What's up with all the Yuppie bashing on this board?

Aren't they too old to be preppies? Doesn't the name come from "prep school?"

----^ good link Livetotravel

It's easy to bash yuppies because it's such a vague term. Yuppies can be any race, any sex, and have a wide age range. As such it's kind of an impotent insult.

Brooklyn Baby Daddy wrote: It's easy to bash yuppies because it's such a vague term. Yuppies can be any race, any sex, and have a wide age range. As such it's kind of an impotent insult.

Good point. Insults must be aimed narrowly at the insultee in order to be effective. So much for calling people idiots, hypocrites, liars, etc., since all of those terms apply to such a broad demographic.

[quote=Livetotravel]Preppies are very much alive and well - it's just that they're old-school Episcopalians - they hang out a lot in the Hamptons - and all the men have affairs because they can't really stand strong women - they come mostly in blond - sort of a spoiled cousin of Yuppies - here's a family of Preppies pre-divorce...



That picture looks like a typical Sunday afternoon on my block to me. In my most prized fantasy however, from there they will enter their Audi station wagon, and accidentally drive off the end of Montauk.

booklaw wrote: I don't think they're preppies. If I'm not mistaken, the woman is wearing a denim jacket. As I understand it (I am not myself a preppie), preppies would not be caught dead in denim.

I think the fundamental problem we're having is that, all connotations aside, most all of the posters on this board are dyed-in-the-wool "yuppies," and therefore have trouble seeing themselves from the outside looking in. It happens to most groups of people.

Of course, were one to ask any other type of New Yorker whether Park Slope is full of yuppies, they would look at you like you were asking if Times Square is full of tourists. Remain within the "yuppie bubble," however, and of course it becomes easy to think that everyone and everything thinks and behaves the way that you do.

I myself an a middle-aged nonmobile (as in I've been in a job I love for many years with no intention to leave anytime soon, not as in I can't move) professional.

Manpie?

Are you saying Brooklyn Heights has Pervies.

Obamanut wrote: I think the fundamental problem we're having is that, all connotations aside, most all of the posters on this board are dyed-in-the-wool "yuppies," and therefore have trouble seeing themselves from the outside looking in. It happens to most groups of people.

I'm sorry, oh God, I'm so sorry. Forgive me. Thank you for making me see the evil of my ways. I feel so much better now. Confession is sooooooo good for the soul.

Obamanut wrote: [quote=booklaw]I don't think they're preppies. If I'm not mistaken, the woman is wearing a denim jacket. As I understand it (I am not myself a preppie), preppies would not be caught dead in denim.

I think the fundamental problem we're having is that, all connotations aside, most all of the posters on this board are dyed-in-the-wool "yuppies," and therefore have trouble seeing themselves from the outside looking in. It happens to most groups of people.

Of course, were one to ask any other type of New Yorker whether Park Slope is full of yuppies, they would look at you like you were asking if Times Square is full of tourists. Remain within the "yuppie bubble," however, and of course it becomes easy to think that everyone and everything thinks and behaves the way that you do.
I believe booklaw to be correct regarding the denim. Perhaps they are sucky preps.

And I _love_ "yuppie bubble!" Awesome!

Of course, I live in Crown Heights, so I'm like in the "hardcore bubble" and shit. So fuck all y'all.

But seriously, there is a lot to the "bubble" mentality in all walks of life. Someone should write a book about it. Somebunny probably already has. Without the cute "yuppie bubble" terminology, of course.

booklaw wrote:

Can you imagine?

"Muffie, are those people shooting guns at creatures in the street? My god, are those rats? We had nothing remotely like this at Andover, and I don't think I like it!"

"Muffie" is not a true yuppie name anymore. Nowdays the trend has shifted to Midwest-type names void of any ethnicity: "Emma," "Emily," "Kaitlyn," "Abby," etc.

Ahhh... but all yuppies are not preppies. I submit that preppies did not necessarily wear what the hoi polloi wore... even the relatively affluent, yuppie-type hoi polloi...

I beg to differ that looks like hippie gear -I should know, I lived in a hippie town (yet was not one)

booklaw wrote: Ahhh... but all yuppies are not preppies. I submit that preppies did not necessarily wear what the hoi polloi wore... even the relatively affluent, yuppie-type hoi polloi...

http://www.eluxury.com/estore/browse/product_detail.jsp;jsessionid=U35K4W2FBMA54CRDSZAE3NQKEOLDO2NC?id=11872154

http://www.buy.com/prod/preppy-guy-storage-cube-denim/q/loc/63024/203210376.html

http://www.viktorviktoriashop.com/theshop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=67_153_158&products_id=424

seriously, Park Slope is far from hippie. Trust me. Some similar qualities do not equal the same result. You really need to travel more, it might help you stop living and basing your whole existence on the "white plague" :shock: