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_refugee_ · 4154 days ago · link · · parent · post: Backyard chickens dumped at shelters when hipsters can't cope, critics say - NBC News.com
An excellent post. I too was irritated at the use of "hipster" with "chicken-rearing" and in fact thought it was a lazy use of the term, but reading this has made me think more about the use of the word "hipster" and how it's essentially a denigration of a willingness to be different; originally it was a denigration of a specific type of difference, but at this point it seems to have just boiled down to "it's new and the kids are doing it so it's 'hipster'," even losing what original meaning it had, just becoming a pejorative.