Comments on: Everything’s Better In The Northeast: Understanding Kate Gosselin’s Hair

By: sumshine

sumshine — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:10:59 +0000

Born and raised in the Northeast and this was the funniest shit I have read about it in a long time. And spot on. It is not condescending it is true. And funny. I am sure that the various women that I know (and that are in my family) with this hair and this attitude would agree and think it was funny as hell. I even had a (cuter?) version of this hair in 1998 and it cracks me up.

By: Hovering

Hovering — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:48:35 +0000

Enough, lads. We were trashing NE white women in general, right? You guys are bumming me out. Let’s just all get along here.

So. Lower-back tattoos. Not even trashy anymore, just boring, eh?

By: hipsterscum

hipsterscum — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:28:55 +0000

woodsy– I was addressing tips, NOT you, to remind him that we don’t live in Williamsburg.

By: woodsy

woodsy — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:53:36 +0000

“Yeah, perhaps it is best you left the city.”

QED

By: Allan Smithee

Allan Smithee — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:49:36 +0000

re: “Who said anything about Johnny Brenda’s? I’m dismissing the NE for its provincial, racist attitudes. And for that, yes, Philly fully deserves my condescension. Case closed.”

Yeah, perhaps it is best you left the city.

By: woodsy

woodsy — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:46:31 +0000

Who said anything about Johnny Brenda’s? I’m dismissing the NE for its provincial, racist attitudes. And for that, yes, Philly fully deserves my condescension. Case closed.

By: hipsterscum

hipsterscum — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:31:06 +0000

“But as for Philadelphia’s metamorphosis, what about the old neighborhoods — the old Fishtown that was his home? Neighborhoods changing in price, style and reputation, no doubt leaving at least some residents displaced, or at least feeling left out, or at least struggling with the change?” – Dan P. Lee, “Philadelphia, Meet Your Future”

Sounds like gentrification to me.

I shouldn’t have been such an asshole with that first comment… I really do understand wanting the city to become a better place.

But does that have to mean heaping condescension on other people who live here? Yes, it’s embarrassing to be associated with the many classless, racist jerks in the NEast. And there have been knife fights in Fishtown to “preserve the whiteness of the neighborhood”, but the fact that there is currently no Northeast counterpart to Johnny Brenda’s doesn’t mean you should dismiss this area’s contribution towards shaping what it means to be a Philadelphian.

… We in the Northeast are all really, REALLY sorry about this Arthur Kade business though.

By: woodsy

woodsy — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:25:03 +0000

Having lived in NYC, L.A., and Chicago, I can honestly say the people of those cities are remarkably less racist and more comfortable sharing space and culture with other people than Philly is and has ever been. And that’s from a Philly native with some perspective. If my experience and criticism of Philly from said experience somehow implies a “holier-than-thou attitude,” then so be it. NYC is a leading city in so many respects. Philly needs to follow and leave its PROVINCIAL ways behind. And if that makes some people feel inferior, they obviously need to find better ways of affirming their ego than deriving their sense of pride on where they reside, which is exactly the kind of provincial quality I see in people here.

By: tips

tips — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:38:38 +0000

If Fishtown is gentrifying, then why do I have to sweep Oxycontin Zombies off my stoop thrice a day? Save it for the FOP Beef N Beer, Sixpack.

By: hipsterscum

hipsterscum — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:38:20 +0000

Also Sugar Town, I live here now… And I still disagree.