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Why it’s cool to be uncool

By Rachel Salas
Published: September 22, 2010

Attention you hair-extension abusing, brand-name wearing, trendy hot-spot outing, expensive car-driving cool kids: it's no longer cool to be cool.

The days of scantily clad clothing with Cosmopolitans in hand at your favorite night club are over. What was once deemed as chic and trendy a la Carrie Bradshaw, is now considered to be like Sex and the City: over and unable to redeem itself (although, lord knows it has tried).

What's in instead? Being a nerd! Under-dressing, listening to obscure music, going to dive bars, playing Jenga, watching old movies, having feelings, reading books and playing video games is the new norm. Hipster has far surpassed the socialite in terms of coolness.

The media has had a field day in shaping what it is to be cool and uncool. How lucky these people are to have so much power over society. And now they are fucking with us by changing our perception of the matter.

Michael Cera is a prime example of dorky-cool displayed at its finest. Remember when men with feelings were considered to be sissies? And I'm putting that in the nicest way possible. Now, being soft-spoken, intellectual, quirky, sweet, musically-inclined and emotional are traits that have become cool for men to display. Women flock to men who are "deep" and see the beauty in life…cool guys, don't scoff. You're irrelevant now.

Ryan Seacrest was a self-proclaimed dork, although some would argue that not much has changed. Either way, this nerd has conquered the media world, one network and radio station at a time. "I was a fat kid that wore orthodontic head gear," Seacrest said. I'm sure all the kids that bullied him in school are now bragging that they shared a dingy water fountain with him in PE class. I would.

Instead of going to a noisy house party and drinking yourself into oblivion, it's cool to go to privately owned coffee shop in a quiet part of town, order a soy milk latte, eat a gluten-free pastry, and play video games on your computer.

And you can forget about watching a Drew Barrymore movie about falling in love and finding happiness. No, no, no. If you walk out of a movie and understand exactly what happened, you're not going to be in the new in-crowd. It's cool to see an independent film with little dialogue, where the emphasis is on character emotion. Ambiguity has taken over.

For decades, nerds have been shown in a negative light. Now, revenge of the nerds is in full-effect. So goodbye, Paris Hilton. Arrevadercci, Heidi Montag and au revoir, Kim Kardashian. See you later, flashy nightclubs and designer clothing. Hello, intelligence and art and welcome back, meaning and kindness, and salutations to everything thoughtful and independent. The rein of cool to be uncool has arrived!



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3 Responses to “Why it’s cool to be uncool”

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