[lbo-talk] what are hipsters?

martin mschiller at pobox.com
Mon Jun 14 17:38:25 PDT 2010


On Jun 14, 2010, at 3:53 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:


> inspired by jim straub's comments on facebook, to which i didn't get a satisfactory response: what are hipsters? why were they invented or "big" in 2004 - if they were? why is being a hipster a bad thing?

Apple's dictionary says ... "hipster 1 |ˈhipstər| noun informal a person who follows the latest trends and fashions. DERIVATIVES hipsterism |-ˌrizəm| noun ORIGIN 1940s (used originally as an equivalent term to hepcat ): from hip 3 + -ster .



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