What's up with all the Yuppie bashing on this board?

Preppies are very much alive and well - it's just that they're old-school Episcopalians - they hang out a lot in the Hamptons - and all the men have affairs because they can't really stand strong women - they come mostly in blond - sort of a spoiled cousin of Yuppies - here's a family of Preppies pre-divorce...

Aren't they too old to be preppies? Doesn't the name come from "prep school?"

Carnivore wrote: Aren't they too old to be preppies? Doesn't the name come from "prep school?"

prep·py or prep·pie
n. pl. prep·pies Informal
1. A student or former student of a preparatory school.
2. A person whose manner and dress are deemed typical of traditional preparatory schools.

And,
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=preppy

----^ good link Livetotravel

kosherdave wrote: ----^ good link Livetotravel

The second definition was hilarious after reading the first definition!

It's easy to bash yuppies because it's such a vague term. Yuppies can be any race, any sex, and have a wide age range. As such it's kind of an impotent insult.

Brooklyn Baby Daddy wrote: It's easy to bash yuppies because it's such a vague term. Yuppies can be any race, any sex, and have a wide age range. As such it's kind of an impotent insult.

We stand appropriately chastised.

Brooklyn Baby Daddy wrote: It's easy to bash yuppies because it's such a vague term. Yuppies can be any race, any sex, and have a wide age range. As such it's kind of an impotent insult.

Good point. Insults must be aimed narrowly at the insultee in order to be effective. So much for calling people idiots, hypocrites, liars, etc., since all of those terms apply to such a broad demographic.

Subject: Re: What's up with all the Yuppie bashing on this board?

sprite wrote: [quote=Obamanut][quote=FourthStreeter]What's up with all the Yuppie bashing on this board?

Because they are fake, phonies, vapid with no soul and culture of their own while at the same time possessing the most overinflated self-opinion known to modern man. <snip>

I personally complain about Soprano-wannabe Italian-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Irish, Blacks, Hasidic Jews, and Chinese all the time. At times in my household it probably sounds like the bathroom scene from "25th Hour" where Ed Norton curses out every ethnic group in New York.

I see, because the true indicator of a soul and culture of one's own is bigotry. Glad you straightened us out on that point!

I complain about my own ethnic group as well, I guess that makes me bigoted against myself?

Typical of a nuevo Park Slope type to throw that word around, especially considering Park Slope is possibly the most subconsciously racist neighborhood on earth.

"But I'm voting for Obama, so I can't be racist!"

[quote=Livetotravel]Preppies are very much alive and well - it's just that they're old-school Episcopalians - they hang out a lot in the Hamptons - and all the men have affairs because they can't really stand strong women - they come mostly in blond - sort of a spoiled cousin of Yuppies - here's a family of Preppies pre-divorce...



That picture looks like a typical Sunday afternoon on my block to me. In my most prized fantasy however, from there they will enter their Audi station wagon, and accidentally drive off the end of Montauk.

I don't think they're preppies. If I'm not mistaken, the woman is wearing a denim jacket. As I understand it (I am not myself a preppie), preppies would not be caught dead in denim.

The poster assumed they were preppies, perhaps because they are blondes. But the absence of lime green pants and pink shirts, together with the presence of denim, suggests otherwise.

booklaw wrote: I don't think they're preppies. If I'm not mistaken, the woman is wearing a denim jacket. As I understand it (I am not myself a preppie), preppies would not be caught dead in denim.

I think the fundamental problem we're having is that, all connotations aside, most all of the posters on this board are dyed-in-the-wool "yuppies," and therefore have trouble seeing themselves from the outside looking in. It happens to most groups of people.

Of course, were one to ask any other type of New Yorker whether Park Slope is full of yuppies, they would look at you like you were asking if Times Square is full of tourists. Remain within the "yuppie bubble," however, and of course it becomes easy to think that everyone and everything thinks and behaves the way that you do.

Carnivore wrote: Aren't they too old to be preppies? Doesn't the name come from "prep school?"

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I believe it came from using Preparation H.

I myself an a middle-aged nonmobile (as in I've been in a job I love for many years with no intention to leave anytime soon, not as in I can't move) professional.

Manpie?

[quote=Livetotravel]

They're not preppies! That's Samantha Biguns, she and my neighbor used to smoke crack in the basement while her husband was trafficking her children Moji and Jepro to pervs in Brooklyn Heights for some dough.

Man, I'm glad they're all cleaned up these days.

Are you saying Brooklyn Heights has Pervies.

I Love yuppies, they help me pay my bills!

Obamanut wrote: I think the fundamental problem we're having is that, all connotations aside, most all of the posters on this board are dyed-in-the-wool "yuppies," and therefore have trouble seeing themselves from the outside looking in. It happens to most groups of people.

I'm sorry, oh God, I'm so sorry. Forgive me. Thank you for making me see the evil of my ways. I feel so much better now. Confession is sooooooo good for the soul.

So what are you Obamanut? What makes you better than the rest of us? You definitely rant like a nuevo Park Sloper and have a great sense of entitlement.

Obamanut wrote: [quote=booklaw]I don't think they're preppies. If I'm not mistaken, the woman is wearing a denim jacket. As I understand it (I am not myself a preppie), preppies would not be caught dead in denim.

I think the fundamental problem we're having is that, all connotations aside, most all of the posters on this board are dyed-in-the-wool "yuppies," and therefore have trouble seeing themselves from the outside looking in. It happens to most groups of people.

Of course, were one to ask any other type of New Yorker whether Park Slope is full of yuppies, they would look at you like you were asking if Times Square is full of tourists. Remain within the "yuppie bubble," however, and of course it becomes easy to think that everyone and everything thinks and behaves the way that you do.
I believe booklaw to be correct regarding the denim. Perhaps they are sucky preps.

And I _love_ "yuppie bubble!" Awesome!

Of course, I live in Crown Heights, so I'm like in the "hardcore bubble" and shit. So fuck all y'all.

But seriously, there is a lot to the "bubble" mentality in all walks of life. Someone should write a book about it. Somebunny probably already has. Without the cute "yuppie bubble" terminology, of course.

I can't help but chuckle when considering how true preppies or yuppies would deal with a comment just made in another thread:

My neighbors were firing them off of the top of their building last night at 4th Ave. and Union. It was the second night in a row. It's definitely more enjoyable than watching them shoot rats with their paintball guns."

Can you imagine?

"Muffie, are those people shooting guns at creatures in the street? My god, are those rats? We had nothing remotely like this at Andover, and I don't think I like it!"

booklaw wrote:

Can you imagine?

"Muffie, are those people shooting guns at creatures in the street? My god, are those rats? We had nothing remotely like this at Andover, and I don't think I like it!"

"Muffie" is not a true yuppie name anymore. Nowdays the trend has shifted to Midwest-type names void of any ethnicity: "Emma," "Emily," "Kaitlyn," "Abby," etc.

Re Yuppies & Denim...

1. " Denim jackets became a fashion statement in the 1950s along with jeans. Throughout the decades, denim continued to gain a wider market. By the 1970s, women were wearing denim as often as men, and denim skirts and dresses could be found in numerous styles. In the 80s, designer jeans were the rage, and a style once associated with the working class was updated for affluent yuppies." http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-denim.htm

2. "Once upon a fashion faux pas, denim was worn strictly by James Dean, farmers or flower children. But during the 1980s, Brooke Shields and her campaign with Calvin Klein changed the way consumers viewed denim. Shields and her tapered-leg jeans made even the most uptight yuppies scramble for a new pair of pants. With celebrity backing, jeans were embraced as high-fashion and accepted as a status symbol."
http://www.ithaca.edu/ithacan/articles/0601/19/accent/0denim_rev.htm

Ahhh... but all yuppies are not preppies. I submit that preppies did not necessarily wear what the hoi polloi wore... even the relatively affluent, yuppie-type hoi polloi...

If you see anyone on the F Train wearing these, odds are overwhelmingly good that they are a yuppie:

I beg to differ that looks like hippie gear -I should know, I lived in a hippie town (yet was not one)

Mamacita wrote: I beg to differ that looks like hippie gear -I should know, I lived in a hippie town (yet was not one)

And there is nothing "hippie" about Park Slope in your opinion? Remember the Food Coop?

Yuppies and hippies are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, many, if not most, nuevo Park Slope residents have one foot in each shoe.

booklaw wrote: Ahhh... but all yuppies are not preppies. I submit that preppies did not necessarily wear what the hoi polloi wore... even the relatively affluent, yuppie-type hoi polloi...

http://www.eluxury.com/estore/browse/product_detail.jsp;jsessionid=U35K4W2FBMA54CRDSZAE3NQKEOLDO2NC?id=11872154

http://www.buy.com/prod/preppy-guy-storage-cube-denim/q/loc/63024/203210376.html

http://www.viktorviktoriashop.com/theshop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=67_153_158&products_id=424

Obamanut wrote: [quote=Mamacita]I beg to differ that looks like hippie gear -I should know, I lived in a hippie town (yet was not one)

And there is nothing "hippie" about Park Slope in your opinion? Remember the Food Coop?

Yuppies and hippies are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, many, if not most, nuevo Park Slope residents have one foot in each shoe.



"Park Slope is an extremely wealthy area in Brooklyn, NY. It's filled with white yuppies and their toddlers and used-to-be hippies and their now stoner teenagers." Urban Dictionary

seriously, Park Slope is far from hippie. Trust me. Some similar qualities do not equal the same result. You really need to travel more, it might help you stop living and basing your whole existence on the "white plague" :shock: