Hello, when did "HIPPIE" become fashionable again?

[Bluebear]

I'm looking at the "We're not sorry" rants and it's like the last 30 years never happened! When did this 'hippie' thing become 'hip' again?

[JohnKleeb]

1. When did it become fashionable again?

When I forgot to cut my hair.

[comsymp]

2. South Park, maybe?

Apparently, its renewed popularity must've overlapped with GlamourShots....

[Bluebear]

5. Is GlamourShots still in business? Were they ever glamourous?

I'm soooooo confused.

[emulatorloo]

13. Apparently early 1960's advertising clip arts isn't sorry either

[Goldmund]

3. I don't know if you should look at werenotsorry.com...

...to find out what's hip.

[Selteri]

4. Wow, if we're hippies again...

Then I better go find a commune to live in and we'd better start protesting since that means we are right just like they were.

[Cleita]

15. There are communes up in the Sierras in Northern California

that are still running. The hippies are all grandparents now but they still follow the lifestyle.

[skylarmae]

6. I think it was when Mary Matlin sang 'Cum-baa-yah' to Asmus

before the election and called all the Kerry supporters HIPPIES. But, I could be wrong....

[sonicx]

7. when did RWers ever stop calling liberals hippies?

[DBoon]

8. The RW wants to void the 1960's

So they are looking back to an era when "hippies" didn't exist (and public facilities were legally segregated, and lynchings were unprosecuted...)

[Bluebear]

10. My thoughts exactly as I posed the question

Everyone is supposed to revert back to the 50's when queers and coloreds knew their place and we liked Ike. :shrug:

[central scrutinizer]

9. saw two bumper stickers recently

"Think Fast, Hippie"

"Visualize your hippie ass finding a job"

[Shoeempress]

17. Were the cars circa 1968 or were they new bumper stickers?

If they are new, perhaps we should explain that the 60's were over 35 years ago.

[The Wielding Truth]

50. Betcha it's a Rovy label. What a creep. He can turn love into a dirty word

[Cleita]

11. Well, I did see a rack of hippie style long skirts for sale

in a store this week. :-)

[ET Awful]

12. I don't know when did it become cool for an unattractive southern madam

to pretend to be patriotic while proudly displaying a flag of treason?

[Bluebear]

16. I bet her pickup truck is just dripping with bumper stickers

and Toby Keith a-blastin' from the K-sett tape.

[Cleita]

18. Isn't it funny that their only real identity is as a "mom".

I mean it's not that special. Any woman can spread their legs and get pregnant.

[Bluebear]

21. I always chuckle about "World's best Mom/Dad" t-shirts

I mean it's sweet in a way, but the store DID sell a couple hundred of them so the title is kind of contested :)

[Cleita]

25. I'm not knocking being a mom, but surely they have to have

more going for them than that. I mean all those freeper types call themselves some kind of mom or the other. It's like giving birth has given them a mandate to lord it over all others.

[Bluebear]

27. Understand your point completely

The biological function is no 'accomplishment', especially for the man, the feat is in raising wonderful kids!

[demnan]

19. Good one

I thought I was the only one who noticed the Confederate flag there!

[StClone]

14. Woodstock Generation maybe...great article/poll

AARP has an interesting article on the rising power of the "Hippie Generation" and dissects its poll concerning others. Where were they this election?

http://www.aarpmagazine.org/people/Articles/a2004-07-20-mag-wakeup.html

[xpunkisneatx]

20. Thats what my fiance calls me...

(he is pro-*)
Frankly, i don't care. The hippies were all about peace, love, and harmony. I don't see how it is a negative label (unless calling us hippies insinuates that we are all big druggies).

So i call him a right wing redneck. Hey, if he is gonna label me, I can sure as hell fight fire with fire.

[Cleita]

23. The real hippies were.

Then there were the ones who jumped in for the drugs, sex and rock n'roll. They were the ones who sponged off of the real hippies. When the fad was over, they all went back to school and became Republicans.

[UdoKier]

22. Yeah, I noticed that.

They also like the "birkenstock-wearing, granola-crunching" stereotype.

It's a pretty vivid illustration of how isolated they are from urban, cosmopolitan America. Their only view of war protesters has been maybe a few seconds here and there on Fox, and you know how they ALWAYS focus on the weirdest people in the crowd they can find.

I eat meat, have short hair, and am pretty conservative in my personal conduct. I just don't believe in butting into the lives of others and telling them how to live, and I don't want them to tell me how to live.

Besides, I'd rather be a "hippie" than a racist bitch with a tacky Glamor Shots photo displaying the flag of treason and racism.

[Inland]

24. Seriously, the culture warriors see this as a fight against the hippies

One idiot syndicated columnist even referred to the sixties protestors as "Clinton hippies", which would make sense only if they believed in time travel or that Clinton---an Oxford trained lawyer and state AG and president--really did have something in common with the guy growing hemp and calling his woman "Moon Goddess".

They can't tell the difference between us.

That woman probably married a guy with hair longer than anybody within fifty miles of a major urban area would tolerate.

[Squeech]

26. Hippies invented the Internet(s)

Winger freeloaders can get the f#@k off my cyber-lawn!

Note: I don't mean Al Gore was a hippie, I mean genuine long-haired barefooted programmer types like Richard Stallman.

[lectrobyte]

28. it's not hip, it's an insult -- R/W radio, and SouthPark

are to blame...

[Bluebear]

29. I'm guessing in her case it's Rush, not SouthPark

Just a guess.

[Contrary1]

30. Being a hippie is...

a state of mind, as far as I am concerned. My outward
appearance may have changed, but that hippie from the
60's still lives within...and always will.

[NJ_Lib]

32. Is this what they mean by "dumb hippies"? :)

[NJ_Lib]

43. Doesn't anybody like this? :(

Dumb fucking hippies huh? hehehe



I thought this was the best... Is it really only me? ... sniff sniff

[Contrary1]

44. Hey...

Where did you get that picture of me? I'm the second from the
right. I'll let you guess which row. Great pic, by the way.

[Bluebear]

45. Missed that, AWESOME hippies!

[mitchtv]

33. Make that 2, Contrary1

As a matter of fact, I never went out of style. Hipness is always "in".

[greekspeak]

31. My what a charming photo

And so original. A confederate flag shaped like a rose. My GOD why have I not thought of this? I could make a FORTUNE! And that fancy, city-slicker font. My god! And the wound of "hippie" may never heal. I guess the glamourous creator of this fabulous work of art has gotten the better of me. Woe is me, Woe is me. Some big haired frumpy Stepford southerner has bested me with her touching, overpowering art. And that use of 4 instead of "for"...that puts this lady right up there with Cicero. What a rhetorical flourish. Why don't we all just move to Alabama now, join the Republican party, and become fundevangelical white trash. <sarcasm off>

[Bluebear]

34. "City slicker font" LMAO

Airbrush chic.

[slappypan]

35. The sad thing is, that woman is only 22 years old.

;)

[NJ_Lib]

37. Not only is she 22... She's also a...

grandmother... :)

[Bluebear]

38. rimshot!

[Contrary1]

40. and probably...

to the same child.

[donheld]

36. I was called a hippy this summer

i felt quite unworthy

[bigtree]

39. I think these posts that re-publish WNS.com photos help freepers

spread their BS.

BTW I've never stopped referring to myself as a hippie. Badge of honor IMO. :hippie:

[Bluebear]

41. I doubt that posting this picture here will win any hearts & minds...

for the freepers. Just my hunch.

[johnnie]

42. I still call myself a hippie

I consider myself someone who is hip to a lot of things and I wear that badge as proud as I do "liberal". As stated above, it's a state of mind and not the way you look.

[Child_Of_Isis]

46. I am a hippie.

Born a hippie, die a hippie. When it became possible to once again wear flared bottom jeans, I actually cried when I put them on. It was like coming home.

[American liberal]

47. Flower Power got co-opted by Target

I recently saw an ad for the kind of clothes I used to wear in the 70s (I was a late-blooming hippy), but they were all new and clean and made in Indonesia! A peasant blouse and bell bottoms with flowers imprinted in the fabric (we actually had to sew OURs on)...I had to do a double take.

[Bluebear]

49. Everything old is new again I guess

I just haven't heard this hippie thing in the lingo, must be a dittohead thang.

[AnIndependentTexan]

48. so do we become hippies again ?

[LOCxHippy]

51. I prefer "counterculture"...

Of all the stereotyped groups of people on the planet, this is the one I identify with.The only reason I used the "x" in my user name is because I have no more use for Zig Zags or bongs...I feel that use of naturally grown, mind altering substances is needed to round out one's hippiedom.(or counterculturedom!)
http://www.hippy.com/mind.htm

Peace, Love and let's impeach Bush
:bounce:

[Bluebear]

52. Meanwhile welcome to DU, LOC!

[Bluebear]

53. Bump for Husband2sparkly :))

[Stinky The Clown]

54. I'm gunna hafta regrow hair and get it cut into a greezy ducktail ........

and go pre-Hippie.

Like ..... Peace and Love, Mahn ..... V