# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 7
**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 18, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/121 "2011-10-18T13:48:14Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I prefer the [old style hipsters](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Swpw9yZ5w). But I agree with your post, hipster hatred is the main sport of hipsters. And then there are the 50s hipsters like Kerouac: [http://movieclips.com/Ymu4-tank-girl-movie-brush-your-teeth/](http://movieclips.com/Ymu4-tank-girl-movie-brush-your-teeth/) ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4bbf92/32.png) [@Heart\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/122 "2011-10-18T13:49:17Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > > [@GovernmentMan](#): > > > > Really? Most teenage girls don’t look and dress like her … > > > > Even without the guitar she looks like she could be a member of an indie pop band. So doesn’t that mean she’s a hipster? > > I don’t think a single person in this thread has bought your Orion that she looks or dresses in any distinctive way. But you’re going to stick with it? Seriously. She looks like literally half the teenage girls I see. I’m guessing her clothes come from [Forever 21](http://www.forever21.com/Product/Category.aspx?br=f21&category=top) and [Target](http://www.target.com/c/women-juniors/-/N-5ouvk). She looks totally ordinary. Whatever the hell “[hipster](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=4&gs_id=d&xhr=t&q=hipster&qe=aGlwcw&qesig=VB5U5CdAH4SFTViD69Gqfg&pkc=AFgZ2tnPWe0Ad8mgWyuXdJnsFN7kkd4S85c6takdKNwZB3nlS0vdfml-iMIqDuBDY9xlLAU26pEcmuWLDLy1IpA6UsqMWuLvtg&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1024&bih=612&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi)” may mean, she ain’t it. Or, I don’t know, maybe she is. And… so? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/123 "2011-10-18T16:53:33Z")
She’s no hipster, she just looks like an ordinary kid. _[These](http://hackneyhipsterhate.tumblr.com/post/827207679/broadway-market-patrol-170710)_ are hipsters (I live here – Hackney, East London, UK – I trip over several quiffs and ironic 80s sunglasses a day, god help me). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/124 "2011-10-18T20:10:16Z")
Again I call for a proper definition, because it seems to me that each country has a different idea of what constitutes a Hipster. Here in Melbourne, Australia, I see a lot of [these](http://stuffhipstershate.tumblr.com/post/142990128/welcome-to-stuff-hipsters-hate-a-collection-of) [guys](http://emmie001.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/hipster2.jpg) around, who are scruffy chic. This is nothing like the UK Hipster who just seem like poorly dressed [bad taste](http://thedabbler.co.uk/2011/08/from-chelsea-punks-to-hackney-hipsters/) [dickheads](http://www.fashion-and-life.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/plaid-hipsters.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/125 "2011-10-18T21:10:03Z")
There is no ‘proper definition.’ A hipster is someone the speaker wishes to dismiss, because clearly they’re only doing whatever it is they happen to doing for image. No one considers themselves a hipster. If they use a term to define themselves, it’s indie or artist or emo or goth or geek or ‘it’s called style’ or whatever. It’s like the way geeks use ‘fanboy.’ No, wait. It’s the way geeks 10 years ago used ‘fanboy.’ (Is it weaboo now? damn hipster geek kids) ‘That other guy who’s you might think is similar to me but they’re doing it for THE WRONG REASONS AND I’M BETTER THAN THEM AND I’M NOT A LOSER!’ This is obviously a completely new phenomenon. Every fashion trend before them was entirely sincere. People wore mullets and giant shoulder pads because they BELIEVED, not out out of conformist non-conformism. – Likewise no style/subculture has ever inspired an arbitrary and overwrought contempt from those not involved in it. It’s really a unique phenomenon, and not in any way exactly like every youth culture ever. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/126 "2011-10-19T05:17:07Z")
A girl with large luminous eyes, perfect skin, lush lips, and an elfin sort of prettiness, who is shy about performing a skill in public but bold enough to do it anyway? A girl who appears to be at the peak of pubescence? A girl who demonstrates physical and personality attributes that activate those primitive buttons that say “protect/possess”? No, guys just don’t dig chicks like that. At all. :rolleyes: If you think 98% of heterosexual Penile-Americans give a flying fuck about the “hipster” status of an attractive female — much less a _highly_ attractive one, you’re delusional, gay, metrosexual (i.e. “all of my primal drives have been subsumed into consumerism and ‘lifetsyle’ wankery”) or possibly female, but not a sane female; the sort that has weird fantasies that all men want to rape women, or who lives with 37 cats she named things like “Woogums” and “Fwuffy-Wuffy”…and those aren’t nicknames, they’re the actual names. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/127 "2011-10-19T05:29:32Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > She’s no hipster, she just looks like an ordinary kid. _[These](http://hackneyhipsterhate.tumblr.com/post/827207679/broadway-market-patrol-170710)_ are hipsters (I live here – Hackney, East London, UK – I trip over several quiffs and ironic 80s sunglasses a day, god help me). More London hipster spotting: [Being A Dickhead’s Cool](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I). ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/128 "2011-10-19T05:37:28Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > She’s no hipster, she just looks like an ordinary kid. _[These](http://hackneyhipsterhate.tumblr.com/post/827207679/broadway-market-patrol-170710)_ are hipsters (I live here – Hackney, East London, UK – I trip over several quiffs and ironic 80s sunglasses a day, god help me). Ordinary kid? No way Those are just the extreme hipsters. I’ve seen people with similar tastes in media but have a more toned down but still artsy / indie look like this girl. Not every hipster looks outlandish like those pics. Isn’t Zooey Deschanel a hipster? She doesn’t dress like those London guys either ---
**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 19, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/129 "2011-10-19T05:44:14Z")
It could be that these are not ordinary kids, or it could be that you are not an ordinary kid. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/130 "2011-10-19T05:50:31Z")
I am feeling particularly spiteful right now before I head off to bed and was thinking we should launch some sort of campaign to get a nonOP member here a date with that girl. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/131 "2011-10-19T06:11:29Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > has bought your Orion “Bought your Orion?” Is that hipster lingo? Or do you mean the [Ford Orion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Orion), which is so unhip it’s hip. I would totally drive one, but only in an ironic way. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/132 "2011-10-19T06:13:16Z")
> [@Ura-Maru](#): > > There is no ‘proper definition.’ A hipster is someone the speaker wishes to dismiss, because clearly they’re only doing whatever it is they happen to doing for image. No one considers themselves a hipster. If they use a term to define themselves, it’s indie or artist or emo or goth or geek or ‘it’s called style’ or whatever. Pretty much the only kids around here who wouldn’t get hipster levelled at them from someone (probably another hipster 😃 ) are the townie/skanger/chav/neds. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/133 "2011-10-19T16:49:43Z")
> [@GovernmentMan](#): > > Really? Most teenage girls don’t look and dress like her … > > Even without the guitar she looks like she could be a member of an indie pop band. So doesn’t that mean she’s a hipster? Nope. It means that you think she looks like she should be in an indie band. I ascribe no such inherent quality to her. Hell; the only thing I can think of that you might be seeing is that she’s a (to you) hot chick with short hair. That’s not a specifically hipster thing. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/134 "2011-10-24T10:38:45Z")
> [@GovernmentMan](#): > > Ordinary kid? No way Okay, you’re going to have to post a pic of what you think an ordinary teenage girl looks like because you’ve got me totally confused, she really does look ordinary to me. ---
**Author:** ![Aestivalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Aestivalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aestivalis)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/135 "2011-10-24T14:17:25Z")
> [@GovernmentMan](#): > > Ordinary kid? No way > > Those are just the extreme hipsters. I’ve seen people with similar tastes in media but have a more toned down but still artsy / indie look like this girl. > > Not every hipster looks outlandish like those pics. > > Isn’t Zooey Deschanel a hipster? She doesn’t dress like those London guys either Why is it particularly important to be able to label and categorize people into groups? Honestly, do you really have the time to care? So what, she’s an adorable hipster chick (or not); did it change your life to rant about her? Yes, some people find hipsters attractive, and some don’t. Different strokes for different folks. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/136 "2011-10-24T14:31:06Z")
Are parody threads frowned on these days? I’m dying to start a series of “Do you guys like middle manager guys like this?” and “Can you find guys in three piece suits in the small towns of America?” ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/137 "2011-10-24T15:02:13Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > God dammit. You have no idea how much time I just wasted googling weaboo and hipster together. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732/138 "2011-10-24T15:49:52Z")
I don’t get the “hipster” classification but the girl is talented. It’s interesting to see her guitar and singing improve with each of her video posts. > [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > Well he’s out of luck if he’s anywhere near my campfire. Then again it’s Rush songs I’d be singing so maybe I’m more of a geek than a hipster. > > My lack of concern backs up that feeling.😛 We’ve been know to break into an acoustic Red Barchetta or Lakeside Park once in a while.🙂 /sings - _If everyone would gather on the 24th of May…_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-guys-like-hipster-girls-like-these/599732.md?page=6)