Submitted For Your Consideration: The Growing Myth Of The Philly Trust Fund Hipster
At this point, it’s a canard as old as the hills, almost a prevailing wisdom: Hipsters are lazy, annoyingly trendy, bougie fucks that are ruining everything for everybody. We here at Philebrity are acutely aware of this, seeing as how it’s basically the tenor of every piece of hate mail we get. (Anyone who rallies against those who seem to hate sex and have no style, apparently, gets lumped in with hipster nation. Our stance? Fuck it. If the shoe fits, we’ll wear it, in bed, while we sleep the sleep of the just.) But one thing has really begun to stick in our craw, and only because it is by and large factually inaccurate: The myth of the trust fund hipster. Believe us, we’ve definitely come across our share of those living the PBR life on a mom-and-dad stipend, but they are far and few between, and as often as not, hot with shame about it. But they are the exception that makes the rule. Right now, there’s an article up for deletion on Wikipedia that plays out this new urban myth in a way that is about as rote and unimaginative as you’ll see anywhere this side of Philadelphia Weekly, who continue to shit where they eat simply because, like most hipster-bashers, they seem to have just plain run out of ideas. And yet, in all of this, nobody seems to want to fess up to what the hipster-bashing trend ‚Äî and oh yes, you anti-trendoid police, it definitely is a trend ‚Äî is really all about: The latest iteration of the class wars. Which are also as old as the hills. And despite their many, many faults, hipsters irk the rest of the Dockers-wearing, cubicle-dwelling populace mostly because they represent another way of getting by. One that, it should be noted, slipped by the Dockers-wearing, cubicle-dwelling populace a long time ago. And in the offing, they’re re-invigorating neighborhoods like Fishtown and G-Ho that had gone to seed for so long that people there started to believe that crime, poverty and ignorance was some kind of birthright to be celebrated. So here’s what you can take away from this: Hipsters, for the most part, are not spoonfed crybabies. They simply ‚Äî and unlike the rest of you proles out in the neighborhoods ‚Äî understand birth control and the joy of not doing shit you don’t feel like doing. Maybe some of you should take a few notes from this.
Wikipedia: You Might Wanna Spell Check That Thing While You’re At It
