Dear Hipster: Well, I got a sell-out day-job again — having graduated from occupying reclaimed wood seats in North Park avocado toast & fair trade dens of day-time slack — but I just can’t stop the hipster musings. (a) Are millennials, by definition of lifestyle preferences, part hipster? (b) Do hipsters tend to have certain unique names that lend to their hipster-ness? Like, Patterson, or Amelia, or something? — Name Withheld to Protect the Corporation
I shall answer your questions in reverse order, because the two inquiries are, to some extent, intertwined. Although, I would not go so far as to say that one begets the other. Perhaps “mutual interdependence” is the correct, bloodless, scientific term of art to employ here.
Anyways.
Totally unbiased hipster studies have shown that people who name their children Patterson, Admiral, Dillinger, or a similar hipsternym are significantly more likely to be the kind of people who say things like:
“I read Haruki Murakami to her throughout the third trimester”;
“I hope his first word is something ironic”; or
“Even though we’re happily married and we live together, we’re trying coparenting.”
The children of such parents quite naturally develop outsize propensities for non-mainstream style trends as a result of their upbringing. More millennials grew up in households like this than any previous generation. For example, while only 6 percent of Baby Boomers report being fed kale before the age of seven, fully 68 percent of millennial children report at least one parent who imposed a “vegetarian except for bacon” diet on his or her children at some point before the onset of puberty.
As you can see, this combination of temporal and environmental factors has been an important consideration in the flourishing of the hipster at the end of the Subatlantic age, near the close of the Holocene epoch.
Dear Hipster: Well, I got a sell-out day-job again — having graduated from occupying reclaimed wood seats in North Park avocado toast & fair trade dens of day-time slack — but I just can’t stop the hipster musings. (a) Are millennials, by definition of lifestyle preferences, part hipster? (b) Do hipsters tend to have certain unique names that lend to their hipster-ness? Like, Patterson, or Amelia, or something? — Name Withheld to Protect the Corporation
I shall answer your questions in reverse order, because the two inquiries are, to some extent, intertwined. Although, I would not go so far as to say that one begets the other. Perhaps “mutual interdependence” is the correct, bloodless, scientific term of art to employ here.
Anyways.
Totally unbiased hipster studies have shown that people who name their children Patterson, Admiral, Dillinger, or a similar hipsternym are significantly more likely to be the kind of people who say things like:
“I read Haruki Murakami to her throughout the third trimester”;
“I hope his first word is something ironic”; or
“Even though we’re happily married and we live together, we’re trying coparenting.”
The children of such parents quite naturally develop outsize propensities for non-mainstream style trends as a result of their upbringing. More millennials grew up in households like this than any previous generation. For example, while only 6 percent of Baby Boomers report being fed kale before the age of seven, fully 68 percent of millennial children report at least one parent who imposed a “vegetarian except for bacon” diet on his or her children at some point before the onset of puberty.
As you can see, this combination of temporal and environmental factors has been an important consideration in the flourishing of the hipster at the end of the Subatlantic age, near the close of the Holocene epoch.
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