Women's Studies

Largely a load of superficial misandrist nonsense, dealing out platitudinous drivel about the obvious and obviously false. Taken seriously at Berkeley, but dismissed at decent universities.

'Hey dad, i'm thinking about taking women's studies at university next year.'

'What happened to philosophy, politics and economics, son?'

'Yeah right!...who wants to know about dead white men?!'

'i'll see you at the drive-thru.'

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Harlem Shake

Something else on the internet which gets trended on Twitter by 100 million chronic imbeciles and which I purposely avoid out of a seething contempt.

The wretched and unlettered; Ahh, there's a new viral/meme/craze on the internet. They're calling it the Harlem Shake.

The enlightened: I'm too busy reading Aeschylus, you gimp.

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Weeb

Despite pleas to the contrary, the term weeb is merely the diminutive of weeaboo, a sad specimen of Western European or North American (usually male) who fetishise Japanese pop culture, exhort the wonderful taste of sushi, masturbate over cartoons and listen to childish J -Pop while ignorant of the culture, history and - in some of the saddest cases, geography - of their own countries.

Weeb: You should broaden your horizons and subscribe to Crunchyroll!
Human: You could try reading a book without pictures of pubescent cartoon girls, you filthy weeb. Try listening to music for adults instead of Japanese children.

emo baby

a small child dressed like an emo because their property-obsessed, zinfandel-drinking, Espace-driving, D+G hunting parents think it's cute, and besides, Bethany and Aloysius have brought their child the same miniature reproductions of the designer tat most depressing..ive teens buy, but at forty times the price.

'oh do tell me where little Ozymandis got the Gerard Way 'do'
'i had to have Al Opecia do it. a snip at £260'
'i'll send my little ones there too. he looks quite the emo baby!'
'you know Jocasta, they might even start cutting themselves!'
'YA! YA! *snort*'

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Hipster

One subjected to the corporate, postmodern reheating of the beat culture, following in the footsteps of subcultures such as punk in the reappropriation of earlier cultural artifacts to create a sense of identity and meaning in the neoliberal post-cold war era. It is embraced by a relatively small cross-section of broadly liberal, bourgeois and metropolitain young people, because this group is the advertising industry's target demographic for items of conspicuous consumption. The hipster labours under the illusion of vitality, agency and difference, when all the subculture can aspire to is another iteration of post-industrial, postmodern consumer culture, and one exceedingly more open to co-option, repackaging and branding than punk or hip hop because of a political passivity, and the disposable income of its largely middle-class advocates.
What defines the hipster seems to be merely material, but also pathological introspection and self-consciousness, perhaps amplified by the fragmentation of society in a free market, and the rise of the self-centred 'apsiration' culture of the noughties; one that hipsters often think themselves very much apart from, but very much engage in.

Overall, it is a youth culture borne lifestyle choice rather than any meaningful social struggle and is, with every lenseless spec frame, every thread of distressed denim and bottlecap of Pabst, irrevocably part of what it so petulantly but naively dismisses as mainstream culture.

Anton; Hey, why do hipsters think they're independently-minded and breaking new artistic ground when they look the same and like the same stuff, usually indie music?
Chekov: Yes, their much vaunted cultural awareness creates such a sweet sense of schadenfreude in educated people. The hipster is blissfully unaware that his subculture is very much part of the wider cultural spasm of consumer capitalism expressing itself, and borrows heavily from previous subcultures. His jejune posturing is almost as endearing as that of schoolyard Marxists.

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Hipster

The American and more widespread strain of what was once known as the 'Shoreditch/Hoxton Twat', The 'London Wanker', the Scenester, the Trendy, The Trustafarian, The Urban Hippy, The Dickhead.

Immortalised by the comedy series 'Nathan Barley' and satirical song 'Being A Dickhead's Cool'.

They suffer the Dunning-Kruger effect as they think they're enlightened because they only socialise with sycophantic idiots with exactly the same 'centre-left' opinions on everything, braying and spluttering, and who work in the same industries (if they have ever worked) but are are too stupid to realise how unenlightened and unlettered they are.

Hipster: Yah my favourite book is , like Catcher in the Rye? It really sopeaks to my soul about how everyone is such a phoney.
Adult; What a fucking hipster.

Cunt

The after-dinner refreshment in a gentleman's club or society gathering.

'Geoffrey, I hear the Royal Society held a capital soiree, with the most exquisite selection of cunt. Not too pungent, or sloppy.'

'Indeed, Cavendish. The blonde niece of Barnabus was a particularly delectable morsel; tidy, clipped and with a dash of salty haddock. Father Roland almost wept.'

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