countering.
Especially young people, who need to "try on" identities before finding who they really are, are prone to such thinking. Who didn't (or doesn't) identify with jocks or stoners or nerds/geeks or whatever in high school? The thing is, the idea of adhering to "some mantra of rules set up by some subarea of society" really applies to everyone at every age! If you are a suburban homeowner your subscribe to a certain set of behaviors and values. If you go to a certain church, you subscribe to a certain set of behaviors and values. Even people who pointedly want to NOT fit in (e.g, hipsters) have to fit in with the others who are working so hard to not fit in! LOL. We are such funny creatures, we humans!
the larger social structure swallows everything up into one giant pot-like abyss.
Everybody needs to belong to a circle where they can be themselves and accepted for what they are. This only becomes tragic when one just think of the "coolness" factor. Otherwise, the world is a big enough umbrella for everyone :D
the trouble with hipsters is that they don't suit lots of people. You need a completely flat belly to wear them, something too many wearers don't have (-:
I find it difficult to pin down a group that I would call hipsters as described here. Instead I find different levels of the self-absorbtion our encapsulated society promotes. Some people who appear to be too encapsulated to interact with respond to attempted communications and others do not.
Fun ;)
I'm sure you've heard of http://lookatthisfuckinghipster.tumblr.com?
Mighty Mom says:
9 months ago
I try not to hate anyone, especially not an entire class of people. But of course it's taken me a lot of years to get to this "nonjudgmental" place. From where I sit, so-called hipsters are just young people posing. They are desperately trying to figure out who they are and assert their independence. But what they are really doing is buying into a silly set of rules that require them to follow certain fashions slavishly. And that includes adopting that "I'm too cool for (fill in the blank" attitude. Like emos, goths and punks, it's just a way to fit in.
Good luck getting Google traffic to your hub!