Here.
Although the title is a reference to the article by Lindy West, it's mostly
about the series "Girls" and how there seems to be no people of color
in it despite being set in Brooklyn, a trend the article points out is
endemic in NYC based shows. I haven't seen "Girls", but I have seen
all the other shows it talks about, and I remember a parallel to
"Girls" running when I was in college in NYC. For a year, I went to
the expensive-beyond-belief College of Arts and Literature at NYU in Manhattan,
living in a dorm on Washington Square Park. There was a show at the time called
"Felicity", that was widely believed to be based on NYU, that
featured very earnest, rich, students, having very earnest, vacuous, ennui
dripped conversations in a mostly white New York City, where everyone wore
preppy clothes.
The
article is very good and I recommend it. About Hipster racism....irony can be a
great way to try to put some faux distance between yourself from what you're
talking about, especially since you can claim to be making very dark,
sarcastic, points and not actually meaning things in a racist way. But, well,
if you aren't actually making some sort of greater point, if you're just being
a dick, it doesn't really get you off the hook. Sometimes a cigar is being
used as a device being used to make a statement about the psychoanalytic
obsession with penises, sometimes it's really just a recapitulation of that
person's oral fixation, if you catch my drift.
*side
note, NYU: high quality education, very, very, expensive, lots of very, very,
wealthy people who attend. I enjoyed my time there immensely, but that's a
story for a different day.
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