Hipster Daddy Throwdown A Vortex Of Do Not Want - Gawker Comments

Hipster Daddy Throwdown A Vortex Of Do Not Want

Kona — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:54:04 EDT

The whole Brooklyn hipster parenting culture is a big part of the reason that as soon as I found out I was pregnant, I started making arrangements to move from Brooklyn to Jersey City.

Kona

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BalknChain — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:35:10 EDT

Has Gawker gone back in time a few hours? Missing posts..

BalknChain

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4Cats — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:43:35 EDT

Y'all know this is a plot to make the next generation of conservatives, right?

4Cats

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GollyG — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:27:50 EDT

"a friend who has three kids and can't afford to even dream about a nanny" is a friend who does not own a computer and is too busy at, oh, I don't know, one of his JOBS? to have time for web sites about parenting. And, Neal, is not someone you have ever spent time with but have only imagined (badly) for the sake of an argument.

GollyG

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Mediahohoho — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:53:36 EDT

And all the kids committed suicide.

Mediahohoho

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PickleTitsTurner — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:37:38 EDT

News to hipster-alterna-whatever the fuck you call yourself-parents: Youd four year olds don't give a shit about the Zombies, or the Pixies, or whatever else you foist upon them in a sad, narcisisstic attempt to slow the aging process and your growing irrelevance. They just want to pick their noses. Also, FYI: soon they will turn 13 and hate you.

PickleTitsTurner

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minx — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:29:12 EDT

those pictures are worth a thousand words

minx

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lawyergay — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:59:56 EDT

@Hamud: Well said. I encountered my first pasta maker in such a home when I was 9 years old. I was over there playing with my friend one day when his mother--an arty but artless type with a "studio" jammed with easels and looms--insisted on introducing me to their cleaning lady.

lawyergay

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valarmorghulis — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:15:03 EDT

Good evening KMart shoppers, I would like to direct your attention to the parking lot where we are currently hosting a, HIPSTER Fiiiight!

/cartman

valarmorghulis

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UnstableMabel — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:44:36 EDT

Now children, play nicely!

UnstableMabel

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Hamud Ibn Hamud — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:46:42 EDT

As a child of the fearful, conservative immigrant-class, I do not like these fathers. They scare me.

They remind me of the parents of kids I went to school with.

These were "cool" parents who were things like architects or sociology professors, and they'd been on Fulbrights to places like India, and they all smoked a little grass and they always had books about things like over-population and Gestalt therapy sitting around the house.

Despite the apparent open-mindedness of these homes, they were rife with a million tiny protocols and sensitivities that I could never quite apprehend. Their ethos was every bit as tyrannical as that ruling any other sector of the striving middle class.

These were not warm homes. These were not homes in which prevailed a definite sense of unselfconscious ease at simply being.

So it doesn't surprise me that "cool dads" Pollack and Griscom are attacking each other for reasons having everything to do with what the striving middle-class nowadays construes as "good taste."

Hamud Ibn Hamud

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raincoaster — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:15:25 EDT

Butt-reaming and fatherhood?

yor doin it rong.

raincoaster

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EnviousJuno — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:49:33 EDT

You know, Gawker, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car -- hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father.

EnviousJuno

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T.H.H.E._Dog — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:53:24 EDT

The father on the right apparently has dealt with the phenomenon of Baby Poop Splat! Right on his chest? Iwwww!

T.H.H.E._Dog

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downlow — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:09:28 EDT

Keeping with my Texas pride theme of the day, might I suggest this site: [www.rebeldad.com]

I'm not a parent, a man, or a stay-at-home dad, but I do watch the Today show. I've never read this site, though, because (see above) why the hell would I?

downlow

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ObtuseIntolerant — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:08:47 EDT

@SeriesOfTubes: Right.

I have never read it, but, as a mom, he had me at "weird yellow stain with hair clumps behind the toilet". I'm in.

ObtuseIntolerant

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Ed Lister — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:05:10 EDT

What the hell is an Alternadad? Like a gay dad? Am I missing something here? Dads are meant to be gruff, listen to Jethro Tull and smoke unfiltered camels.

Ed Lister

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raincoaster — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:59:40 EDT

Offsprung is fresh and fun; Babble is condescending and prefab. It stinks of marketing plan.

raincoaster

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queenmargereen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:42:05 EDT

Rufus Griscom=sonofa Nina Griscom? How'd he get his foot in the door? Jes'sayin.

queenmargereen

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SeriesOfTubes — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:40:32 EDT

You know, now that I think of it, Offsprung does kind of seem like the Gawker of parenting blogs.

SeriesOfTubes

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rosaluxembourgeoise — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:34:37 EDT

This is so on. Meet you in the playground at 3:30, yuppie.

rosaluxembourgeoise

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KFedsbalzac — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:31:08 EDT

You know though, Pollack was funny, and you all ate him. I mean come on - I'm Friends With A Lower Class Black Woman was funnier than anything we've seen here in years.

KFedsbalzac

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VoxPopuli — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:26:22 EDT

Bob Saget meets muddy David Arquette in a cage match. Great.

VoxPopuli

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SeriesOfTubes — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:02:55 EDT

I confess that I like Offsprung better than Babble, and I actually agree with Pollack's assessment of his own site. Babble DOES feel manufactured, it's not terribly well-written, and if often seems to stoop to shock value. I know it's wrong to like Neal Pollack, but even an execrable hipster can be right sometimes. Right?

SeriesOfTubes

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Saxon 212 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:19:03 EDT

Do hipster parents worry about the clear plastic rain covers on strollers offgasing like the Park Slope cult do?

Saxon 212

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Theda_Bara — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:18:01 EDT

Playground, indeed.

Theda_Bara

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Mike_Jahn — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:06:07 EDT

One mention of the word "lawyer" and the two of them should move to Park Slope and join the PTA.

Mike_Jahn