If you haven’t already checked out StuffWhitePeopleLife.com, you might recognize yourself or certain friends in the subculture it describes. (One of my white, San Francisco (#91)-dwelling friends said, “I didn’t buy it until I got to water bottles (#76).” But for author Joey Rubin, it revealed unsettling truths about his dating history:
“I drink too much bottled water (#76). I wear overpriced vintage t-shirts (#84), loved studying abroad (#72) and stand completely still at concerts (#67). I'm a fan of Michel Gondry (#68), Apple products (#40) and Stephen Colbert (#35). I've threatened to move to Canada on more than one occasion (#75). And I don't mind that StuffWhitePeopleLike.com — a blog that lampoons the over-educated yuppies and hipsters who populate the nation's trendy urban centers and mixed-use development zones — pinpoints me with such eerie accuracy, assessing my predilections like a gifted psychic reader. The site is a fairly amusing send-up of the slightly embarrassing, clearly predictable culture I'm a part of.
But the fact that it also describes virtually my entire dating history — that really unHooksexups me. When I moved to New York, I imagined my dating repertoire would reflect the diversity of a Barack Obama rally (#8).”
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