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Down with Grups: Enforced Hegemony of Cool — Brooklynian

Down with Grups: Enforced Hegemony of Cool

dope on the slope
dope on the slope
edited November -1 in Park Slope
Check out this letter to the editor of New York Magazine in response to the "Up with Grups" article:
How ironic that today’s so-called rebels become tomorrow’s fashion police. How quickly the codes of subculture become the tools of yet another kind of Fascist conformity. Woe be to the freethinker who does not look, talk, think, or act like the congenitally cool, or listen to what they listen to, or eat where they eat. And how offensive that such an aggressively enforced hegemony of “cool” could confuse a passion for fashion with that of life. These people can’t tolerate diversity—it’s way too threatening to their rules of cool. It’s no surprise they all live in Bobobama, er, Brooklyn, since subgroups must congregate among the converted in order to survive. The old saying about California applies to Park Slope: “That’s where people who’ve failed at least twice in their life go and reproduce.”
—Leslie Friedman, Manhattan
Show of hands, how many of y'all have failed in life at least twice?

More uninformed commentary at Dope on the Slope.

Comments

  • candicissima
    candicissima
    Haha Bobobama! She's a nutter.
  • laura
    laura

    Subject: Re: Down with Grups: Enforced Hegemony of Cool

    Dope on the Slope wrote: Show of hands, how many of y'all have failed in life at least twice?
    Me! Me!

    I don't think I would trust anyone who hasn't.
  • emily
    emily
    Maybe Manhattan is where people who think they've never failed go to reproduce? :roll:
  • livetotravel
    livetotravel
    Nobody reproduces in Manhattan - people just meet their breeding/parenting mates, migrate to Park Slope where they either adopt Chinese babies or have the next generation of over-indulged biological offspring, then when there are two such children carrying their names, they leave and migrate once again to Maplewood and Montclair, New Jersey having made a cool 1/2 million on their astute purchase of Park Slope property.

    Manhattan is home to childless overachievers - Park Slope is home to overachievers with progeny.
  • drano
    drano
    I wonder if that's the Leslie Friedman I used to know...I could tell some stories. Eh, probably not, there have got to be 60,000 Leslie Friedmans in the New York area.

    Nothing like a mock-significant quote at the end of a letter or article to really make you think.

    Um, but ok, the question at hand.

    I got an F on a report in 8th grade. It was a 10 pager on the evoloution of the dog. I thought I had another week, but no, so I whipped it up in study hall that day. Just made it all up. It didn't fly.

    The first job I ever interviewed for I didn't get.

    Kid - check.
  • jack krohn
    jack krohn
    I once dropped a pass during a pick-up game of football. Another time I accidentally urinated on a toilet seat.
  • dope on the slope
    dope on the slope
    Another time I accidentally urinated on a toilet seat.
    Freud said "there are no accidents."

    So what do you have against toilet seats?

    As for failing, I once misquoted Freud.

    I also had my fly unzipped the entire time I was serving as groomsman for my brother's wedding.

    This is cathartic.
  • kosherdave
    kosherdave

    Subject: Re: Down with Grups: Enforced Hegemony of Cool

    Dope on the Slope wrote:
    The old saying about California applies to Park Slope: “That’s where people who’ve failed at least twice in their life go and reproduce.”
    —Leslie Friedman, Manhattan
    Clearly she's just jealous of Park Slope ;)http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3076
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    I'm guessing leslie hasn't experienced the drop-trou seductive factor of the yummy food at convivium. I'm reasonably certain I'd turn up knocked up if someone took me there and fed me enough prosecco.
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