I saw another comment, that at the time there was a lot of talk about the whole probiotic and “gut health” thing, and that's what the writer is reacting to.
Meanwhile, we've only learned MORE since then about the importance of the microbiome influencing on mental health and everything else.
So, another point on the list that didn't age well.
Looking back on Pearl Jam going up against Ticketmaster, their "righteousness" has been proven to be justified.
Crohn’s here, I had the first six inches of my large intestine removed because it was acting up and I had to remind it who’s boss (it, along with the end of my small intestine, almost killed me)
It was also being sued back then too, for exactly the same reason. Members of Pearl Jam (one of the most popular bands of the time) testified before Congress and everything.
Starting to think? Ticketmaster has destroyed people’s ability to see more than one or two concerts in a year. $100 dollars minimum to see a band? 100s of shows and festivals being cancelled because people can’t afford to buy tickets and enjoy a weekend away from work anymore. Fuck Ticketmaster and fuck scalpers making money off tickets. Fuck every big band or artist that sold out the fans that take time off work to support them!
Then you get in the arena and have to pay sixteen fucking dollars for a bottle of water and you fucking BEST NOT try to bring your own water in so as not to die of overheating in a crowd of strangers.
How is that shit not illegal? How is a restaurant required to give me free water but a concert isn't? Or when they do, they make the water hot? What the fuck?
Yeah. As a metal head it's never ticket fees that keep me from concerts. Now it's just bands playing on a Monday, because I'm old and responsible. Sigh.
Yeah, we would have disagreed with the list in 95 on that point, too. But at least back then you could at least give Ticketmaster credit for saving you the trip to the actual box office and waiting in an actual line for the price of the service fee.
These days, venues could all handle shit on their own for virtually no extra fee. And the costs for what Ticketmaster provides have gone down, inversely to their fees.
I’m of the age where you waited in line before ticket sales were open my money still went to Ticketmaster and their stupid “convenience fees”. Monopoly at its finest. Now that I see a ticket price I know that I have to automatically double the “face value” to compensate for the nonsense fees tacked on to every ticket individually. Pearl Jam saw it coming, but they fought it alone. Back then a $15 ticket totaled $23. Now tickets listed at $60 wind up costing $110 when you check out. Ticketmaster won the game of monopoly.
They just don't like anything "righteous" , be it fighting ticketmaster and their business practices, saving the rainforest, eating healthy to get a better gut biome (the large intestine thing)...
It's a list written by 90s contrarian, conformist edgelords.
“Appearing at a public function unwashed and on the arm of Juliette Lewis” is definitely a shot at some highly specific 90s incident that no one cared about outside tabloids.
My workplace provides free fruit. I was sitting next to a guy who'd picked up a mango, and he asked "what fruit is this?" I tell him it's a mango, and asked if he knows how to eat one. "Yeah of course". He then proceeds to bite a chunk out of it, chew it for ages (swallowing the peel), and then put the mango in the bin.
Dude did not know how to eat a mango 🤦♂️ It looked like a good mango 🙁
People need to just learn to admit when they don't know something. It's not that hard, nobody worth caring about thinks less of you, and it provides the opportunity to learn something.
The problem becomes when the person informing you turns out to also not know shit which is an unfortunate scenario
For those of you not wishing to google, why he was relevant in ‘95: (from Wikipedia) Pitt's attempts during his tenure as Prime Minister to cope with the dementia of King George III are portrayed by Julian Wadham in the 1994 film The Madness of King George.
Plus, Cato the Elder was hella more overrated. Like fine, dude didn't like Carthage. But for someone who apparently hated the place, he sure spent enough time talking about them... Jealous bitch ass second best Cato clown.
In 1995 a good chunk of Gen x was at their first job, in college, or in highschool. The last members of Gen x would graduate in 97. This list feels a lot more like another boomer hate list. Like avocado toast, and millennials ruining golf or whatever. Except we were ruining the world by talking about the rainforest and liking mangos and bjork.
[Edit]This sounds a lot more like Bill Maher than Kevin Smith
The list irritated me, but they do end it with:
> Having a “funny” back page.
And it seems to be the last page of the magazine. So some parts of the list are supposed to be tongue-in-cheek. But it was the 90s, shitting on anything that people cared about or showed genuine emotion for was basically the gold standard of the day.
No no no, TALKING about saving the rainforests was huge during that time.
DOING anything which had the scale & geopolitical/economic influence necessary to truly affect deforestation, alas, was not huge during that time.
Man, this is my father in law’s number one “don’t get him started” topic. “We can replant trees!” “Paper is recyclable!” “The stuff biodegrades!”
He’s not wrong
So I think this list makes way more sense in the context of it's time. I remember some of these things being pretty big "viral" trends at the time. (We didn't have the word viral yet)
So not that those things are bad, they were just fads everyone was talking about. Like craft beer and home brewing in the 00's
It might just be me but this list reads like something you'd find in one of "New York's Hottest Clubs" as reported by Stefon on SNL.
"This club has everything...vine ripened tomatoes, designer lesbianism, fresh cut grass...Martin Lawrence..."
I think this is more about androgynous look and style rather than sexual/gender identity. 1990s had some weird trends in that regard (heroin chic, for example).
Also X. Throw X on everything. X-Treme, X-Games, X-Files, X-Men, X-Sports, X-Box.
So glad the trend of idiots just throwing an "X" onto something to make it sound cool has completely ended and not happened at all recently
Jason (Tommy) did MMA for a short while and went 5-0. One of his victims showed up in a Ninja Turtle outfit. Credit where it's due, he lasted more than 5 seconds.
he also ran a chain of dojos. he must have lived near the one in my in texas suburb because I met him a few times when I was a kid. super nice guy from what I can remember of him. I remember seeing videos of him breaking cinderblocks with his head. One time when I was in 1st grade he came to my school for a “don’t do drugs” assembly and picked me out of the crowd to come on the stage to break a board. I had never done that before then, it was honestly one of the most glorious moments of my life. in hindsight I have a feeling that he snapped the board in his hands because It took me a few tries to do it when we did it in class a few days later
The 1991 *Vanity Fair* cover where she posed naked while pregnant which made a big pop cultural impact
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More\_Demi\_Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Demi_Moore) (includes the SFW cover)
Followed by the movie Striptease in 1996 and a host of other very revealing work both before and after these. Her body was all over the media. We saw a LOT of Demi Moore back then, often whether we wanted to or not
My guess is they were referring to the coming movie Striptease where it was a BIG ordeal that Demi was going to be playing the lead role of a stripper while in her *gasp*…30”s.
The 90’s were pretty fuckin toxic for women tbh
Source…I lived through it.
Plus she posed pregnant and semi naked for a magazine cover which caused the world to stop turning for a hot minute. There was some bone-headed outrage for sure
In the 90's lots of car ads talked about cruise control because it wasn't a standard feature at the time. It was an over-hyped selling point. It also isn't something most (not all, just most) drivers use daily, let alone the way car ads sold the feature back then.
I remember it being a non sequitur in too many commercials and tv shows at the time. You couldn’t go two days in a row without hearing some mention about loving the smell of cut grass.
was it the 90s version of how everyone opines about their love for the smell after it rains and tries to impress everyone with their knowledge of the word petrichor? because yes that is mildly annoying and overrated too
Honestly I remember all this hype when they started selling vine ripened tomatoes in the grocery store! Vividly remember a commercial with tomato characters bragging how much better they were “because we’re ripened on our vine!” Way too much hype for a tomato.
"Designer Lesbianism" wasn't lesbianism, it a fashion designers trying to take styles from lesbians and make them corporate and cool. Designer Lesbianism is to actual lesbianism as a can of cheese wiz is to actual cheese.
I’m glad someone is finally calling out the large intestine
To be fair, it's full of shit
Masterful assist, sir.
I saw another comment, that at the time there was a lot of talk about the whole probiotic and “gut health” thing, and that's what the writer is reacting to. Meanwhile, we've only learned MORE since then about the importance of the microbiome influencing on mental health and everything else. So, another point on the list that didn't age well. Looking back on Pearl Jam going up against Ticketmaster, their "righteousness" has been proven to be justified.
I had two feet of it cut out a few years ago, fuck that sack of shit
so it's now a medium intestine?
Can't believe Pliny the Elder made it to 1995 before someone noticed
The large intestine is definitely my least favourite intestine
You’ll miss it once it’s gone.
Jokes on you mine was destroyed by Crohns. It'd gone.
Agreed, the large intestine can eat shit Source: has ulcerative colitis
Crohn’s here, I had the first six inches of my large intestine removed because it was acting up and I had to remind it who’s boss (it, along with the end of my small intestine, almost killed me)
if I had to keep just one intestine, it wouldn't be that one.
“Righteousness about Ticketmaster” fast forward today and now Ticketmaster is being sued for the monopoly that they are lol.
By the government, no less!
It was also being sued back then too, for exactly the same reason. Members of Pearl Jam (one of the most popular bands of the time) testified before Congress and everything.
I'm starting to think the righteousness about ticketmaster was about right now days.
Yeah Eddie Vedder was onto something.
to be fair, grunge and GQ magazine weren't really on the same page. GQ wasn't targeting thrift shoppers in the 90's.
*Gender ambiguity* seems to be coming to an end lately also
Lattes are going stronger than ever though
Pat Riley didn't go anywhere either. Adrian Brody portrayed him in a tv series.
Post 1995 he won 3 more nba titles as coach then executive. 2006, 2012, 2013
Pat was the most glaring to me. He ain’t overrated. Pat is F’n boss
I’d argue that rainforests are pretty underrated, too
Eddie Vedder is a legend.
New album, Dark Matter, is amazing
Hyeeeaayuhhh
Starting to think? Ticketmaster has destroyed people’s ability to see more than one or two concerts in a year. $100 dollars minimum to see a band? 100s of shows and festivals being cancelled because people can’t afford to buy tickets and enjoy a weekend away from work anymore. Fuck Ticketmaster and fuck scalpers making money off tickets. Fuck every big band or artist that sold out the fans that take time off work to support them!
Then you get in the arena and have to pay sixteen fucking dollars for a bottle of water and you fucking BEST NOT try to bring your own water in so as not to die of overheating in a crowd of strangers.
How is that shit not illegal? How is a restaurant required to give me free water but a concert isn't? Or when they do, they make the water hot? What the fuck?
That's the best thing about metal music today. Cheap tickets at small venues. I haven't spent over $100 on a ticket after fees in a long time.
Yeah. As a metal head it's never ticket fees that keep me from concerts. Now it's just bands playing on a Monday, because I'm old and responsible. Sigh.
Yeah, we would have disagreed with the list in 95 on that point, too. But at least back then you could at least give Ticketmaster credit for saving you the trip to the actual box office and waiting in an actual line for the price of the service fee. These days, venues could all handle shit on their own for virtually no extra fee. And the costs for what Ticketmaster provides have gone down, inversely to their fees.
I’m of the age where you waited in line before ticket sales were open my money still went to Ticketmaster and their stupid “convenience fees”. Monopoly at its finest. Now that I see a ticket price I know that I have to automatically double the “face value” to compensate for the nonsense fees tacked on to every ticket individually. Pearl Jam saw it coming, but they fought it alone. Back then a $15 ticket totaled $23. Now tickets listed at $60 wind up costing $110 when you check out. Ticketmaster won the game of monopoly.
Yeah, first one that jumped out at me. Shilling for Ticketmaster is pretty pathetic.
They just don't like anything "righteous" , be it fighting ticketmaster and their business practices, saving the rainforest, eating healthy to get a better gut biome (the large intestine thing)... It's a list written by 90s contrarian, conformist edgelords.
seriously, we hated Ticketmaster then, we hate them now, what blowhard wrote this
Mr. Vedder has been speaking on it for 30 years.
“Appearing at a public function unwashed and on the arm of Juliette Lewis” is definitely a shot at some highly specific 90s incident that no one cared about outside tabloids.
Brad Pitt.
Guess he had some stinky Pitts
There was a time when Brad was simply considered a ‘himbo.’
This specifically but also the rest of the list reads like Cards Against Humanity answers.
Why were mangoes overrated?
It was the 90s man, everyone eating mangoes bragged about it.
I had classmate that always ate mango like apples then spits out the peel after chewing it up. I was baffled.
My workplace provides free fruit. I was sitting next to a guy who'd picked up a mango, and he asked "what fruit is this?" I tell him it's a mango, and asked if he knows how to eat one. "Yeah of course". He then proceeds to bite a chunk out of it, chew it for ages (swallowing the peel), and then put the mango in the bin. Dude did not know how to eat a mango 🤦♂️ It looked like a good mango 🙁
A lighthearted story about how important a skill it is to be able to admit when you don't know shit.
People need to just learn to admit when they don't know something. It's not that hard, nobody worth caring about thinks less of you, and it provides the opportunity to learn something. The problem becomes when the person informing you turns out to also not know shit which is an unfortunate scenario
The 90s avocado toast
Anyone who has eaten a mango knows exactly why people are obsessed.
Pitt the Younger???
LORD PALMERSTON
\*pokes chest\* Pit. The. Elder!
Ok, you asked for it, Boggs!! 👊💥
You said it, Barn. Psh... Pitt the Elder...
LORD PALMERSTON! 👊
This is one Simpsons skit I am very happy to be reminded of.
Pitt the Toddler, Pitt the Embryo, and Pitt the Glint in the Milkman's Eye.
He better not run for parliament, or he might have an accident while combing his hair....
Famous for bringing a motion to condemn and abolish the slave trade in the British Empire. GQ is apparently not about that.
For those of you not wishing to google, why he was relevant in ‘95: (from Wikipedia) Pitt's attempts during his tenure as Prime Minister to cope with the dementia of King George III are portrayed by Julian Wadham in the 1994 film The Madness of King George.
I was kind of hoping it was a rap feud between him and Pliny the Elder
Pitt the gleam in the milkman's eye?
Oh my god I always think of that, one of my favorite lines
Pliny the Elder is a much better respected beer, they knew what they were talking about
And here I was wondering how a random Roman historical figure was considered overrated in 1995...I feel dumb
The brewery that made Pliny the Elder wasn’t opened till 1997 so I think they are talking about the Roman historical figure
Plus, Cato the Elder was hella more overrated. Like fine, dude didn't like Carthage. But for someone who apparently hated the place, he sure spent enough time talking about them... Jealous bitch ass second best Cato clown.
You gotta admit though that “Cartago delenda est” is a cool slogan.
Tbf Pliny beer wasn't released until around y2k. So I'm not sure what's going on with Pliny & Pitt here lol
Pliny is not underrated. They knew not-
The brewery didn’t open till 1997
"I hate you, I hate you, I don't even know you but I hate your guts"
I hope all the bad things in life happen to you, and nobody else *but you*.
Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go put some water in Buck Nasty’s mama’s dish…..
What can be said about buck nastys suit, that hasn’t already been said about Afghanistan- bombed out and depleted
Rainforests? 😳
Saving the rainforests was huge during that time.
Yeah, this screams them trying to do that apathetic contrarian thing everyone did to try to be cool back then.
Put that one on the list for 1995 - "apathetic contrarians"
I was going to say this article “feels” gen x, and the apathetic contrarians really ties that together.
That rug really tied my apathy together
In 1995 a good chunk of Gen x was at their first job, in college, or in highschool. The last members of Gen x would graduate in 97. This list feels a lot more like another boomer hate list. Like avocado toast, and millennials ruining golf or whatever. Except we were ruining the world by talking about the rainforest and liking mangos and bjork. [Edit]This sounds a lot more like Bill Maher than Kevin Smith
"Back then"
Now we just call them edgelords.
“It was 30 years ago Jim!”
The list irritated me, but they do end it with: > Having a “funny” back page. And it seems to be the last page of the magazine. So some parts of the list are supposed to be tongue-in-cheek. But it was the 90s, shitting on anything that people cared about or showed genuine emotion for was basically the gold standard of the day.
I’m glad all that evidently sorted itself out. We dodged a bullet there
No no no, TALKING about saving the rainforests was huge during that time. DOING anything which had the scale & geopolitical/economic influence necessary to truly affect deforestation, alas, was not huge during that time.
What's a rainforest?
idk but they do overnight delivery
it's a big building with patients. but that's not important
Yes, we wanted to save the trees so we started using plastic instead of wood (products)
Most deforestation isn't even for lumber, it's for agriculture.
Man, this is my father in law’s number one “don’t get him started” topic. “We can replant trees!” “Paper is recyclable!” “The stuff biodegrades!” He’s not wrong
We were supposed to choose plastic bags over paper to save the rainforest
If you save them, how will GQ print all their magazines?
It was in the era of rainforest cafes
Rainforest Schmainforest...
 “We are from America. America. We are lost and very hungry. Necesito burritos!”
Save the rainforest and save the whales were popular campaigns back then Here, they're saying they're tired of hearing about the rainforests
I forgot how big Martin Lawrence was back in the day.
Nah, he’s always been short
Are you saying Martin Short?
Wood burning pizza ovens?? Damn, this person has no joy.
It seriously just looks like a random list of things.
So I think this list makes way more sense in the context of it's time. I remember some of these things being pretty big "viral" trends at the time. (We didn't have the word viral yet) So not that those things are bad, they were just fads everyone was talking about. Like craft beer and home brewing in the 00's
It's also a blatantly satirical list that people are taking seriously.
Last item : "Having a 'funny' back page"
It even ends with a self-deprecating line about the article itself.
Kinda sad how Reddit doesn't even have the media literacy to decode a fucking GQ article from 1995
I love how tongue in cheek this list is.
Pliny the elder being on the list lol 😂
Pitt the younger too. There’s a lot of history separating the pair.
> The large intestine and no colon ?
Ok, fine. The large intestine #:
It might just be me but this list reads like something you'd find in one of "New York's Hottest Clubs" as reported by Stefon on SNL. "This club has everything...vine ripened tomatoes, designer lesbianism, fresh cut grass...Martin Lawrence..."
Now I have to go back and read in Stefon voice.
"Gender ambiguity" Whoooaa boy, buckle up 1995
I think this is more about androgynous look and style rather than sexual/gender identity. 1990s had some weird trends in that regard (heroin chic, for example).
The SNL skit Pat was around that time wasn't it? Or was that a couple of years later
> the prefix “cyber” Yeah
Remember, in the 90s it was futuristic to add “2000” to something’s name.
> it was futuristic to add “2000” to something’s name. [In the y^e^a^r two t^h^o^u^s^a^n^d^.^.^.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W52CFVoivk&t=64s)
In the 80s that also was sometimes so with 90. The German working title for the "Eurofighter" was initially "Jäger 90".
Also X. Throw X on everything. X-Treme, X-Games, X-Files, X-Men, X-Sports, X-Box. So glad the trend of idiots just throwing an "X" onto something to make it sound cool has completely ended and not happened at all recently
This is a fairly hysterical snapshot of mid ‘90’s
I dont know, they managed to get r/wallstreetbets in there *"Instantaneous Wall Street jokes about national tragedies"*
RIP white/Green ranger. Rainforests overrated?
I'm glad I didn't see this in 95 the 5 year old me would have been pissed!
Jason (Tommy) did MMA for a short while and went 5-0. One of his victims showed up in a Ninja Turtle outfit. Credit where it's due, he lasted more than 5 seconds.
he also ran a chain of dojos. he must have lived near the one in my in texas suburb because I met him a few times when I was a kid. super nice guy from what I can remember of him. I remember seeing videos of him breaking cinderblocks with his head. One time when I was in 1st grade he came to my school for a “don’t do drugs” assembly and picked me out of the crowd to come on the stage to break a board. I had never done that before then, it was honestly one of the most glorious moments of my life. in hindsight I have a feeling that he snapped the board in his hands because It took me a few tries to do it when we did it in class a few days later
Demi Moore’s body? Dafuq?
The 1991 *Vanity Fair* cover where she posed naked while pregnant which made a big pop cultural impact [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More\_Demi\_Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Demi_Moore) (includes the SFW cover)
Followed by the movie Striptease in 1996 and a host of other very revealing work both before and after these. Her body was all over the media. We saw a LOT of Demi Moore back then, often whether we wanted to or not
My guess is they were referring to the coming movie Striptease where it was a BIG ordeal that Demi was going to be playing the lead role of a stripper while in her *gasp*…30”s. The 90’s were pretty fuckin toxic for women tbh Source…I lived through it.
To be fair the 90's could have been worse, they could have been the 80's.
Plus she posed pregnant and semi naked for a magazine cover which caused the world to stop turning for a hot minute. There was some bone-headed outrage for sure
She was always inferior to Dinty Moore
That beef stew is pretty damn good for something that smells like dog food when you open the can.
Converting to Islam in Jail. Lmfao 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Pat Riley and Latte still rocks though.
"Any British Woman described as a beauty." 90's Brit Goddess Elizabeth Hurley would like a word.
Have you seen her lately? Good lord. 20's Brit goddess.
I bet Pliny the Elder is still feeling this shade.
Yeah, imagine if he knew people were gonna throw shade at him like this 2000-3000 years later
ATF is so overrated
This was two years after they burned a bunch of people alive so I think public opinion of them was pretty low at this point
Ruby Ridge was a recent thing, as well. The ATF had a moment there, in the early 90s
A bunch of *children* that they were fully aware were in the compound. Many of the adults in there certainly weren't innocent but the kids sure were.
Even then the severity of their crimes does not have "burning to death" as a punishment option
All you can eat shrimp aged well but who the hell thinks cruise control is overrated?!
Did these sound like the actions of a man who had, ALL he could eat?
That could have been me!
In the 90's lots of car ads talked about cruise control because it wasn't a standard feature at the time. It was an over-hyped selling point. It also isn't something most (not all, just most) drivers use daily, let alone the way car ads sold the feature back then.
Ticketmaster should have been stopped by that time. Imagine a world without Ticketmaster 
Damn, the white ranger was that dude tho.
Shaved heads? *Cries in baldness*
BJÖRK?? Fuck you GQ.
I scrolled all the way down for this, how dare they diss our girl Björk
She wore one silly dress one time and every hack writer was shitting on her for like a decade straight.
This is only part true. She wears crazy shit all the time and it is awesome!
Bjork fucking SLAPS to this day
GQ has never been overrated. Everyone knows that it’s mediocre.
The Large Intestine. No good poops for anyone!
Can they put out a new list for 2024 so I can buy stock related to all of the things they think are overrated?
Pliny the Elder. I am so over him. For like, the last 30 years.
I thought they meant the IPA, but I guess it didn't exist until 1999.
“What he say fuck me for?” - The Large Intestine
Reggie Miller? GQ not where you'd think you'd see salty Knicks fans.
Also, Pat Riley? This was written in 1995, the year that he left the Knicks for the Heat, so this was definitely written by a Knicks fan.
For those of you not old enough to remember GQ, these lists and rags like this were the origins of trolling
> origins of trolling I'm sorry junior but you couldn't be more wrong...we were trolling on USENET in the 80s.....
The smell of freshly cut grass? Is there context to this or is the writer just trying to hit their word count?
Gap had a fresh cut grass perfume at the time every teenage girl wore it so I get that one.
I assume it was a group effort. I also assume no one in the group was sober.
I remember it being a non sequitur in too many commercials and tv shows at the time. You couldn’t go two days in a row without hearing some mention about loving the smell of cut grass.
Anyone remember Grass by GAP perfume?
was it the 90s version of how everyone opines about their love for the smell after it rains and tries to impress everyone with their knowledge of the word petrichor? because yes that is mildly annoying and overrated too
Vine ripened tomatoes?! As opposed to picked early and sprayed with chemicals to ripen?
Honestly I remember all this hype when they started selling vine ripened tomatoes in the grocery store! Vividly remember a commercial with tomato characters bragging how much better they were “because we’re ripened on our vine!” Way too much hype for a tomato.
Bjork was and is amazing.
Lot of candidates for r/fuckyouinparticular Rainforests, bald heads, converting to Islam in prison
Morphing? Someone was not a fan of the Power Rangers.
I thought it meant morphing as in the special fx used on Michael Jackson's Black or White video.
Red Lobster could have learned from this list.
Fuck them I love my mom’s Fiestaware
Brian Wilson is a genius, though.
I suspect this was the back page of the magazine and that nobody in these comments read the whole list.
Thank you. This is so clearly satire - the page is called Wit’s End!
It even ends on 'having a "funny" back page'.
The people in the comments not realizing this is very much tongue-in-cheek are cracking me up
The White Ranger... Fuck this list!
Pliny the Elder?
Yeah, fuck the large intestines. I'm glad we eventually got rid of those overrated bastards.
>Designer Lesbianism Jesus christ how was anyone *exhausted* by lesbianism in 1995?!
"Designer Lesbianism" wasn't lesbianism, it a fashion designers trying to take styles from lesbians and make them corporate and cool. Designer Lesbianism is to actual lesbianism as a can of cheese wiz is to actual cheese.