Park Slope Stroller Nazi Story Getting a Little Stale
We’re not exactly sure why this was a front-page article the the NY Times Sunday Real Estate section—seems more like City section material to us—but, there it was, another article making light of the number of strollers (and implicit bourgeois existence of their pushers) in Park Slope. The fact that there are a lot of…
We’re not exactly sure why this was a front-page article the the NY Times Sunday Real Estate section—seems more like City section material to us—but, there it was, another article making light of the number of strollers (and implicit bourgeois existence of their pushers) in Park Slope. The fact that there are a lot of young families (some of whose matriarchs aren’t averse to a little public nursing) in Park Slope just ain’t news anymore, so let’s just settle the fight for the soul of the slope once and for all in the hopes that another article never has to be written on the subject. In the words of The Times article, is Park Slope “Hipster Hell” or “Parent Heaven”? Update: As of 4:30 today, there were 216 votes for Parent Heaven and 158 votes for Hipster Hell.
The Park Slope Parent Trap [NY Times]
Photo by Kansas Liberal
i have sex with myself all the time! but that too, is beside the point! the point is, well, you know what the point is. also, who amongst us isn’t racist and classist? the ones who don’t admit that they are filled with nasty, shadowy, ingrained, prejudicial tendencies, they’re the ones who scare me. also, men, stop wearing sandals!
Poor white, upper middle class people are misunderstood. Boo hoo.
Cry me a river.
Not to sound too McCarthyist, but love it or leave it JM.
If you don’t like things that are grossly American why do you live here?
I wouldn’t move to France if I hated people who smoke and speak French and I wouldn’t move to England if I hated people who swallow consonants and drink.
America is full of “grossly” American people who live green, take care of their 200+ year old houses, live with a high level of culture (albeit perhaps not the European definition of “Culture” with a capital C).
PS Curmudgeon – are you this clueless??? – Where do you think most of this anti-PS stuff comes from, if not class and race? Do you not notice that Park Slope is A) primarily white and B)historically upper middle class – and that the anti-PS sentiments are filled with racial/class stereotypes?
And I am not posting as a representative of “the good people of Park Slope” – I am posting as one individual viewpoint that can see that racial/class stereotypes and hostility are offensive and often illogical, no matter which direction they are being thrown.
Why do you people live in the city if you can’t embrace diversity, and live and let live? If you don’t want to deal with the “spillover” of other people’s lives into your own, why don’t you go live in the suburbs, put a fence around your house, and travel by car? I don’t get it.
i also agree with the commenter who says most people on this thread use convenience to make a point like nobody’s business.
i don’t care either way because i think the term hipster is absolutely asinine, but in most conversations, isn’t this term a derogatory one used for people who are unable to decide what’s cool for themselves but choose to go by what the crowd does?
in that case, why is it so bad that park slope isn’t a hipster heaven? according to most accounts, this should be a good thing, but so many of you now use it in your own defense to say that hipsters would never dare live in park slope.
it’s ridiculous.
I live in BH and I wear sandals, weather permitting. If you don’t like it, please go have sexual relations with yourself. Thanks!
PS Curmedgeon: the post that David was responding to mentioned Bed Stuy (and only Bed Stuy), that’s why David used that neighborhood in his post. And I assume it was intentionally stereotypical as have been many of the posts regarding PS.
you people are so grossly american, it makes me sick. have ANY of you park slope haters ever been outside the U.S.???
to be digusted by seeing a woman’s breast, by living amongst social minded people with a penchant for living green, raising their children in one of the most cultured centers in the world, for living in homes constructed with care over a hundred years ago instead of slapped up with cardboard….these are the things you choose to attack people for???
in my opinion, people who do not find value in what park slope has to offer (whether you’d like to live there or not) are simply not very evolved.
having just come back from a holiday abroad, this conversation is even more sickening than usual…