Identity Politics: The politics of whining.
Whining:
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Identity Politics: The politics of whining.
Whining:
Whining: the art of politics
Identity:
A fluid but assertive part of one's self, shaped by internal desires and cultural input, that defines who oneself is for oneself and for others.
Hipster:
Hipster: Just far enough away from mainstream to look stupid.
Mainstream:
The popular but legitimate part of culture that pretentious hipsters and intellectual posers condemn to give themselves a false sense of cultural superiority.
Metrosexual:
Metrosexual: a creature that breeds in the subway.
Election:
You kill me, YesNo.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Election: A method for choosing dictators in the West.
Patrician
Patrician: A person of noble birth, much better in their own eyes than the common man. At one time, patricians that couldn't even read or write and had the manners of a drunken sailor were still considered high quality. Still are, but they are not very popular to the rest of the 1% and looked down upon even by the homeless.
Educated:
Educated: People with student loan debt to pay off.
Close Reading
The examination of a poem through close analysis of metre, rhyme (or lack thereof). and the semantic relations of its imagery...or, in the real world, the steady examining of my wife's glare as she asks me what I did on my boys-weekend-out at Vegas.
Sublime
Sublime: A description of a guy’s experience on a boys’-weekend-without-their-wives in Vegas that could even more accurately describe their wives’ experience while they were gone.
Vegas
The new playground of middle-class to upper middle-class America where Anglo-American puritanism is wantonly exchanged for pre-Counter-Reformation prurience and hedonism.
Masterpiece:
Masterpiece: A sign that something should be avoided like when a movie wins an award at an artsy film festival.
Artsy
An "art work" where the artist spent three times as much time trying to appear artistic as he or she tried to actually make a work of art.
Religious
Religious: Having a zeal to worship God, Gods, Nature, Old Religion, Idols, or anything else. Being religious is not the same as being a dedicated Christian, Muslim, Hindi, Buddhist, Zen or any other recognized religion. The person just wants to fit in somewhere.
Hypocrite: