"The media gang up on a perfectly good word.
With the unsettling feel of a romantic duet by Kanye West and Taylor Swift, The New York Times and Gawker have taken arms against a sea of hipsterism:
'We try hard to shed our old image as stodgy and out of it. Perhaps too hard, sometimes,' began Philip B. Corbett, grand inquisitor for usage at the Times. 'How else to explain our constant invocation of the old/new slang 'hipster'? As a colleague pointed out, we've used it more than 250 times in the past year.'"
Here's a headline I never thought I'd see in Forbes. Something a hipster might appreciate. Yeah, the word "hipster" is probably losing its explanatory power, forced to cover too much ground, but the columnist is right: it isn't going anywhere. If only hipsters themselves were...I remember groaning when The Root published an article on "The Rise of the Black Hipster." White folks can keep that nonsense, seriously.
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