# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/81 "2009-06-01T17:47:26Z")
> [@flonks](#): > > WTF? Am I the only one having issues with this crap? How come you better know than these people whether they “buy” their own philosophy? > > It seems to me that you project your own thinking into other people’s minds. Just because you don’t believe in a certain philosophy of life that doesn’t mean that nobody can believe in it. Be honest. What sore spot did I just poke? Share how that feeeeeeeeeeels. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/82 "2009-06-01T17:48:57Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Sometimes it is possible to spot fake sincerity. Nice hair, by the way. Uncool. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/83 "2009-06-01T17:51:56Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Uncool. Context please? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/84 "2009-06-01T17:53:59Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > Context please? Homepage. **flonks** is bald. **Bosstone** was trying to make a point about false sincerity. **Ogre** , who is also bald. ---
**Author:** ![flonks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ab097/32.png) [@flonks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flonks)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/85 "2009-06-01T17:54:23Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Nice hair, by the way. What are you talking about? Edit: Oh. Nice. Well, that should show you that I am **NOT** a pony-tail guy, so you did **not** find a sour spot. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/86 "2009-06-01T18:00:59Z")
Re: the above: I admittedly didn’t catch on immediately about **Bosstone** ’s “false sincerity” point. It was quite well made, actually. So I’ll just leave this apology lying around somewhere and hope interested parties find it after I go back to lurking. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/87 "2009-06-01T23:11:30Z")
\ on my request for an example or two. ---
**Author:** ![not\_alice](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_alice/32/7283_2.png) [@not\_alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_alice)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/88 "2009-06-01T23:42:31Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Okay … just got off the phone with my ex-girlfriend, who is a counselor. She told me that most counselors don’t have that affection or drawl as a default, but that she will switch to it if her client is visibly upset or traumatized. It’s something that’s soothing, relaxing, and says “I care” more than a regular voice. However, a good counselor won’t use _only_ that affection. Can you share the educational background of your gf? Mine is PhD Psych, and our social circle is littered with PhD Psychs and Psych D’s and I am having a hard time picturing this stereotype. All of the ones I am familiar with actually DO work with developmentally delayed folks for a living right now, and they still don’t talk that way. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/89 "2009-06-02T00:34:48Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > You’ve obviously never encountered this. I want to live under YOUR rock. (Trish was in last night. After renting that Jodie Foster documentary about homeless women, I kid you not, she stopped, tilted her head, and intoned, with all the conviction of a politician this close to losing an election, “_Be well?_” exactly as if she were saying, “Promise me the grief you’re feeling now for losing your entire family in a terrorist attack won’t lead you to suicide?” I don’t think she saw the humor in my, “No, you!” But she smiled insincerely anyway.) Oh god the phoniness of that upset me so much I want to eat a kitten every time I see this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/90 "2009-06-02T01:01:57Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Homepage. **flonks** is bald. **Bosstone** was trying to make a point about false sincerity. > > **Ogre** , who is also bald. Woah. I didn’t even look at the page. Go me. :smack: I wouldn’t have said that if I’d known, I just grabbed the first thing I thought of. But hey, it worked out anyway. **Bosstone** , in the process of balding. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/91 "2009-06-02T02:19:59Z")
> [@not\_alice](#): > > Can you share the educational background of your gf? Mine is PhD Psych, and our social circle is littered with PhD Psychs and Psych D’s and I am having a hard time picturing this stereotype. BA in Art, Master of Clinical Counseling. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/92 "2009-06-02T02:42:07Z")
> [@VarlosZ](#): > > \ on my request for an example or two. Yeah,…if you guys could provide VarlosZ with an example…that’d be great. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/93 "2009-06-02T03:25:42Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Yeah,…if you guys could provide VarlosZ with an example…that’d be great. 😃 ---
**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:** [June 2, 2009, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/94 "2009-06-02T05:08:24Z")
Here’s a real-like male version of the inflection. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVJ8FTWcspQ) ---
**Author:** ![flonks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ab097/32.png) [@flonks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flonks)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/95 "2009-06-02T14:55:47Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Woah. I didn’t even look at the page. Go me. :smack: I wouldn’t have said that if I’d known, I just grabbed the first thing I thought of. But hey, it worked out anyway. > > **Bosstone** , in the process of balding. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/96 "2009-06-02T15:09:33Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > In college I (using help from wonderful folks on this board) gave an unexpected 5-minute mini-presentation, complete with notes, demolishing the movie, after our hippy dippy psychology prof showed it to the class, complete with a warning that if we were likely to feel threatened by such a movie we didn’t need to watch it. Do you still have your outline/notes? I’d love to read 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/97 "2009-06-02T15:11:54Z")
This is a bit off from some of the descriptions, but the art teacher from “Ghost World” might be a close match for an example… [Here’s part #4 of the movie (which seems to have been uploaded in its entirety)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91GSRmv2ZeA&feature=PlayList&p=22067204D835C139&index=25), which starts off midway through the teacher’s “art film” being shown to a group of students. You get a good feel for her personality in the first minute and a half of the clip. In my experience (thanks to a New Age-y ex-wife), psychic fairs are great places to meet dippy, beaded, patchouli-scented women who have no sense of “personal space.” ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/98 "2009-06-02T15:27:19Z")
Okay, thanks, I can grok that. (Saw \*Ghost World \*when it came out, actually – not great, but I liked it.) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/99 "2009-06-02T15:43:55Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Here’s a real-like male version of the inflection. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVJ8FTWcspQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVJ8FTWcspQ) That was it, although combined with the “commercial pitchman” inflection also. ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646/100 "2009-06-02T20:00:23Z")
Sadly, I call this annoying pseudo-hippie troll my brother’s wife. Every example upthread describes her to a T, especially the boundaries/manipulation points noted by Binarydrone. This particular example is a “Nutrition and Wellness Counselor”, heavy on the “BE WELL” bullshit. My entire family hates her, and we all refer to her as either the Nutri-Hag or her alternate name, Mimi LaDouche. Mimi - because despite all of her deeply caring earth-mama affectations, she really is all about ME ME ME. I realize I’m not helping to identify the origins of this hideous phenomenon, but I consider any opportunity to talk shit about her a wonderful, spiritual, enlightening and precious gift to be fully, deeply experienced. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-the-hippy-dippy-art-teacher-new-age-chick-drawl/497646.md?page=6)