Single Men of Park Slope: This Is You
Adam | Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 7:00AM 
Image credit: Emily Niland via The New York ObserverThe New York Observer has compiled a list entitled Eight Guys You Might Meet in Brooklyn: Read This Before Dating One. ‘The Brooklyn male is an elusive specimen’ it coos, using the word elusive quite wrongly, and promises to be a guide for ‘the next time you find yourself out in the Brooklyn wild with a hunger for a man-(child).’ How exotic and infantile we are, apparently! The archetypes are each assigned a neighborhood, the premise being that the neighborhood will dictate what kind of date the person will be (the locales listed are mainly in the grip of gentrification by the way – other Brooklyn neighborhoods apparently don’t merit inclusion).
What you can probably guess is that the Observer’s archetypes are fairly predictable and to a large extent interchangeable. The list in question is mostly just descriptions of ‘a guy’ peppered with some local bar names, which I suspect were randomly chosen from the Whatever Seems Popular on Yelp Guide to Brooklyn. There’s one unique example that stands out however, and it’s the entry for Park Slope. Apparently, fellow men of Park Slope, according to Ms. Mooney our archetype is The Gamer, the weirdo above who looks like Beavis and Butthead’s guidance counselor.
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