Beating a Busted Bugaboo?
Maybe there’s more to the Park Slope stroller mafia debate than points about how it shows how white people are jealous of other white people or assertions that negative stereotypes come from I-don’t-wanna-grow-up hipsters. Maybe, as Lynn Harris posits in yesterday’s Style section, Slope bashing is an elegy for a former New York: Brooklyn was…
Maybe there’s more to the Park Slope stroller mafia debate than points about how it shows how white people are jealous of other white people or assertions that negative stereotypes come from I-don’t-wanna-grow-up hipsters. Maybe, as Lynn Harris posits in yesterday’s Style section, Slope bashing is an elegy for a former New York:
Brooklyn was supposed to be Manhattan’s little burnout brother. When I arrived in New York, Brooklyn was the place you could reliably feel superior to, if you thought about it at all. New Yorkers don’t hate the Upper East Side in the same way because that’s old money, old news. But Brooklyn? There’s the feeling that yuppies in Park Slope are washing away Brooklyn’s grittiness and making it more like Manhattan, said Jose Sanchez, chairman of urban studies at Long Island University, Brooklyn. Brooklyn was supposed to be different. Park Slope, to some, now represents everything that Brooklyn was not supposed to be. That’s why our feelings about Park Slope are linked to our feelings about our entire city: our overpriced, chain-store city run by bankers, socialites and, it seems, mommies. The artists are fleeing and your friends, it seems, have become Park Slope pod people. (And they’re coming for you, too.) It’s starting to feel as if there’s nowhere left to hide. And that if we lose Brooklyn, we lose everything. Though actually, if you could keep hating Park Slope, that would be great. Maybe if it really falls out of favor, I’ll be able to afford to stay.
But maybe all press is good press.
Park Slope: Where Is the Love? [NY Times]
Photo by redxdress.
Urine is also a natural substance.
Uranium is also a natural substance.
sulfur dioxide, copper sulfate and boric acid are all natural substances.
Do they allow H2O also? What about urea (natural fertilizer). Are the plants subjected to CO2 – the horror!
True, the giants have larger feet and thus take fewer steps.
6:10, you totally live in Park Slope, don’t you?
Or Williamsburg.
5:40 if that’s what you gotta believe to get through the day eating your ‘healthy’ foods, then go ahead.
But your blanket dismissal without providing any citation or proof shows your ignorance.
Try reading this, the USDA list of substances allowed in organic farming (incl sulfur dioxide, boric acid (i.e. rat poison) and Copper sulfate), then come back and talk some more garbage:
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5068682&acct=nopgeninfo
Oh, read this too:
http://skepdic.com/organic.html
I don’t think the giants find it annoying at all. Clearly its just the little people that are irked by it.
Then again, maybe calling them in the “middle” of the country is deceptive, much like calling the giant hill in the “middle” of Prospect Park West and Fourth Avenue may be confusing to some small and dim minds.
Actually, like most harsh cruel lands, I believe it has several. They call them mountains, but it’s all the same thing.
Heather, is it a harsh cruel land with giant annoying hill in the middle of it?