Hipsters? Really?

What is with the hipster label on the young people right now? I listen to and review comedy professionally. Some comedy is great, and some is straight hack.

But no matter where on the scale of humor it is, loads of folks, I'm going to say baby boomers like me and our younger siblings, call people hipsters.

What? My father STILL says the word "hippie" with derision. He hated the hippie culture. He still hates the hippie culture. So do the people in his life.

So is it alright that we, as hippies, or yuppies, or whatever labels the old guard threw at us, then accept the concept of labels? I thought we all sort of agreed that calling people names other than their actual names was wrong?

If the "N word" is unacceptable, saying "Fag" is offensive, and calling a woman a "cunt" or a "dyke" is grounds for severe punishment, how do we call our youth "hipsters" in scorn?

 

I disagree.
the N word and hipster=very different.

we are Generation X,btw.

 

using the word hipster has become hipsterish

I call them faggots tbh, keep it old school

 

@thedawn Thank you and I accept your point.

@shimazu that was great, I laughed in spite of myself.

 

using the word hipster has become hipsterish

I call them faggots tbh, keep it old school

Fucking hilarious shimazu. I've noticed the hipster label being applied to all young people especially in comedy and I think that leads to a lot of confusion.

 

@shim... you are great fun on BL. I laughed again when I read this!!

@weekend... there was a period where every new set I listened to mentioned hipsters. It's starting to sound hack when a comic has a hipster bit.