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"FacebookPinterestGetty Images\n\nHipster (n.): Idiot, usually found in already-gentrifying urban enclaves.\n\nNormcore (n.): Made-up word for dressing (on purpose) like you don't care about your appearance in order to look like so-called \"normal\" people.\n\nNow that we've defined our terms, let's get to dismantling the discussion of what a recent New York magazine story termed \"normcore\" before it becomes even more of a thing. Can you make a trend out of being anti-trend?! I'm surprised these people haven't imploded. (God knows they're thin enough.)\n\nNormcore is someone with way too much free time's way of reducing actual real and working people into a look to be copied and codified. Isn't that cute? He looks tired! And indistinct! It's obnoxious, frankly. As a real and actual working person; a father, a commuter, a middle-class American schlub that shops at the Gap and owns fleece\u2014great for shoveling the driveway!\u2014I'm here to tell you this isn't a look. The logical bottom has been reached, people. There is no way to try to look like a normal person. You either are a normal person or you are not.\n\nIf those of you in Brooklyn coffee shops reading this on free Wi-Fi are still confused, here's a list of the differences between Normcore (invented faux fashion trend) and the real and true Normal Corp (regular working schlubs and parents with real lives).\n\n1. THE NORMCORE DUDE is already over Normcore.\n\nTHE NORMAL CORPSMAN just heard about it.\n\n2. THE NORMCORE DUDE combs thriftshops for cool fleece vests and old Adidas sneakers.\n\nTHE NORMAL CORPSMAN needs to walk the dog and can't figure out what his wife did with his cool fleece vests and old Adidas sneakers.\n\n3. THE NORMCORE DUDE thinks wearing a white T-shirt and jeans is about \"letting go of the need to look distinctive, to make time for something new.\"\n\nTHE NORMAL CORPSMAN knows he looks like shit. But he's saving to pay for the college education of some kid who will someday use his Brown degree to blog about anti-fashion for a job with an annual salary that's less than tuition at a state school.\n\n4. THE NORMCORE DUDE crashes on someone's couch most nights.\n\nTHE NORMAL CORPSMAN bought the couch and carried it up seven flights of stairs for his NYU student daughter.\n\n5. THE NORMCORE DUDE has a blog, a Tumblr, and is on Tindr.\n\nTHE NORMAL CORPSMAN has gout, hemorrhoids, and is on high-cholesterol meds.\n\n6. THE NORMCORE DUDE is thinking about going vegan.\n\nTHE NORMAL CORPSMAN is thinking about leaving his wife for the burger (and the waitress) at Five Guys.\n\n7. THE NORMCORE DUDE once had a job at an art gallery hanging paintings.\n\nTHE NORMAL CORPSMAN occasionally wants to hang himself.\n\n8. THE NORMCORE DUDE rides a bike to the co-op to volunteer.\n\nTHE NORMAL CORPSMAN drives a shitty car to the train station then takes a five hour train to his middle management job so that he can put money away for his kids (who suddenly keep raiding his closet).\n\n9. THE NORMCORE DUDE misses college.\n\nTHE NORMAL CORPSMAN misses sex, his hair, and seeing his feet when he's standing up.\n\n10. THE NORMCORE DUDE needs to call his dad.\n\nTHE NORMAL CORPSMAN is his dad, and forgives him."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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