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21 May 2011, 4:18 pm

It kind of seems like the hipster ideal is to try to find a way to appear to have Asperger's Syndrome and turn it into an edgy fashion statement.

DISCLAIMER: I'm just making a joke about a social demographic that I think is sort of silly. By no means are all autistic people like this, and by no means are all hipsters like this.

-They try to be non-conformist
-They sort of intentionally make themselves into social outcasts
-No one "understands" them
-They don't "understand" anyone else
-They tend to have poor hygiene habits
-They get fascinated with obscure things
-They have "unconventional" dating habits
-Hipster men are not athletic
-They make a serious effort to think about things in ways that most people don't

It's sort of flattering, in a way, that so many people value these characteristics so much that they actually want to be us.



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21 May 2011, 4:29 pm

Shai-hulud wrote:
-They try to be non-conformist
-They sort of intentionally make themselves into social outcasts
-No one "understands" them
-They don't "understand" anyone else
-They tend to have poor hygiene habits
-They get fascinated with obscure things
-They have "unconventional" dating habits
-Hipster men are not athletic
-They make a serious effort to think about things in ways that most people don't


in my day we called it 'teenager'



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21 May 2011, 4:48 pm

OneStepBeyond wrote:
Shai-hulud wrote:
-They try to be non-conformist
-They sort of intentionally make themselves into social outcasts
-No one "understands" them
-They don't "understand" anyone else
-They tend to have poor hygiene habits
-They get fascinated with obscure things
-They have "unconventional" dating habits
-Hipster men are not athletic
-They make a serious effort to think about things in ways that most people don't


in my day we called it 'teenager'


lol Same here.


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21 May 2011, 5:33 pm

This post I'm about to make might be considered ironic to some, considering my avatar, but...


...if non-conformity is a hipster ideal, then why is it that they all pretty much dress and act the same? I have nothing against hipsters - I actually really like their clothing - but I see non-conformity as an individual ambition. Hipsters are basically a subgroup of people who look, act, and think roughly the same (just like any other subgroup), and that is not non-conformity.


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21 May 2011, 5:47 pm

I haven't heard of hipsters, I thought they might be oversized knickers at first...

But I agree with Descartes. Aspies don't conform or try to be members of a group. They do not choose non conformism, it is by 'design'. To choose non conformism is thus to be unAspielike. (not a word, I know).



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21 May 2011, 5:48 pm

Descartes wrote:
This post I'm about to make might be considered ironic to some, considering my avatar, but...


...if non-conformity is a hipster ideal, then why is it that they all pretty much dress and act the same? I have nothing against hipsters - I actually really like their clothing - but I see non-conformity as an individual ambition. Hipsters are basically a subgroup of people who look, act, and think roughly the same (just like any other subgroup), and that is not non-conformity.


I agree and have always found that amusing about teen sub-cultures- the way they're always about being unique and different yet really they're all just being the same as each other. It's more like mimicing being unique, because that's what it's seen as cool to be, rather than actually being unique.



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21 May 2011, 5:49 pm

I'm kind of attracted to hipsters & I think some of those girls look really cute


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22 May 2011, 1:48 am

I find it interesting that virtually all of the same things that can be said about hipsters also applied to the emos and goths of yesteryear. Maybe it's less of a subculture thing and more of a "teenager" thing in general.



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22 May 2011, 1:59 am

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I find it interesting that virtually all of the same things that can be said about hipsters also applied to the emos and goths of yesteryear. Maybe it's less of a subculture thing and more of a "teenager" thing in general.

Hipster culture is more college students whereas the goths & EMOs are more with high-school kids


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22 May 2011, 3:37 am

Descartes wrote:
This post I'm about to make might be considered ironic to some, considering my avatar, but...


...if non-conformity is a hipster ideal, then why is it that they all pretty much dress and act the same? I have nothing against hipsters - I actually really like their clothing - but I see non-conformity as an individual ambition. Hipsters are basically a subgroup of people who look, act, and think roughly the same (just like any other subgroup), and that is not non-conformity.


I knew a group of kids in high school that considered themselves non-conformists. One of them once accused me of being a conformist because I happened to like a band that was mainstream. It made me laugh, but I don't think he understood exactly why I thought he was amusing.


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22 May 2011, 3:54 am

I think I saw a hipster on the bus yesterday. I thought he looked awful, but it was obviously a carefully put together thing. Bowl haircut, nerdy glasses, red Stussy T-shirt, horrible shorts and blue Converse trainers. He was also quite muscular, which kinda made it even more dissonant.


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22 May 2011, 4:24 am

People trying to be like us reminds me about a bunch of people in a South Park episode trying to be gay.



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22 May 2011, 4:38 am

Speaking of SouthPark & nonconformity. In one ep Stan is trying to form a dance troupe & he ask the goth kids & they say that they don't do dance troupes because their nonconformist & one says that he's such a nonconformist that he won't conform to the rest of em & joins the dance troupe


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22 May 2011, 6:20 am

One of the things I don't like about hipsters is their obsession with being "random" and they shout out the same old words (rawr I'm a dinosaur! Moo chicken! LOL zombies).


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22 May 2011, 9:35 am

Shai-hulud wrote:
-They try to be non-conformist
-They sort of intentionally make themselves into social outcasts
-They don't "understand" anyone else
-They get fascinated with obscure things
-They have "unconventional" dating habits
-not athletic.

Woah, those are all me!



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22 May 2011, 9:49 am

I have to laugh at the idea of "trying to be a non-conformist" - wouldn't a deliberate effort automatically make you a conformist?


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