Opinion of Portlandia

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

Garbage television. It's a pretty accurate satirization of the most obnoxious elements of Portland but it isn't funny. It reminds me of people who say things "lul nice glasses u hipster" and think liking Arcade Fire means you have bohemian sensibilities.

SWPL is a pretty stupid term imo. The differences between the youth culture of punk rock or grindcore devotees shares nothing in common with NPR-listeners with teenage kids. It's the equivalent of saying that there is "Black culture" or whatever.

Coffeeshop employee with gauges who goes to art school shares zero things in common with a lawyer who went to UPenn and drives a Volvo. Yet both of these people are SWPL-types because they prefer organic food, are secular and hate Republicans. A somewhat cohesive political demographic? Sure. A cultural group? No.