So as part of the journalism curriculum, first year students must attend a play. Our whole year went to see Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Segal Centre. This theatre is notoriously attended solely by jewish elders, aka old jewish women with short white hair. Based on this reputation, a few of my friends were teasing me about the fact that they assumed by grandmother would be there. I assured them she wouldn't and told them to stop stereotyping the token jew in the crew.
Well sure enough, the joke was on me. My grandmother called to tell me she too was going to see the play. So when I picked up my friends, I had to admit to them that despite anything and everything I had said earlier that week, my grandmother was front and center in the audience. Not that you could find her among all the other little cute old ladies with white and gray hair sitting next to her.
I was a good granddaughter and went to say hi just before the show started. I ended up meeting half the theatre but its okay cause I love my grandma so I kept a smile on my face as strangers pinched my cheecks.
So a shopping trip to Boston translated into panic trying to find 'cool' outfits to wear attack. My attempt at being stylish was pretty much useless because I wear the same thing everyday. Despite my inability, the people on the streets of Boston showed us their fair share of cool. I wish I had taken notes.
People watching was a very important part of our trip. Throughout the weekend we tried to classify the 'cool' people according to two terms 'hipster' and 'scenester'. Now I am going to do the uncool thing and try to break down the difference between hipsters and scenesters so that you too can stereotype the fashionable people you see on the street. Hipsters According to Urban Dictionary Hipsters: - Listen to bands that you have never heard of and claim to be in a band - Have hairstyles that can only be described as "complicated" but is most likely achieved by a minimum of one week not washing it. - Are probably tattooed. - Maybe gay. - Have a closet full of clothing but wear same three things which are most likely very tight black pants, scarf, and ironic tee-shirt over and over again - Chips off nail polish artfully after $50 manicure. - Addicted to coffee, cigarettes and possibly cocaine. Most IMPORTANTLY: - Hipsters are definitely cooler than you - They always deny being a hipster
According the Hipster Handbook Hipsters: Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool"; a Hipster would instead say "deck." - Possess tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. - Walk among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. - Ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat
- Consciously try to fit into a cultural scene based around a genre of music, art, film or other media. - Will adopt the fashion and habits of people in the scene in an attempt to claim oneself as part of it. - The difference between a scenester and a person who is simply in a culture is originality and sincerity. - Seen as trendy wannabes. -Bring underground scenes into mainstream, which then "packages" the scene and turns it into a trend, ruining it. - Love and idolize their Myspace page - May claim to be hipsters, but they are not.
a play. Our whole year went to see Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Segal Centre. This theatre is notoriously attended solely by jewish elders, aka old jewish women with short white hair. Based on this reputation, a few of my friends were teasing me about the fact that they assumed by grandmother would be there. I assured them she wouldn't and told them to stop stereotyping the token jew in the crew.
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