"Here Comes the Berniebro"

"The Berniebro is not every Bernie Sanders supporter. Sanders’s support skews young, but not particularly male. The Berniebro is male, though. Very male.

The Berniebro is someone you may only have encountered if you’re somewhat similar to him: white; well-educated; middle-class (or, delicately, “upper middle-class”); and aware of NPR podcasts and jangly bearded bands.

The Berniebro might loathe one NPR podcast in particular.

The Berniebro might get into big performative arguments about how feminism saved his life. Or, the Berniebro might always seem like he’s going to say that we need economic equality for all genders but doesn’t actually say it, because he knows that it wouldn’t go over well."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/here-comes-the-berniebro-bernie-sanders/411070/?utm_source=SFFB

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I have a bunch of friends who have talked about economic inequality for a long time who are super excited about Bernie Sanders. But I also see this thing where Bernie is the exact perfect candidate for hipsterism, for a surface-level attraction to the whole aesthetic of his campaign. 

Related: A rebuff to the "berniebro" construct; On Bernie and race and how economic justice isn't the same as racial justice; <add link to thing from the 11th>; a beautiful, experiential essay on "This American Bro"

Also, isn't it interesting how engaged we are with first names? I think liked doing that to Hillary, so now it's happening to everyone. And then also Jeb is trying to get us to forget his last name...