Do You Dislike Hippies?

[phrenzy]

As A Liberal - I don't know why - I disdain 'Hippies' of most sorts. I don't know why. I'm sure it probably says more about me than them, but I can't help it. They just annoy the hell out of me. They have to be the most unattractive humans to ever walk the face of the earth.

And they are ridiculously self righteous on top of everything else.

BTW - I am 100% liberal but for some reason don't like hippies and know I am not alone in this.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Um, where exactly, do you see "Hippies?"

I don't think I have seen one since about 1978 or so.

[phrenzy]

2. Erm

Burning Man?

[arcane1]

81. um...

going to Burning Man, and complaining about unwashed free-love high people?

:shrug:


something doesn't make sense, bro

[RebelOne]

59. Me neither

I thought they were a vanished race.

[SiobhanClancy]

3. What exactly IS a hippie?

Enquiring minds want to know:)

[ikojo]

4. i'm a Deadhead so if I said I disliked hippies then wouldn't that

be the same as a self hating Jew?

[Rooktoven]

10. I ain't often right--

but I never been wrong
Seldom turns out the way it does in the song

Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places
If You look at it right

Peace.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

21. Sort of a Wharf Rat of a different color?

Right, Mr. August West?

[HEyHEY]

5. Hate em

It's genetic if hippie hatin' was a sport my dad would be a top ranked athlete!

[Lady Freedom]

6. Hate the ppl that brought us Free Love!?!?!?

You're Jokeing?!?!?!

[phrenzy]

7. What good is 'free love'

If it is with dirty, smelly, hairy hippies? GAG - They can KEEP that free love!

[mr_hat]

28. "Don't wash. I am coming."

Reckon Napoleon's Josephine was a hippie?

[Bertha Venation]

61. hippies are dirty & smelly?

I'm not. Hairy -- can't help it. I'm a mammal.

[DarkPhenyx]

8. Hippies rock!

or folk, or new-age, or whatever. :)

Hippies are jsut fine. There are some that are annoying, and some that are so unbelievably centered and together it's frightening.

[Stone Cold]

9. I go to a liberal arts college....

....and I see hippies everyday. You're right, they tend to be unattractive. They annoy me also. And I'm a liberal.

[Blue-Jay]

11. riiiiiight.

When's the last time you met an actual "hippie"?

Don't be fooled by the propoganda, son. What exactly do you consider to be a "hippie"?

[phrenzy]

17. ahaha

Oh come on - no you actually SOUND like a hippie saying that:

(guy smells of patchouli, wearing birkenstocks and wearing tie-die with nasty dreads)

"Heee meeeun! Don't beleeeve what the meeeun tells you meeeun! I'm not a hippie meeeun, that's just propageenduh meeeuhn!"

[Blue-Jay]

32. Don't be a dick

I hate the smell of patchouli (sp?), don't own Birkies, and am clean-cut. Try again, me boyo.

[xJlM]

12. I thought I was one

When i was younger, anyway. I thought hippies were into sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll, plus kicking the shit out of people. A girlfriend informed me, however, that hippies are into peace and love and not kicking the shit out of people. Thankfully, I have grown up quite a bit since those days.

[curse10]

13. God damned hippies!!!!

[quinnox]

14. Same here

I am a liberal who in general doesn't like hippie types. I don't like the tattoos, the smoking of the funny smelling cigs, and the uncleanliness.

[NaMeaHou]

15. How young are you?

"They have to be the most unattractive humans to ever walk the face of the earth."

I imagine you have some image in your mind of unwashed, uneducated neanderthals walking around looking for free love, but that image is as distorted as the information source your head got it from.

Who, exactly, is "ridiculously self righteous?"

If you want to say something, back it up with reasons.

[SiobhanClancy]

19. May be young,but...

he sounds exactly like my grandfather and many other fogies back in the day:)

[dmr]

16. Hippies?

Is there a new version out there?

[madrchsod]

18. far out man...

you`re giving me a bad trip man,like just groove to the music..hey pass the pipe.......

[phrenzy]

23. Oh no meeeuhn!

Don't harsh my mellow meeeuhn!

PS - Ravers are very close to hippies, although they don't tend to look quite as dirty - but they are also annoying in their own way.

Don't get me wrong - I would rather roll around in the mud with hippies than spent one minute in a room with a freeper - but - still I can't help the way I feel.

[NaMeaHou]

25. pppsssstttt

hippies haven't existed for decades. Educate yourself and expand your awareness and think of the big picture - whoops - that sounded dangerously close to hippiesh type thinking.

[nuxvomica]

53. LOL. That sounds more like my conservative boss.

Do hippies really talk about "the big picture"?

[ornotna]

20. Oh! you mean humans

Yeah, they suck.

[raysr]

22. Hippies

You should have seen some of the ones I used to take saunas with back in the 70's, not unattractive at all!

[Name removed]

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[Stone Cold]

26. there's this girl...

...who walks around with legs that are hairier than mine. Although I am all for individuality, that's just plain gross. :puke:

[SiobhanClancy]

29. What does that mean?

just curious..

[JVS]

41. Wooo hoooo Monster Box!

Who can tame this wild beast?

[mac56]

67. Explain that.

nm

[FDRrocks]

27. suck my dreads!

[Droopy]

30. Hippie is a state of mind, not a look.

I have short hair, I'm clean shaven and I don't do drugs, but I consider myself a hippie. It's about peace and love.

[proud patriot]

36. Thank You Droopy

:hi:

[Mikimouse]

44. Some people apparently can't get past the stereotypes

and see what the 'movement' was really all about-tolerance, understanding, and the rage against the establishment (something that we find a great deal of on this site, I might add, so perhaps we are all 'hippies' of one type or another). Peace, Brothers and Sisters!:hippie:

[GreenArrow]

31. "most unattractive humans to ever walk the face of the earth."

pretty is as pretty does.

"Hippies" (what ever that is)in general, tend to be amongst the most inoffensive people on the planet. IMO.

Hippie is more of an attitude as far as I'm concerned, but what turns most people off, I believe, is the fashion aspect of it.

[Stone Cold]

33. I'd have to agree...

....It's the whole fashion aspect of "hippies" that turns me off. The "hippies" of today are the nicest people on the face of this earth.

[liberalmuse]

42. I like that...

to me, unattractive humans can only be judged when they open their mouths. You know what's really sad? My mom could be called physically beautiful, but over the years, she's become one of the 'pub women who starve themselves and think they look good rather than anorexic, pile on the make-up and wear skirts too short and heels too high for women their age. Inside, she's nothing but hollow--there is absolutely nothing there and it's sad. On the other hand, a lady I've 'adopted' as my mom lost her leg, couldn't pass for attractive like my birth mother could and has many health problems, but she's one of the kindest, sweetest, most beautiful women I've ever known. Frankly, I prefer genuine, real people with as little artifice as possible--THAT'S what attracts me most to others. Along that vein, yes, I like people who remind me of the hippies from the '60's and early '70's very much. :)

[Demobrat]

34. I like hippies.

They remind me of my youth.

[proud patriot]

35. Nope my parents are hippies and I'm their love child

I like them fine .

[liberalmuse]

37. On the contrary...

ever since I was very young, I've had an aversion to clean-cut men in business suits carrying briefcases. They give me the creeps. I haven't seen a real hippie since the 70's. Maybe you're mistaking today's redneck with the hippie? You know, the people who still listen to '80's metal, drink beer, smoke weed, don't vote, and sit on the couch watching tv all day until a gunshow comes to town?

[phrenzy]

38. My Parents Were Hippies Too!

Believe me - I did the tour of duty as the son of hippies - I was right smack in the middle of it.

I am not even saying it is a rational dislike - but I find "modern" hippies to be much more annoying than the 'originals' were.

And if any of you people think that there are no more 'hippies' than - umm, well, you should hang out in the bay area sometime.

The way I guess I see it - is, at least the originals were part of a sort of counterculture the current ones are just ALL about getting high meeeuhn and voting for Nader meeeuhn..

[tridim]

39. What the heck is wrong with you people?

I mean, come on! Some of you are actually saying you "hate" certain people because they're less attractive, dress differently, wear Patchouli and wear their hair differently? That's a really f***ed up attitude if you ask me. Call me crazy, but wouldn't it make more sense to judge people by what's inside instead of just looks? I'm sure there are plenty asshole hippies, but I'd bet a dollar that there's a much higher percentage of asshole 'normals' in the world.

This thread is nutty.

[Droopy]

40. Well said, man.

Peace.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

51. My post was going to have the same title, so I'll just thank you instead

Really and truly, what on earth is wrong with some of the folks in this thread? I don't even know where to start, except maybe with the tried-and-true cliche to live and let live.

Anyone on this planet we share should be able to look like a hippie if they want. Or a businessman, or a square, or a cowboy, or a nerd, or Ward Freakin' Cleaver. It just doesn't matter, and it doesn't define who you are (or at least it shouldn't).

I just keep shaking my head and telling myself, incredulously, that this is coming from Democrats. Astounding and pitiful.

[Darranar]

43. You believe the propaganda, don't you?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

45. Hate me, I'm a hippie

don't worry I'm used to it lol.

[grannylib]

49. me too

You may not know it to look at me....
being a "hippie" is about attitude, not appearance...

[Bertha Venation]

62. me too, too

hear, hear, Granny.

[Az]

71. Long hair hippie freak here too

[DieboldMustDie]

46. I haven't seen one in about 30 years.

[dweller]

47. yeah, you are right

it says more about you then you could likely conceive.


peace,
dp

[Vogon_Glory]

48. Hippies? My Gosh, Are There Any Real Ones Left?

I have ambiguous feelings about hippies. Many of hippies were hypocrites insofar as they were supported off their "old ladies" labor, and many of them retained ties to the corporate world or got money from relatives.

The ones I still respect were the ones who made genuine efforts to drop out and make their own way, either through organic farming, handicrafts, their art, or their labor.

Those folks still keeping up the old appearance of being hippy males as often as not seem to be younger males with severe drug and alcohol problems or with genuine mental health problems.

Obviously, hippies have by and large mostly been overwhelmed by the larger, consumption- and status-driven society. Still, it was a marvelous dream that foundered in part because of the larger society, and in part because of the less-appealing parts of human nature.

[HuckleB]

50. Possibly.

One never knows, does one?

;)

[Nikia]

52. I try not to judge people in that way

I suppose that it is common for people to make judgements about certain types of people. This is not a very liberal thing to do. Many people are not a stereotype so you shouldn't treat them as though they are. I suppose you could be referring to people who are trying to be a stereotype. I find those people funny especially when they are trying for a look or attitude that is suppose to be individualistic and counter culture. I try to avoid judging people until I've talked to them for enough time to get a feel for them. There are wonderful people of every "type". Don't discount someone just because they have long hair or dress differently.

[Leftist78]

54. I've always

had a love/hate relationship with hippies. Looking back on what most of the former hippies became in the 80's, it makes me think a lot of them (not all) were hypocrites. They had some pretty cool music though.

As far as the modern pseudo-hippies, I don't really think all that much of them. That new age stuff about "life energy" and all that other crap is as ridiculous as any other kooky-ass weird religious belief. They're on the good side of most political beliefs, but that's about all I'm with them on.

I've always related to the punks more than the hippies, although I wouldn't call myself a punk either.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

55. Essay: The Way of the Hippie

Here are a couple of quotes. I'd recommend reading the rest of the page, as it has some really good stuff.

Link: http://www.hippy.com/hippyway.htm

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.
-Timothy Leary (The Politics of Ecstasy) 1967


So being a hippie is not a matter of dress, behavior, economic status, or social milieu. It is a philosophical approach to life that emphasizes freedom, peace, love and a respect for others and the earth. The way of the hippie never died. There have always been hippies from the first time society laid down rules, to Jesus, to Henry David Thoreau, to John Lennon, to you and me. I believe there’s a little hippy in all of us. It’s just been repressed by our socialization process. We need to find it and cultivate our hippie within. Only then can we reach our true potential.
Skip Stone (author of The Way of the Hippie)

[DisgustipatedinCA]

56. Day Kick

.

[Loonman]

57. They need to shower regularly

Girl hippies need to shave those legs.

Nothing disgusts me more than a girl with hairy legs.

[Iverson]

58. Naw, I dislike sweeping generalizations.

100% liberal, hm?

[Snow]

60. Hypothesis: Hippies were a media invention -

granted, there was a cultural change going on in the (late) 60's and into the 70's, but "hippies" were a way the concervative media came up with to demonize the movement. And actual people claiming to be hippies were more costume-wearers than anything else.

(Phrenzy, are you any relation to WoT Frenzy?)

[vi5]

63. In theory, as a punk I have to.....It's in "the code"...

But in reality I have many hippie friends and agree with hippies on a lot of issue. I also really like the music of the grateful dead.

But it's fun to talk about hating hippies and calling people hippies.

[Bridget Burke]

64. But "Punk" is more than 20 years old....

Depends on what kind of nostalgia you're into.

[vi5]

66. No, not really....

I don't mean punk the fashion template or even a strict musical style. I mean it as believing that music and art and the systems created around that art needs to be confrontational and in a constant state of upheaval. I believe in the "punk" ideal of art provoking extreme reactions. And the fact is that in general Hippies and their music tend to be about happiness and celebration.

[mac56]

69. "Happiness and celebration" -

Can't have any of that, now, can we?

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

[vi5]

74. We can have it, I just think it generates horrible art....

I think all good art comes from turmoil, pain, suffering, and misery. Or at least MOST good art. Or at least any art that I personally enjoy. Even the best music of the hippie period of the late 60's early 70's was the angrier stuff that was the result of all the horrible stuff going on at the time.

[mac56]

76. "I've suffered for my art...

Now it's your turn."

:evilgrin:

[Leftist78]

77. I agree totally

the best art comes from the worst emotions. I always noticed the best songs from the hippie era came from the angriest people (MC5 anyone?).

Not to say that I don't like happy songs, but even Hendrix's best stuff was his boldest. Who could deny the bold "black power" statement of Voodoo Child (Slight Return)?

Compare something like The Clash's London Calling with it's terrifying warning of nuclear holocaust with a weak hippie cop-out song like The Beatles' Revolution. That song with it's warning about being too extreme makes me sick.

"You say you'll change the constitution
Well you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well you know
You better free your mind instead"

Sounds about right for the hippies. The answer isn't to change the oppressive system, but to change yourself instead. Wow maaaaaaan that's deeeeeeeeep. :puke:

As a general rule, Hippies will always be behind Punks in terms of saying what REALLY needs to be said.

flame away hippies!!!!!!! :evilgrin:

[mac56]

78. delete post

:evilgrin:

[Logansquare]

65. There are several in my family

I like 'em way better than the right-wingers in my family, but I'm getting tired of the jars of granola in my Christmas stocking...

[mac56]

68. You hate them for their freedoms.

nm

[Az]

70. Who taught you to hate how you are supposed to look?

Estetics are a learned trait. That is we learn what is acceptable appearance and what is distasteful. We have been taught by the corporations to hate our natural apperance so they can sell us every manner of product to change ourselves. We are taught to contort, twist, slice, and chop our bodies until we conform to a standard set that is unatainable. Its a constant barrage from all points. Its a wonder there are as many hippies around as there are.

[phrenzy]

72. Spoken

Spoken like a true hippie - If I don't like the smell of Patchouli - I must be workin' for
"The man"

[mac56]

73. Soooo....

which easily-generalized group do YOU identify yourself with?

Maybe someone can start another "I hate (fill-in-the-blank)" thread. That'll add to the intelligent discourse, won't it?

Add on edit:

As a liberal - I don't know why - I disdain judgmental dickheads of most sorts. I don't know why. I'm sure it probably says more about me than them, but I can't help it. They just annoy the hell out of me. They have to be the most unattractive humans to ever walk the face of the earth.

And they are ridiculously self righteous on top of everything else.

BTW - I am 100% liberal but for some reason don't like judgmental dickheads and know I am not alone in this.

[Az]

84. Who said you had to like Patchouli

The stuff gives me a headache. None the less this thread was started on the premise that a certain subset of society was somehow distasteful due to appearance. I contend that it is those adhearing to the corporate sense of what we should be struggling to look like that are the problem. Look how you want to look. Be who you want to be. Perhaps even learn to love how you actually look without all the intervention foisted on you by those that would define you.

[VermontDem2004]

75. ............

So what if they are unattractive?(I disagree btw) I didn't know being attractive was a requirement to be accepted actually, wait a minute.. I did, because of the media and society basically tells people they should look a certain way, etc. Oh and they smell bad too! :eyes: I don't like labels but one thing I hate more is when people "hate" a certain group which by his/her defination falls under a label. I don't hate all jews, I don't hate all blacks, I don't hate all "hippies", I don't hate all "metal heads", etc.

[Superfly]

79. The only thing I can't stand

is the smell. What is that, incense? It physically gags me, so I can't be around them for too long.

Other than that, hippies are friends and a good source of C sativa.

[absyntheNsugar]

80. Hippies....

Side notes here....not to be a mean but more of a median...

But of my friends the "hippie" type, who wears birks, tie dies, toured with the Dead, wears patchouli, etc, is one of the most Conervative Ayn Rand Lawyers I know.

And of my Lefty buddies, one of my freinds who is a staunch Socialist with strong Marxist tendencies is about as clean cut as they get. He doesn't wear the name brand stuff - he shops at J. C. Penneys and TJ Maxx for cheap, but conservaitve clothes.

[onebigbadwulf]

82. I don't

appreciate people who don't take showers or who yell at you for eating meat.

Otherwise, I have no problem with them

[arcane1]

83. "hate" of a stereotype is for Freepers

not DUers

[phrenzy]

85. I Believe

I believe the word I used was Dislike

[VermontDem2004]

86. Same difference

"Disliking" a stereotype is for freepers, not liberals.

[Az]

87. And hippies worry you because?

Don't worry about the hippies. We aren't like this for your sake. We simply are living life as we wish to. Know what? We wish nothing more than the same for you.

We don't think we are better than you. We may believe we see influences on your life that you may be unaware of and give voice to that. But trust me we have no interest in trying to enforce our views. Its simply concern for a fellow human being. When you see someone bashing their head against a wall there is just something inside us that makes us want to see if there is anything we can do to help. Maybe they don't know they don't have to bash their head against the wall. If we find out they really like bashing their head against the wall so be it. Everyone gets to pursue happiness how they see fit (as long as they don't hurt someone else (unless of course they ask first)).

[mitchum]

88. No...just their appallingly bad taste

but they are generally well-intentioned people