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To: Tublecane
“I love to wear black...I love punk rock...” Where the hell did this come from? What does it have to do with politics, or being “cool” (i.e. popular) for that matter?

I am glad to be of service as your (former) Hipster Gen-X translator.

It comes from the liberal mindset that stereotypes Republican conservatives as flannel & boots wearing rednecks who listen to country music. This just reveals what she has been immersed in, and it's not conservatism. She is strictly about appearances, just like any other liberal.

If Meghan McCain ever dared venture into a mosh pit (yeah right. as if.), she would not emerge without a Doc Marten implanted in her ass. What a poser.

185 posted on 04/20/2009 8:42:29 AM PDT by ponygirl
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To: ponygirl

“It comes from the liberal mindset that stereotypes Republican conservatives as flannel & boots wearing rednecks who listen to country music. This just reveals what she has been immersed in, and it’s not conservatism. She is strictly about appearances, just like any other liberal.”

Yeah, but punk rock is not popular. Hip-hop is the genre of the day. Sure, rock groups sound a little punky these days, and some of them consciously promote that garage band feel. But in reality, its pop music. Not punk.

“I am glad to be of service as your (former) Hipster Gen-X translator.”

I’m technically a Gen-X-er, too, since my parents were baby boomers. I fall very near the end of the generation, so far as these things are measurable. I can faintly recall Nirvana being all the rage. however, when I came of age people like Eminem were all the rage. Gen-X is old news. It’s now Gen-Y, or Gen-Z. Not sure what the difference is, since we all still use computers and play video games. All I know is, whatever hipness punk had in its short life is all but gone now.

By the way, how insulting was it to call it “Gen-X,” as if it stood for nothing or somehow didn’t exist. If that was the case, if we were nonentities, whose fault was it? You raised us, children of the sixties.


209 posted on 04/20/2009 1:45:55 PM PDT by Tublecane
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