Your city's gender/personality if it was a person - Page 3

Pedestrian · #41 Posted **Apr 23, 2018, 2:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by dc_denizen

SF would be female

So you don't think Andrew Cunanan says it?

Maybe I'll try again.

dubu · #42 Posted **Apr 23, 2018, 2:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by jd3189

^^^ I can't see LA being male. It always striked me as a feminine city. SF could go either way, but the sprawling landscape, concentration of movie actresses, and the mild climate makes me think that way for LA.

I think it depends if your looking at it from a sky view or ground level. A square or lines is man and a circle is girl. That's what all the geometry videos on YouTube say. I don't know if it's true in real life.

CaliNative · #43 Posted **Apr 24, 2018, 1:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

So you don't think Andrew Cunanan says it?

Maybe I'll try again.

Naah. Unless something is done to increase housing, a homeless man or woman might be the new face of both SF & LA (and maybe Seattle & Portland & San Diego) in a few years. This homeless crisis is totally nuts.

muppet · #44 Posted **Apr 24, 2018, 9:23 AM**

Back in the day:

http://abcnewsradioonline.com

www.morrisonhotelgallery.com

After her winning transformation

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/515099276100546788/

mrnyc · #45 Posted **Apr 24, 2018, 1:55 PM**

nyc is a stylish, skinny guy with a polyester shirt, a small willy and a big mouth.
while i dk about the willy business, otherwise its basically steve buscemi.

Xing · #46 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 2:01 AM**

LA is female, like the ones in an ad using overly attractive 2018 interpretations of hippies to target a trend obsessed youth culture.

pizzaguy · #47 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 2:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by Xing

LA is female, like the ones in an ad using overly attractive 2018 interpretations of hippies to target a trend obsessed youth culture.

In what universe would LA be a white person?

jd3189 · #48 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 3:32 AM**

^^^ The universe as it was in much of the late 20th century. The poster child of LA in my mind was always a blonde valley girl.

austlar1 · #49 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 7:13 PM**

Austin is a cranky aging hippie couple. The wife kinda/sorta runs the show, but her old man can be crafty and independent. After years of partying, one or both of them may be in a 12 step program. They have too many young kids and grand kids that they don't understand very well. Some of the young 'uns are techie hipsters, but quite a few of them are just fuck ups with lots of tattoos and maybe a two year degree from a community college. They all complain a lot about the place becoming over-run with Californians, and they think all these new tall buildings and expensive condos don't belong here. They wish Stevie Ray Vaughn would come back and make things right again. Clean and serene or not, they still show up every year for Eeyore's birthday bash. See link below for details.

https://www.google.com/search?biw=93....0.NTtdAiEInt8

Obadno · #50 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 7:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by pizzaguy

In what universe would LA be a white person?

IN what universe is LA not a full of herself teenager?

This is LA

Acajack · #51 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 7:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by jd3189

^^^ The universe as it was in much of the late 20th century. The poster child of LA in my mind was always a blonde valley girl.

I'd say that's true for most people, including me. And still largely the case.

Though sure it's transitioning rapidly and the stereotypical LA girl of the near future will likely be someone like Vanessa Hudgens, as opposed to Heather Locklear.

Acajack · #52 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 7:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Obadno

IN what universe is LA not a full of herself teenager?

This is LA

Love this too!

Centropolis · #53 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 8:00 PM**

granted i don't live in LA, but try to visit as much as possible...but it's something/someone like this that feels like it's underpinning the entire operation, holding it together if we are talking about cities= a person:

the valley girl thing seems really dated to me i think.

dubu · #54 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 8:05 PM**

seattle, vancouver and san jose should be a asian girl. maybe

Obadno · #55 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 8:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by Centropolis

granted i don't live in LA but it's something/someone like this that feels like it's underpinning the entire operation, holding it together if we are talking about cities= a person:

the valley girl thing seems really dated to me, or well, specifically parts of orange county (now).

Are we talking about the personification of the city I.e it’s culture and reputation anthropomorphized into a human or a representative depiction of its average resident?

Because if it’s the first one la is a bitchy rich teenage girl, I suppose she doesn’t have to be white, but a blonde (natural or dyed) rich bitchy teenager is LA without a doubt.

San Francisco is her smarter more bookish (but still bitchy and rich) older sister that moved away and started smoking pot.

Centropolis · #56 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 8:10 PM**

maybe i choose not to see it but i just don't see the bitchy richy whitey girl thing as a dominant LA personality, anymore. i see plenty of that in midwestern cities i think...sort of an inverse to the blue collar expectation...

i see a lot more working class (and all around) diverse hustle in LA than other people i guess.

Obadno · #57 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 8:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Centropolis

maybe i choose not to see it but i just don't see the bitchy richy whitey girl thing as a dominant LA personality, anymore. i see plenty of that in midwestern cities i think...sort of an inverse to the blue collar expectation...

i see a lot more working class (and all around) diverse hustle in LA than other people i guess.

Nobody said stereotypes were fair or accurate, they are more like hyperbolic mockeries that hit on some fundamental truths.

But LA is not perceived as a place of blue collar hard working salt-of-the-earth types like the Midwest.

I found this after 16 seconds of google,

http://www.whowhatwear.com/interview...ly-famous-2015
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainm...n-la-douchebag
I have a personal example:

I was in Austin for business about a month ago and one of the girls there was from our LA office, she was a cute Asian girl weighing all of about 95 lbs with a full on .."like" valley girl/SoCal way of speaking. She was incredibly excited to have BBQ because her Yoga instructor boyfriend doesn't like when she eats meat.

It was the most LA sounding nonsense I'd heard in quite a while, and I told her so.

Centropolis · #58 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 8:24 PM**

this thread wasn't really about goofy stereotypes, though (in my opinion)

Centropolis · #59 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 8:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Obadno

I have a personal example:

I was in Austin for business about a month ago and one of the girls there was from our LA office, she was a cute Asian girl weighing all of about 95 lbs with a full on .."like" valley girl/SoCal way of speaking. She was incredibly excited to have BBQ because her Yoga instructor boyfriend doesn't like when she eats meat.

It was the most LA sounding nonsense I'd heard in quite a while, and I told her so.

that kind of thing has spread across the u.s. now, though.

pizzaguy · #60 Posted **Apr 26, 2018, 8:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by Obadno

IN what universe is LA not a full of herself teenager?

This is LA

Mean Girls takes place in the suburbs of Chicago.

LA is Mexican.