What do you call the hippy dippy art teacher new age chick drawl?

[Binarydrone]

@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.

[Ogre]

@Bosstone

Sometimes it is possible to spot fake sincerity. Nice hair, by the way.

Uncool.

[Binarydrone]

@Ogre

Uncool.

Context please?

[Ogre]

@Binarydrone

Context please?

Homepage. flonks is bald. Bosstone was trying to make a point about false sincerity.

Ogre, who is also bald.

[flonks]

@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.

[Ogre]

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.

[VarlosZ]

<Bump> on my request for an example or two.

[not_alice]

@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.

[The_Tao_s_Revenge]

@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.

[Bosstone]

@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.

[elmwood]

@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.

[Lemur866]

@VarlosZ

<Bump> on my request for an example or two.

Yeah,…if you guys could provide VarlosZ with an example…that’d be great.

[lissener]

@Lemur866

Yeah,…if you guys could provide VarlosZ with an example…that’d be great.

[elmwood]

Here’s a real-like male version of the inflection.

- YouTube

[flonks]

@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.

[Shot_From_Guns]

@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.

[Student_Driver]

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), 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.”

[VarlosZ]

Okay, thanks, I can grok that. (Saw *Ghost World *when it came out, actually – not great, but I liked it.)

[Johanna]

@elmwood

Here’s a real-like male version of the inflection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVJ8FTWcspQ

That was it, although combined with the “commercial pitchman” inflection also.

[orderfire]

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.