Once upon a time I was a seventeen-year-old perusing Barnes & Noble, when I stumbled upon Josh Aiello's A Field Guide to the Urban Hipster. This book treats hipsters as wild animals to be observed, dividing them into families and then species, and makes comical observances of their plumage, habitat, etc. It was absolutely hysterical at the time.
Today, I picked up the book again and read a few passages. While it's become quite dated, I still found this section on the mating habits of indie rockers funny enough to share:
"Indie Rockers are sexually clumsy creatures. Their mating dance is an intricate yet ineffectual cocktail of lapsed intimacy, misread gestures, arcane trivia, and hero worship. It has been suggested that the species' heightened yet misguided intelligence often proves prohibitive to animalistic urges.
As a rule, Indie Rockers do not date. They fall in love, then break up through an often intense process normally set to particularly pretty and melodic music [e.g., Belle and Sebastian, Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi, etc.]. These hipsters engage in a perpetual cycle of exciting new prospective relationships and awful, devastating breakups."
3 comments:
Oh my. I'm so glad I'm a slutty fag.
As someone who has recently become interested in how the traditional sense of the word "dating" has changed in the past 20 or 30 years, I find that passage particularly interesting. In looking at mating rituals in different subcultures, dating in the hipster subculture is particularly interesting because, from what I have observed from a few friends classified as hipster, girls are typically more aggressive while guys are more passive. Do you have any idea why that is?
Considering that I am in favor of girls being confident and direct about going after something they want, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. It just makes me wonder what about the hipster subculture has caused mating rituals to change so much when traditional gender roles in other groups haven't changed as much.
I think it might be due to the fact that there are just more cute hipster girls than boys. Boys aren't as prone to dress well and whatnot. On top of that these boys are cute and dress well, hipster girls want accessories!
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