Hot Chicks with Douchbags - Where are the douchebags and douchbagettes from?

[astro]

In looking at the Hot Chicks with Douchebags website one (http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/) thing that generally occurs to me is "Where are these (generally) college age guys (and girls) from? The site features people in the middle of nightclub or party festivities and mocks the leering grins, hand signs and overall appearance.

I see a fair number of college students in the course of my travels and I've never seen a college population where these people were in evidence in any numbers. Occasionally I'll see a beefed up athlete, but a lot of these folks don't even seem to be students. I'm also stunned at the number of 20 something women with breast implants in these photos.

Where are the sub-cultures located that generates these living stereotypes? Are these people actually college students or something else?

[Green Bean]

Good lord, I can't believe I'm about to say this but...a lot of those people look like they come from New Jersey. :smack:

I think they're mostly older than college-age, though. I'd guess mid-twenties. And there seem to be certain clubs that cater to the douchebag demographic.

P.S. My vote goes to the Ab Lobster (http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/2007/12/most-annoying-new-douche-move.html)

[lorene]

Once, in a shameful bout of Googling my former childcare provider (before you get the wrong idea, something very very bad had happened in her house and, even though I had pulled my kids out of there by then, I was obsessed with finding out how much I just did not know), I came across her teenage kids' MySpace pages.

Her kids and their friends (late teens/early 20s) all have references to "Mafia Princess" and "Gangsta" in their profiles, and their pictures would look right at home there.

her sons live in a section of Boston---most of the kids associated with those pages live in Hyde Park, if that area means anything to you.

[elmwood]

Good lord, I can't believe I'm about to say this but...a lot of those people look like they come from New Jersey. :smack:

Not all of them look Italian-American, though, if you're thinking about Guido culture. What is it about New Jersey, anyhow?

[Sleeps With Butterflies]

From the quick glance I gave it, these people seem older than college age to me.

I have to be honest, my friends and I make stupid faces like that when we're mugging for the camera. We do it to be silly, not to look sexy or whatever.

Still, what a weird idea for a website.

PS: The guy under "Wednesday Limerick" is kind of fiiine. If he's a douchebag, I'll take two.

[Shagnasty]

Not all of them look Italian-American, though, if you're thinking about Guido culture. What is it about New Jersey, anyhow?

I noticed some New Jersey spilling over into my monitor as well. To be fair, you can't assume it is New Jersey-itis without a second opinion. Parts of the Philadelphia area produce them and some of the most prized champion stock specimens in the world are bred in Revere, Massachusetts just outside of Boston. It is getting harder to spot them from a distance since the IROC-Z was discontinued.

[Diogenes the Cynic]

I have to admit, those are some amazing douchebags. Jesus, this guy (http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/2008/05/hcwdb-of-week-bra.html) would make Gandhi want to punch him in the face.

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Speaking of Jersey, this is from the FAQ. (http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/FAQ.html)
Q: Aren't all douchebags from Jersey?

A: While the douche force is strong in Jersey, it is not the only typhoid Mary of the Grieco virus. Jersey Douches remain the most obvious of the mockable scumbuckets who continue to molest hotties on a daily basis, and they will always have a home here at HCwDB. But we also explore the secondary and tertiary douche. The tonguebags, the handbags, the cactus heads and yes even the Fratchoads.

[Diogenes the Cynic]

From the quick glance I gave it, these people seem older than college age to me.

I have to be honest, my friends and I make stupid faces like that when we're mugging for the camera. We do it to be silly, not to look sexy or whatever.

Still, what a weird idea for a website.

PS: The guy under "Wednesday Limerick" is kind of fiiine. If he's a douchebag, I'll take two.
The guy pulling his shirt down? Are you serious? All I see is a guy who needs to be stuffed in a dumpster.

[HazelNutCoffee]

Well, quite a few of the guys on that page would look fine if they were wearing different clothes and weren't pointing to their own abs or pretending to hump whatever's next to them.

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Douchebaggery is about attitude, not about looks. The guys miming doggie style on the chicks -- that's all class.

[Sleeps With Butterflies]

The guy pulling his shirt down? Are you serious? All I see is a guy who needs to be stuffed in a dumpster.

That's the one. From what I can see, he's got a young Dermot Mulroney (http://img.blogdecine.com/dermot.jpg) thing going.

Honestly though, the silly posing doesn't bother me much because I could show you a dozen pictures of me being just as silly.

A lot of the comments from that website sound like a lot of bitter jealousy to me ;)

[HazelNutCoffee]

Douchebaggery is about attitude, not about looks.
Yes. I am agreeing with you. :)

I love taking silly pictures. But the guys on that website just look like . . . well, douchebags (and so do a lot of the girls). I fully admit I'm being judgmental here - for all I know they are paragons of virtue with the minds of Einstein and the hearts of Schweitzer. But I doubt it. :p

[bouv]

Man, what DOUCHEBAGS!

I was trying to explain to a couple girls at work why 'popping' your collar makes you a douchebag. The thing is, I couldn't give a reason, other than the fact that it does. I mean...doucebags pop their collars, and if you pop your collar, you're a douchebag. It's one of those weird things that describes itself. For some reason, they actually like popped collars and the guys that have them, but they are otherwise NOT the type of girls you normally see with douchebags! They aren't tanned out, coke heads, or ditzes, or what have you. It's weird, but they just don't seem to get what, exactly, makes a guy a douchebag.

Oh, and since we're on the subject, here is a google image search for douchebag that I found: Damn, that guy's a douche! (http://ithinkimdying.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/douchebag.gif)

And here's a picture of me at a costume party. I came as a douchebag. I also had not seen the previous picture until just five minutes ago, and the similarities are eerie. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/axpauction/douchebag.jpg)

[Renee]

The guy pulling his shirt down? Are you serious? All I see is a guy who needs to be stuffed in a dumpster.


Sorry, no. He's hot. He's screwing around and making a funny face, but he clearly isn't taking himself seriously. A lot of those guys are just normal guys screwing around because they're drinking and having fun and someone's taking their picture. I'm not impressed. :cool:

[Eyebrows 0f Doom]

Holy crap, are these guys for real!?

http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/uploaded_images/Prompa2-745262.jpg

:eek:

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Sorry, no. He's hot. He's screwing around and making a funny face, but he clearly isn't taking himself seriously. A lot of those guys are just normal guys screwing around because they're drinking and having fun and someone's taking their picture. I'm not impressed. :cool:
So THAT'S how women rationalize these A-holes to themselves. You always just tell yourselves that they're not serious. But they are. I can tell.

[Sleeps With Butterflies]

So THAT'S how women rationalize these A-holes to themselves. You always just tell yourselves that they're not serious. But they are. I can tell.

You can tell from one picture? Come on. Being silly can be fun. Taking yourself seriously all the time is douchebaggish in my book. Not YOU because I don't know you, but in general.

I like a guy who doesn't mind looking foolish from time to time.

[Renee]

So THAT'S how women rationalize these A-holes to themselves. You always just tell yourselves that they're not serious. But they are. I can tell.
Most of these photos appear to be taken at a club or a party. How seriously is one supposed to take oneself in such an environment?

[Freudian Slit]

The girls look pretty douchey too, for the record...

[Anastasaeon]

The girls look pretty douchey too, for the record...

Yeah, I'm not seeing the problem, here. Those girls look like they are matched up perfectly with those guys. They all seem to have a lot in common.

I'm not hatin', either. They all look right together.

[Susie Derkins]

Holy crap, are these guys for real!?

http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/uploaded_images/Prompa2-745262.jpg

:eek:

Rare oompah-bag sighting.

[Jpal]

Holy crap, are these guys for real!?

http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/uploaded_images/Prompa2-745262.jpg

:eek:

Yes they are. Visit any club on Staten Island and you will see hordes of douchebags just like that with their tacky girlfriends in tow. Guidos are a plague(I can say that because I'm Italian-American :p )

[Omniscient]

This stuff all stems from the Nightclub Promoter scene. I know them, most are douchebags.

Promoters have their clique of look-at-me-I'm-pretty friends, guys with fake tans, tacky tattoos and uber-trendy outfits. girls with fake boobs, giant stiletto heels, hair extensions and they all have an obsession with being the center of attention. Promoters need these people because they are the types of people that will show up to every "event" and give an impression of it being the hot place to be. They talk about where they were and drag their less-douchey friends along with them propping up the business. Those fake-boobed girls get regular guys to show up to watch, the pretty-boys lure in the young girls looking for someone to buy them drinks and take them home in their Porsche. It's a finely tuned machine.

All these pictures come from the Promoters website. They hire photags to show up and capture the people and the action to promote the next event. These people love attention and love waking up the next day seeing themselves on a website or in a club magazine. To get that attention the dress even more ridiculous and make the stupid faces and poses and the promoter encourages it by selecting those photos for their website.

[gallows fodder]

Man, what DOUCHEBAGS!

I was trying to explain to a couple girls at work why 'popping' your collar makes you a douchebag. The thing is, I couldn't give a reason, other than the fact that it does. I mean...doucebags pop their collars, and if you pop your collar, you're a douchebag. It's one of those weird things that describes itself. For some reason, they actually like popped collars and the guys that have them, but they are otherwise NOT the type of girls you normally see with douchebags! They aren't tanned out, coke heads, or ditzes, or what have you. It's weird, but they just don't seem to get what, exactly, makes a guy a douchebag.

Oh, and since we're on the subject, here is a google image search for douchebag that I found: Damn, that guy's a douche! (http://ithinkimdying.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/douchebag.gif)

And here's a picture of me at a costume party. I came as a douchebag. I also had not seen the previous picture until just five minutes ago, and the similarities are eerie. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/axpauction/douchebag.jpg)
That was awesome.

[msmith537]

her sons live in a section of Boston---most of the kids associated with those pages live in Hyde Park, if that area means anything to you.


I lived in Hyde Park for a year. It's a predominantly working class suburb in Dedham, MA, just south of Boston. I didn't see too many D-bags when I lived there.


When my friends and I had Jersey Shore house, we saw a lot of these dudes:
http://www.njguido.com/

Our favorite bar was DJais (http://www.djais.com/) in Belmar, NJ. The girls always wanted to go to the prepier Parker House in Sea Girt.

Of course we always told ourselves we weren't "those guys". But yeah, when you roll up with half a dozen 24 year old 200+ lb spikey haired Italian and Greek guys wearing tight polo shirts, you pretty much are those guys.

[msmith537]

This stuff all stems from the Nightclub Promoter scene. I know them, most are douchebags.



Yeah. In reality, the people in those clubs are not all as good looking as the people in those photos. But a lot of them are 'roided up douchebags who take themselves way too seriously.

[Duckster]

Is it something in the water that mixes weird with testosterone?

[Cat Fight]

The girls look pretty douchey too, for the record...

Agreed. Most look mildly retarded and are wearing 1991 beauty pageant cast offs.

[Kayeby]

This (http://www.totalpardo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/image5.png) image seems appropriate for the thread.

[psycat90]

I'm definitely going with NJ for a few of them. I had flashbacks of Point Pleasant and Seaside Heights douchebaggery from just looking at those pictures.

[Randy Seltzer]

I have nothing to add except that the OP missed a rare opportunity to use the word douchebaguette in the thread title. (It's either a lady douchebag, or bread you can eat in the shower!)

[Freudian Slit]

I have nothing to add except that the OP missed a rare opportunity to use the word douchebaguette in the thread title. (It's either a lady douchebag, or bread you can eat in the shower!)
Mmmmm, douchebaguette...

[msmith537]

Funny story. I'm driving out to a client site in Long Island with a colleague a few years back. So somehow the topic of "guidos" comes up but he's a Mormon and not from the area so he doesn't really know what I'm talking about. So I explain to him the concept for awhile but I'm not sure he really understands yet.

So anyway, a few hours later, we're in an elevator and this guy walks in. He has the spikey blown back hair, kind of like Daffy Duck after getting shot in the face with Elmer Fudds shotgun. He's got the gold chains, striped purple velvet running pants and some sort of leather jacket. Anyhow, my colleague nudges me and mouths the word "guido?".

[Illuminatiprimus]

I have to admit, those are some amazing douchebags. Jesus, this guy (http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/2008/05/hcwdb-of-week-bra.html) would make Gandhi want to punch him in the face. You see, I think bra is completely hot and would jump him anytime... but that's just me. I agree that the brainless, collagen/silicone saturated hotties do complement the bicep-size-bigger-than-IQ 'roid monsters very well.

I've not been there so don't say so with any experience, but whenever I see pics from that website I always think of Miami.

[An Gadaí]

You are all just jealous. :)

[Illuminatiprimus]

Speaking as someone who has never achieved a tan and as such is far less likely to suffer from skin cancer, I can say quite confidently that I'm not.

Wouldn't mind those abs though...

[Laughing Lagomorph]

I lived in Hyde Park for a year. It's a predominantly working class suburb in Dedham, MA, just south of Boston. I didn't see too many D-bags when I lived there.

....

Hyde Park isn't in Dedham, it is a section of Boston and has been since 1912:

http://www.cityofboston.gov/neighborhoods/neighborhoods.asp?ID=6

[Maeglin]

Most of these photos appear to be taken at a club or a party. How seriously is one supposed to take oneself in such an environment?

These vermin take themselves extremely seriously. This is the crowd that turns out at big-name white clubs in Manhattan on the weekends. Sadly, they are for real.

Once upon a time my wife and I went to see a show at Avalon, formerly Limelight. I knew better than to go, but damn, Infected Mushroom was playing. The club was packed with these fools, trained in from the burbs, bused in from Jersey, and ferried in from Staten.

My wife is a gorgeous Japanese woman and is much better looking and classier than most of the skanks they brought with them, so we spent the whole time telling the d-bags, guidos, and Long Island X dealers that no, she was not going to leave me on the spot. One of them even grabbed her rack on the dance floor. That almost ended badly.

We haven't gone OUT out since, and this was maybe four years ago.

[Larry Mudd]

Mmmmm, douchebaguette...Too yeasty.

[Chimera]

Like others above me, I would venture to say that those females are terminally flawed in their own right and are perfectly suited to the guys they're with. They all deserve each other and are doing the rest of us a favor by not spreading their douchebaggery among the general population.

[Vinyl Turnip]

All these pictures come from the Promoters website. They hire photags to show up and capture the people and the action to promote the next event. These people love attention and love waking up the next day seeing themselves on a website or in a club magazine. To get that attention the dress even more ridiculous and make the stupid faces and poses and the promoter encourages it by selecting those photos for their website.
I don't normally countenance mass extermination, but maybe it's time to at least get a dialogue started...

[threemae]

I cannot understand the vitriol. It's a subculture. No more or less worthy of derision than Ren-Faires or Sci-Fi conventions.

Until they form up into packs to push little old ladies under buses, destroy property, or steal all the napkins at fast food establishments, color me unimpressed.

[Ghanima]

Man, what DOUCHEBAGS!

I was trying to explain to a couple girls at work why 'popping' your collar makes you a douchebag. The thing is, I couldn't give a reason, other than the fact that it does. I mean...doucebags pop their collars, and if you pop your collar, you're a douchebag. It's one of those weird things that describes itself. For some reason, they actually like popped collars and the guys that have them, but they are otherwise NOT the type of girls you normally see with douchebags! They aren't tanned out, coke heads, or ditzes, or what have you. It's weird, but they just don't seem to get what, exactly, makes a guy a douchebag.

Oh, and since we're on the subject, here is a google image search for douchebag that I found: Damn, that guy's a douche! (http://ithinkimdying.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/douchebag.gif)

And here's a picture of me at a costume party. I came as a douchebag. I also had not seen the previous picture until just five minutes ago, and the similarities are eerie. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/axpauction/douchebag.jpg)
Awesome. I laughed like an insane person.

[Maeglin]

I cannot understand the vitriol. It's a subculture. No more or less worthy of derision than Ren-Faires or Sci-Fi conventions.

Until they form up into packs to push little old ladies under buses, destroy property, or steal all the napkins at fast food establishments, color me unimpressed.

And there are ample opportunities to make fun of SCAdians, LARPers, etc. In fact, people who like those sorts of things tend to find themselves already pretty low down on almost any social hierarchy. It is about time that the douchebags, who are very often toxic to people in their proximity, earn their rightful place at the bottom.

[Skara_Brae]

And here's a picture of me at a costume party. I came as a douchebag. I also had not seen the previous picture until just five minutes ago, and the similarities are eerie. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/axpauction/douchebag.jpg)

Was the Miller Lite part of your costume? :p

[Zsofia]

Yeah, I'm not seeing the problem, here. Those girls look like they are matched up perfectly with those guys. They all seem to have a lot in common.

I'm not hatin', either. They all look right together.
I agree. There's a lid for every trash can, as it were.

And trust me, I live in a college town. They're everywhere. Frat guys/sorority girls, and those who used to be and wish they still were. It's kind of an infestation. (Looks a little different in the south, but still quite identifiable.)

[bump]

I cannot understand the vitriol. It's a subculture. No more or less worthy of derision than Ren-Faires or Sci-Fi conventions.


I think to some degree, the vitriol comes from a sort of misguided envy. The little hindbrain in us guys sees these girls, and thinks they're hot, and then sees them cavorting and frolicking with those douche bag guys, and we resent them, because they ARE overly self important, ridiculous, and prissy to the point of making most women look low-maintenance.

Add to that, they usually spend every spare minute not in the club or at work at the gym, and every dime they make on hair, clothes, tanning, cars, etc... which the rest of us don't, which makes us feel like to women, that we look inadequately huge and moneyed relative to these guys.


In other words, normal guys see hot women hanging around with assholes who spend all their cash and spend all their time trying to be "cool", and it discourages us because we want to hang around the hot chicks, and they want to hang around with those assholes, while the rest of us have to hang around with "regular" women.

Of course, wisdom comes with time, and most of us realize that those girls are indeed the female counterparts to those guys, and we really didn't want to do anything other than screw the hot chicks, because we probably couldn't stand being around them.

On the other hand, hot chicks that aren't douchey... oof!


(note: 2/3 of the pictures on that site seem to be the douchebags getting their pictures taken with the hot women hired by the bar or liquor companies to hawk their stuff.... not their girlfriends. How sad is that?)

[Vinyl Turnip]

It's a subculture. No more or less worthy of derision than Ren-Faires or Sci-Fi conventions.
See, now we have a dialogue going! Whom else should we include?

[SmartAleq]

This (http://www.totalpardo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/image5.png) image seems appropriate for the thread.

Man, that is awesome! Dude looks like a cabbage... (http://www.postiv.com/images/GreenCabbage.jpg)

[Bosstone]

This thread is made of win. I'm dying at the blog, at the pictures, at/with bouv...

And in my head, I hear the classic SNL line. "Ladies and gentlemen, Lord and Lady Douchebag!" And I just laugh all the harder.

[Autolycus]

I just graduated from Boston College, and indeed there were many douchebags or douchebags-in-training there. The impact was lesser, but it was there. I didn't hang around them, but they were a common site while walking back from parties.

I'll admit that I'm jealous though. Subtract the douchebaggery from those people and for a lot of them you have extremely hot, fit people.

[nashiitashii]

I remember going to FSU and a good portion of those in social fraternities being douchebags or at least dressing like them. Then again, a large portion of the social sorority population tended toward the douchebaguette end of the spectrum with loads of makeup, fake tan, and stupid looking trendy clothes on emaciated bodies. Getting hit on by douchebags during college was always an adventure, as a lot of them couldn't keep up and I got bored. ::shrugs:: They were, at times, entertaining in that "train wreck" sort of way.

[Illuminatiprimus]

I'll admit that I'm jealous though. Subtract the douchebaggery from those people and for a lot of them you have extremely hot, fit people. Isn't that the issue though? Frequently, very good looking tend to be arse holes because they can be - the world gives you an easier ride if you're pretty, and you are also more likely to be able to make it into the world of "cool".

I'm not going to say that good looks and douchebaggery are synonomous (as there are unattractive douchbags too) but I think there is a statistically significant link.

[FriarTed]

The girls look pretty douchey too, for the record...

I think douches would only improve them.


Let's face it- the males & females in these pics both are what skew the STD statistics. As DB as the guys are, their hot-but-slovenly female draperies are not without major blame. They enable the D-baggery.

[msmith537]

I noticed some New Jersey spilling over into my monitor as well. To be fair, you can't assume it is New Jersey-itis without a second opinion. Parts of the Philadelphia area produce them and some of the most prized champion stock specimens in the world are bred in Revere, Massachusetts just outside of Boston. It is getting harder to spot them from a distance since the IROC-Z was discontinued.


Also, Miami, FL and Orlando, FL have a strong D-bag presence.


I just want to know what these guys do in their day to day jobs. Are they trust fund kids who have nothing better to do than not work and look slick all day? Or do they work real jobs all day and then get all douched up at night?

[bouv]

Was the Miller Lite part of your costume? :p

Actually, yes. I don't normally drink the cheapo beer.

[Offkenter]

I cannot understand the vitriol. It's a subculture. No more or less worthy of derision than Ren-Faires or Sci-Fi conventions.

Until they form up into packs to push little old ladies under buses, destroy property, or steal all the napkins at fast food establishments, color me unimpressed.


Well it HAS been hard to find napkins at the local White Castle . . .

[msmith537]

More examples of douches:
http://www.lookatmystripedshirt.com/characters.asp#LAMSS





Hyde Park isn't in Dedham, it is a section of Boston and has been since 1912:

http://www.cityofboston.gov/neighbo...rhoods.asp?ID=6

So it is. I guess I just assumed it was part of the Town of Dedham because I had to pass through it every day to get to Hyde Park (I lived near the Readville station). It is a geographical and political distinction, not a cultural one. For all intent's and purposes they might as well be a part of the same community.