The Trouble with ‘The Trouble With Hipsters’

Okay, people, it’s time to come clean: I had a blast doing the hipster issue. Well, I mean, I didn’t spend too much time on it. But I wrote a timeline making fun of myself, and contributed some quiz questions.

Yeah, we had the Vice dos and don’ts ripoff, we made fun of people, blah blah blah. Look, I think some people took it too seriously, as in, “Oh, come on. It’s not meant to be taken seriously.” You’re free to disagree, or boycott PW, or whatever. But people who didn’t like it would agree with me that citing it as a source for hipster-bashing is, uhm, kind of strange:

The week of Nov. 9, 2005, Philadelphia Weekly ran a cover story entitled “The Trouble With Hipsters: Why We Hate Them,” in which they criticized the “crazy, malnourished, bespectacled, follicly challenged, hipper-than-thou little fucks” for their “cultural fascism and the belief that populism is somehow inherently evil.”

Whoo! I don’t even have to look it up to know that she’s quoting PW Music Ed. Neil Ferguson. I don’t usually like to rag on the Daily Pennsylvanian, and god knows some of my columns there were boring, but, come on, citing the hipster issue? To bash hipsters who go down to First Friday?

Eh, but I suppose I shouldn’t discourage any mention of PW.

Bonus fun fact: A Daniel McQuade column supporting John Street for mayor in 2003 cited a story in The Philadelphia Independent.

Die, Hipster, Die [PW]
Keeping the local art scene accessible [DP]