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Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:00 AM

I'm obsessed with being a hipster

I left my heart in Williamsburg, though I'm secretly a nerd.
By Cary Tennis

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  • Thursday, April 12, 2007 09:11 AM

    Yeah, I hate to break this to some of you....

    ... but terms like "hipster" and "scenester" are meant to be PEJORATIVES. You're not supposed to want to be a hipster any more than you supposed to want to be a poseur or a tool or a douchebag. (These are all to some degree synonymous, by the way.)

    "Hipster" is a term of derision. Hipsters are people you make fun of, not try to emulate.

    —Jason G. Read Jason G.'s other letters

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