It Could Be That . . . Or It Could Also Just Mean That Many In Their 20s And 30s Are Getting Too Fat For Their Skinny Jeans
Guy Trebay, keep your filthy hands off my beer gut:
Too pronounced to be blamed on the slouchy cut of a T-shirt, too modest in size to be termed a proper beer gut, developed too young to come under the heading of a paunch, the Ralph Kramden is everywhere to be seen lately, or at least it is in the vicinity of the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene, the McCarren Park Greenmarket and pretty much any place one is apt to encounter fans of Grizzly Bear.
What the trucker cap and wallet chain were to hipsters of a moment ago, the Kramden is to what my colleague Mike Albo refers to as the “coolios” of now. Leading with a belly is a male privilege of long standing, of course, a symbol of prosperity in most cultures and of freedom from anxieties about body image that have plagued women since Eve.
Grand Unifying Theory about Obama-era contrarianism at the link . . .
Posted: August 13th, 2009 | Filed under: Followed By A Perplexed Stroke Of The Chin