I get it. Hipsters are easy to pick on. It can be tough to look at someone wearing skinny jeans and a keffiyeh and not assume he’s vegan, owns a fixed-gear bike, and refreshes Pitchfork hourly. Such stereotypical hipsters, decried everywhere from Time to Time Out and lampooned regularly on blogs like Hipster Runoff and Look at This Fucking Hipster, are deplorable. They sneer and sardonically bemoan everything you hold dear without standing for anything themselves. They destroy culture. Et cetera. But they also probably don’t really exist.

The hipster archetype is at best a broad generalization and at worst a straw man for people to direct their own insecurities about being “cool.” I mean, come on.

But let’s talk about these people who meet some of the hipster criteria,

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http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/111798-hipster-straw-men/