# What do you call the hippy dippy art teacher new age chick drawl? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 26, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646 "2009-05-26T03:18:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zhen\_ka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecccb3/32.png) [@Zhen\_ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zhen_ka)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/41 "2009-05-27T05:36:33Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Well, except that a stereotypically gay voice is specifically feminine; the model for that is obvious. > > What’s the model for this insincere concerned tone? Money, you cunt…if you had any, you’d know.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/42 "2009-05-27T10:01:53Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > They all make everyone they know watch [_What the #$_! Do We (K)now!?\*](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399877/) Practically every time someone comes in asking for that movie, I can guess who recommended it. (Me: “It’s in Documentaries, under Religion/Philosophy, because we don’t have a Bullshit section.”) Don’t they ask for Zeitgiest sometimes? Heh, thanks for making my morning! ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/43 "2009-05-27T11:24:13Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Well, except that a stereotypically gay voice is specifically feminine; the model for that is obvious. > > What’s the model for this insincere concerned tone? Perhaps psychotherapy? My therapist speaks like this. I don’t know if she’s fake or not (I guess I have a hard time picking up on that), but she didn’t sounds like what you guy’s are talking about. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/44 "2009-05-27T11:41:23Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > _Sounds like SOMEbody’s got a case of the Mondays_ [/sticks out bottom lip in pouty fashon] I don’t think that’s the counselor accent, but rather the inflection of [someone like this](http://www.theonion.com/content/columnists/view/teasdale). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/45 "2009-05-27T12:40:07Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > We have a couple of regular customers–middle-aged artsy chicks, patchouli and scarves, long gray hair and dangly filligree earrings, great big beads and little tiny beads but no medium sized beads, homespun shawls tossed diagonally across their shoulder, silver ring on the the thumb–you know, right? I am so turned on right now. What? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/46 "2009-05-27T14:05:26Z")
Somehow, this seems relevant in this thread. There are these bracelets that are all-the-rage-among-the-liberal/progressive-set, that I’ve seen quite a few of my co-workers get. They are made of paper, and look kind of like spitwads that are painted and shellacked, and strung together with thread. They are purportedly made by Nigerian women, who may have been reduced to such circumstance because their husbands can’t get their million of dollars out of the country without the help of email and foreigners like us. Anyway these seem to be the current trend of things you buy to show that you care about the world’s downtrodden. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/47 "2009-05-27T15:33:52Z")
My soon to be sister-in-law talks like that, trust me, it’s not limited to older hippie chicks. I feel like she thinks I’m 5. And mentally challenged. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/48 "2009-05-27T16:28:32Z")
I had a chick like that in college last summer. Same accent, but not a hippie as far as I could tell. She had this long drawn out “hhhmmmmm” and “oooooooooooooooooooookkkkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy” that sounded like she thought I was a retard. I almost asked her out but it was just too off putting so I didn’t. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/49 "2009-05-27T17:33:43Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > I had a chick like that in college last summer. Same accent, but not a hippie as far as I could tell. She had this long drawn out “hhhmmmmm” and “oooooooooooooooooooookkkkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy” that sounded like she thought I was a retard. > > I almost asked her out but it was just too off putting so I didn’t. Some of our more prominent reactionaries have tied the irritating accent to hippie/new age stuff. But others do use it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/50 "2009-05-27T17:40:39Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Yes - middle-aged (got me there) > Partially - artsy chicks (I like artsy things, but I’m not artsy myself) > No - patchouli (ugh, nasty stuff! I don’t use perfumes or scents at all\*) > No - scarves (I don’t own any scarves) > Partially - long gray hair (my hair isn’t yet totally gray, but it is long) > No - dangly filligree earrings (I don’t own any earrings) > No - …beads… (I don’t own any beads) > No - homespun shawls tossed diagonally across their shoulder (no scarves) > No - silver ring on the the thumb (I don’t wear any jewelry at all) > Don’t know - they tilt their head (I’ll have to stay aware to see if I do this) > No - make aggressive eye contact (I have to force myself to make eye contact) > Don’t know - contort their face into a look of monumental concern (I hope not) > NO - “How aaaaaaaaaaare yoooooooou?” (shoot me if I start to sound like this) > No - “Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, it’s Triiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish,” (not named Trish) > No - What the #$\*! Do We (K)now!? (haven’t seen it, have no interest in seeing it) [/SIZE] Let’s call it two out of fifteen, or around 13%. An unimpressive score by almost any measure, but for **Carol** nothing short of a triumph. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/51 "2009-05-27T18:33:39Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > That’s going to fly over the heads of 90% percent of the posters here. 🙂 It did me. What is this Moratorium of which you speak? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/52 "2009-05-27T19:39:57Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Well, except that a stereotypically gay voice is specifically feminine; the model for that is obvious. > > What’s the model for this insincere concerned tone? Sure, it’s more feminine, but it also seems to be involuntary in some instances - for example, I knew a few guys in high school who spoke in the “gay voice” who were definitely in the closet and would not have risked being beaten up (or worse) by consciously speaking in a manner that made them stick out. Anyway, don’t mean to hijack; maybe that’s a topic for a new thread. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/53 "2009-05-28T01:20:32Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > She was killed by a zombie, then possessed by a zombie demon. Buffy finally killed her again with a shovel through the eyes. And there was great rejoicing, throughout the land. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/54 "2009-05-28T03:01:26Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > And they do that extreeemly annoying thing where they try to make everything they say sound like the most important, most emotionally engaged moment of their entire life: they tilt their head, make aggressive eye contact, and contort their face into a look of monumental concern, while drawing out every vowel into a breathy moan of universal awareness: “How aaaaaaaaaaare yoooooooou?” A simple “fine” never suffices, either: No, how aaaaare yooooou _reeeeeally_? I’m contemplating stapling your lips to a truck bumper, now you ask. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/55 "2009-05-28T18:22:51Z")
How did you ALL meet my mother-in-law? > [@](#): > > Contort their face into a look of monumental concern I call it the Empathy Face. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/56 "2009-05-28T19:44:03Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](#): > > What is this Moratorium of which you speak? The [Moratorium](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moratorium_to_End_the_War_in_Vietnam) was a 1969 Vietnam war protest movement. If the post was not just invoking the Moratorium but quoting a movie or something, then it went over my head too. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/57 "2009-05-28T19:56:38Z")
“Oh, you’re such an oooooooooold soul!” Fuck. You. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/58 "2009-05-28T20:54:52Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > “Oh, you’re such an oooooooooold soul!” Get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/59 "2009-05-28T21:41:46Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Get off my lawn! Oh wow, man. Oh wow. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/60 "2009-05-28T23:10:59Z")
Considering that someone else in this thread mentioned that someone could havelearned this speech pattern from a therapist, I’ll say it has its roots in the mental health and “wellness” fields. The affection does seem to say “I caaaaaaare”, even if it’s insincere. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646.md?page=4)