• Sex Wars

    Hey, Mr. Mom: Your Wife Wants To Bang Don Draper

    Hey, fey Park Slope stay-at-home dad who's taking care of the kids and cooking dinner because you've been freed from the yoke of oppressive gender roles: your wife wants to fuck a real man! A swarthy, hard-drinking, two-timing, emotionally distant sex hound who's not going to stop in the middle of things and think about whether he packed the kids' lunches properly. Sorry, Park Slope dad; your wife thinks you're a pussy. More »

    11:58 AM on Wed Oct 15 2008
    By Hamilton Nolan
    15,335 views, 204 comments

    Most discussed SinisterRouge: There is a healthy middle ground between pussified Mr Mom and Don Draper. A man can be manly without more »

  • urban anthropology

    Park Slope Baby Ban Should Maybe Extend to Sex Shops

    Babeland, the upscale sex-toy shop that recently opened a branch in strident-mommy nabe Park Slope, is thriving, reports the Observer. Why is this a surprise? Everybody knows that marriage and babies kills sex! But—like the neighborhood's babies-in-bars infestation—the owners have had a bit of a problem with parents who insist on their God-given right to bring their kids everywhere: More »

    3:15 PM on Tue Aug 19 2008
    By Sheila
    8,592 views, 65 comments

    Latest by Muscato: "Soylent" and "crotchfruit" in one string of comments. What good thing have we collectively done to get such snarky goodness? That more »

  • gentrification

    A Black Park Sloper's Thoughts on The Real World Brooklyn

    We stumbled onto the words of an angry, succinct blogger who calls himself Blognigger; he's black and a software engineer and lives in Park Slope. He's at the forefront of several wars: he's black in America, and in a mostly-white neighborhood, which he will soon have to leave: "I make $106,000 a year, and I'm a pauper in Park Slope. No, literally - we have to leave. I have two kids and my rent has just been raised to $3500 a month. I've lived here since 1999 (when 5th avenue was still a total shithole), and now I'm going to have to uproot my family and move out of brooklyn... I can't afford to live here anymore without my wife doing online surveys and shit to supplement our income." But what are his thoughts on the Real World decamping to downtown Brooklyn for their upcoming season?
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    10:20 AM on Tue Jun 3 2008
    By Sheila
    9,460 views, 90 comments

    Latest by GrumpyMcGillicutty: Hahaha, this guy's blog is hilarious. more »

  • stroller derby

    Park Slope Hate Reaching Critical Mass

    So yesterday the Times weighed in on everyone's most detested yuppie mecca, Park Slope. Today, the new issue of Time Out New York piles on! "Websites like Gawker and Curbed crackle with anti-Slope invective, hurled at the twin bugaboos of the 'Stroller Mafia' (pushy, indulgent yuppie parents) and the bleeding-heart 'People’s Republic of Park Slope' (headquartered at the Food Co-op)." Update: Via email from Maureen Shelly: "Hi Ian. I'm the EIC of Time Out Kids. Just wanted to point out that the Park Slope piece you turned up is from last year — not the upcoming June issue. Our piece was also by Lynne Harris, who penned the Times story. I guess she felt she had more to say on the subject." More »

    12:10 PM on Sun May 18 2008
    By ian spiegelman
    4,895 views, 62 comments

    Latest by Jack S: I grew up in Brooklyn, lived on Union Street near 8th Avenue in the early 1990s, and live in Boerum more »

  • Magical Brooklyn

    'NYT' Explores Park Slope Hell

    "To its detractors, Park Slope is both haunt and hatchery of New York’s smuggest limousine-liberal yuppies. It is, if I may further summarize the bad publicity, overrated and hypocritical. Its glorious brownstone blocks and jaunty cafes are awash in carpetbagger entitlement, ruled by snarling 'Stroller Nazis.' The neighborhood is a ground zero of all that is twee and lame. It is, God forbid, the suburbs." Well done. But what do the anonymous blog commenters have to say, New York Times? More »

    9:28 AM on Sat May 17 2008
    By ian spiegelman
    5,263 views, 42 comments

    Latest by notthatpopular: @if_i_only_had_a_heart: So it is ok to be a hypocrite as long as you have a prius in the 3 car more »

  • in bad taste

    Can't Wait For Tomorrow's 'Post' Headline

    Cyanide Death Rocks Park Slope! Yes, it may be a slow news day, but a senior citizen died under mysterious, poison-y circumstances in a posh neighborhood of Brooklyn. With the Pope finally gone, this gives the tabs a pittance of material. [via Gothamist]

    3:54 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
    By rebecca
    1,085 views, 16 comments

    Latest by CopyofBlueboy: ...argh I meant "when" the word 'Post' is in quotations and....stupid, sexy internet. more »

  • we hate your kids

    "Once Your Children Learn How to Google, the Universe Is the Limit"

    An actual letter from an actual Park Slope parent, sent out this afternoon on the "Park Slope Parent" listserv, does all the work for us when making fun of the uptight helicopter anal-retentiveness of this self-fascinated breed! The problem? "My daughter's good friend was at another friend's house for a playdate and the children were left unsupervised in a room with a computer with no software protection on it for inappropriate content... They googled 'naked women and men', were on for quite a while, and you can imagine what they saw (everything, according to the mom, videos and all)." Adds our tipster, "If you Google the search in question, you'll get a Youtube video, a feminist porn site and an essay by Naomi Wolfe." We'll show you the full email and then we'll Google "naked women and men" and "show" you something else! More »

    4:44 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
    By Sheila
    4,508 views, 81 comments

    Latest by slinkimalinki: men also demonstrate what? more »

  • shut up, brooklyn

    Brooklyn Race War Over Yuppie Poodles

    On that bastion of important community issues known as the Brooklynian messageboard, a user named BrownStoneOwner has a question about taking her doggie to Prospect Park: "I noticed recently that whenever I take my frenchie and poodle off the leash in Prospect Park, I get screamed at by people playing soccer or cricket to put them back on the leash. These people are usually very rude and agresssive." But wait, there's more! (As if advertising your brownstone-owning status isn't annoying enough.) Not only are these people rude, but they're also black and Mexican. More »

    4:23 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
    By Sheila
    6,244 views, 85 comments

    Latest by AveryC: It's a troll. Google the word 'poodle', and their icon picture is in the second page of images, so I more »

  • parochial news

    Poll: Do You Srsly Hate Park Slope? Would You Live There?

    All writer Lynn Harris did was ask people on the Brooklynian messageboard why people hate Park Slope, and all that it represents, so much. (She's working on an article for New York.) The brownstone neighborhood used to be cheaper and down-to-earth, with lots of lesbian couples and artistes, but these days it's known for armies of anal-retentive richie moms with their passive-aggressive strollering. The article will "focus not just on WHAT people say they hate about Park Slope, but also WHY the hate seems to have become a meme of its own. Why PS and not other gentrified, Bugaboozled parts of Manhattan? Why has Park Slope become shorthand for all that is evil and twee?" Answer our poll!
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    5:38 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
    By Sheila
    6,213 views, 54 comments

    Latest by lucyzero: Ooh, let's all learn more about Straightgawker and Tom Foolery. I still require additional information to decide who is the better more »