Who Gives A Shit: Are All Park Slopers Officially Self-Entitled A-Holes?

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Former Park Slope mom Christine is fed up with Park Slope's entitled 'tude, as she recently said on her blog, Quasi Agitato. I know you're totally a grown-up who can read her post for yourself, but I thought I would highlight some quotes from this particular article in case you want the Cliff notes version:

We'll start at the beginning (it's a very good place to start) with Quasi Agitato's annotated definition of our fair neighborhood: 

Note: Park Slope is a Brooklyn neighborhood bordering on Prospect Park that boasts beautiful brownstones and lovely shops and restaurants. The majority of the people who live there consider themselves very special lucky.

Next up, she compares Park Slope to a much-loved television show that starts pandering to it's newfound following. Think Steve Urkel on Family Matters when everyone started loving him so they made him come out like 5 times every show with his pants under his chin to wild applause (Kramer is also interchangable here):

But, it’s like when your favorite TV show gets the attention of the critics and suddenly it’s not this quirky little thing that only you and your friends watch. Everyone is watching it. And suddenly you realize that its creators are AWARE that everyone is watching it. It has become ‘known’ for this quirky thing it does and suddenly it starts doing that thing ALL the time. Ad nauseum. Unchecked. And then it becomes a parody of itself.

Now, I'm assuming this next example is the real reason why Christine wrote her post in the first place, because it sure as shit screams "entitled." It is the more horrifying example of Slopers who don't know how to mind their damn business, and is drawn from this awesome post by blogger Stoopmomma, which is pretty spot-on about the ostracizing going on in this hood toward non-breastfeeding mothers. Quasi Agitato in response says:

Like-minded turned into Homogenous. Fortunate moved out and Entitled moved in. Once upon a time, the conversation happening there was thought-provoking. It has since become judgmental and unforgiving.

I will admit that the self-righteous woman who told stoop momma's husband she was a bitch for not breastfeeding was totally in the wrong. She promptly needs to mind her own damn business.

But when it comes to Christine's thoughts on our muni-meters, her opinions are a little redonk, if you ask me:

You see, Park Slope recently ditched it’s run of the mill parking meters for these stupid contraptions called muni-meters. To use one you have to park, go to the nearest muni-meter and put your money in. It’ll cost you 50 cents for the privilege of parking on a Park Slope street for 15 minutes!! After you pay up you get a little ticket, go back to your car and place it on your dashboard. There are so many problems with this but I’m just going to stick to the one at play in this scenario. In the one minute it took me to get my little ticket from the muni-meter, I was given a fucking PARKING TICKET!!! In Park Slope, “Lovely Rita” is more like a ravenous zombie. She comes out of nowhere, descends upon your car and eats its brain. I was livid. I may have called her a Nazi. In my head.

Your average Park Sloper has no control over municipal parking meters or the traffic cops who gives you tickets. You need to take your issue up with the DOT or NYPD. Just sayin'. 

Finally, Quasi Agitato's laundry list of things she dislikes about Park Slope wraps up with a sign hung over the entry way of PS 321 that reads, "Stuff You Should Buy." She says:

This is just one of three banners hanging in front of their elementary school advertising the upcoming Holiday Market. All three banners make some kind of reference to the Almighty Buck. This one bothered me the most. My kids are in public school. I understand the intense need for money to keep these schools great in the face of crippling budget cuts. But it’s that use of the word “should.” Really? Should we all, indeed, buy your stuff? I’m sure it’s nice stuff. I’m sure I would WANT to buy it. But how many “Hail Mary’s” will I have to say if I don’t? It is a public school, you know. Do we maybe want to  think, just for a second, about the parents that very simply can’t buy this “stuff?” 

via quasiagitato.com

I personally think that this sign was supposed to be a bit of fun, not a complete guilt-trip for people to spend money. Again, just my opinion. 

In the last line of her post, Christine tells Park Slope to consider itself bitch-slapped, and that she would rather be spending her money elsewhere this holiday season. Basically, we've been done-told.  So, FIPS'ters, thoughts? Comments? Is this chick holding a mirror to the opinionated, dickish nature of the average Sloper, or this is a harsh criticism on the pigeon-holed neighborhood we know and love?

More importantly: have we become the Steve Urkle of NYC hoods?

Don't hold back.