# Do you guys like hipster girls like these? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 15, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732 "2011-10-15T13:11:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/21 "2011-10-15T15:08:14Z")
> [@Ludy](#): > > What is with all the hipster hate? Yeah, this is the second thread **GovernmentMan** has started recently about hipsters. I get the feeling there’s some agenda here that hasn’t been revealed yet. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/22 "2011-10-15T15:11:46Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > Yeah, this is the second thread **GovernmentMan** has started recently about hipsters. I get the feeling there’s some agenda here that hasn’t been revealed yet. He seems pretty bad at identifying real hipstery stuff, though. ---
**Author:** ![MobiusStripes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@MobiusStripes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MobiusStripes)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/23 "2011-10-15T15:12:10Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > I think the whole “hipster” thing is _showing off_ how you like those things to anyone within range. not simply liking those things. So, pretty much anyone who posts a video on YouTube? 🙂 P.S. It strikes me that Hipster Kitten would be an interesting band name, esp for a non-hipster group (whatever that is) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/24 "2011-10-15T15:19:07Z")
Yet another Canadian hipster – you can just tell, especially by his choice of music: [Stephen Harper sings Beatles song with Yo Yo Ma - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOt2Qp0H9G8) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/25 "2011-10-15T15:32:30Z")
I don’t care for them as singers, that’s for sure. They have the same homogenized, emotionally dead “ethereal” voices that every female with a guitar tries to sound like these days. Men, OTOH, always try to sing in a flat emotionally dead tone that’s nearly as bad. Whatever happened to personality? ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/26 "2011-10-15T15:35:05Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Whatever happened to personality? too mainstream. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/27 "2011-10-15T15:35:15Z")
No hipster glasses - ergo, not a hipster. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/28 "2011-10-15T15:39:14Z")
The only guy who wouldn’t like a cute girl with very kissable lips and a great singing voice and the ability to play a guitar is very, very gay. She’s the kind of girl that even a very gay guy might consider going straight for. Only the very, very gay ones could resist. I mean, I’m a very straight girl, but I’d go gay for her. Short answer to your question: yes. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/29 "2011-10-15T15:43:42Z")
Strictly physically: ZOMG she’s HAWT! :eek: She also has a pretty singing voice. But as a total package, I’m not into her. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/30 "2011-10-15T15:47:09Z")
My speakers are broken, which is probably affecting my opinion, but she is an extremely pretty girl. I wouldn’t throw her out of bed for eating crackers. Also, I like all the things “hipsters” supposedly like. Those things are likable and good. What a silly thread. ---
**Author:** ![raskolnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@raskolnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raskolnik)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/31 "2011-10-15T15:53:20Z")
I didn’t see the video, but I’ve slept with women uglier, as I’ve pretty much won the ugly girl contest. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/32 "2011-10-15T16:12:31Z")
I don’t care if she’s a hipster or a toaster; she looks attractive and appears to have an outgoing personality. I like her. I’m also at least thirty years too old to date her. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/33 "2011-10-15T16:46:38Z")
She’s young, beautiful, skinny. What table she sat at during highschool lunch is inconsequential. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/34 "2011-10-15T17:03:11Z")
I’m totally Team Otters. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/35 "2011-10-15T17:06:15Z")
I hope she’s not underage. She’s pretty hot. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/36 "2011-10-15T17:06:54Z")
I’m only ten or fifteen years too old for her ( still too old 😉 ), but otherwise I agree with the consensus. Very pretty and projecting a reasonable degree of adorableness. I’m not crazy about the ethereal folky thing, but it isn’t terribly bothersome either. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/37 "2011-10-15T17:36:26Z")
> [@GovernmentMan](#): > > Sheryl Crow doesn’t look indie hipster. This girl does How does she look like a hipster? Her hair isn’t dyed black and choppily cut, and she’s not even wearing a decorative yet not functional scarf. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/38 "2011-10-15T17:51:55Z")
See, when you said “hipster” I was thinking something more along the lines of: -wears hipster glasses -wears a t-shirt printed with some sarcastic, smart-ass statement -has dark hair–either styled in some retro way or short and boyish -is of normal weight or perhaps a little chubby -maybe just a tad androgynous (i.e., not “cute”) The girl in that video meets none of these cliches. Maybe I just don’t know the lingo anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/39 "2011-10-15T18:22:48Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > Yeah, this is the second thread **GovernmentMan** has started recently about hipsters. I get the feeling there’s some agenda here that hasn’t been revealed yet. > [@](#): > > _Because something is happening here > But you don’t know what it is > Do you, Mister Jones?_ (That’s not _you_ I’m talking about–but the OP.) The history of “hip” goes back to the early 20th century–but we don’t really know the original source. In the 1940’s, there were [hipsters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(1940s_subculture)). Then there were the [hippies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie). Now–a new set of [hipsters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture))! The Beats & beatniks were running concurrently… (Of course, most of these definitions were invented by people outside those groups; except for the Beats, perhaps.) _My_ image of Hipsters was formed by [guys like these.](http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/keenan/b1965-6.html) _(See above quotation.)_ Hipsters like [banjos](http://www.wvculture.org/agency/images/VG2002_4659.jpg)? (A pretty good random pick, since “hip” does have African-American roots; that particular hipster hails from [West Virginia](http://www.wvculture.org/agency/press/vandalia03.html).) [Arts & crafts](http://mamatquilts.blogspot.com/2010/11/famous-people-at-houston-show.html)? Most of the attendees at [Houston’s amazing quilt show](http://www.quilts.com/newHome/shows/viewer.php?page=FallMarket) would not fit the OP’s model. (A few of them will!) The OP should have the courage to like what he likes & stop worrying that somebody else might be having more fun than he is. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/40 "2011-10-15T18:23:14Z")
I mean, if they’re 18+ I would be too shy to confront either of them anyway. The musical talents make them more attractive to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732.md?page=3)