Why Portlandia Makes Fun Of Virtuous Hipsters

Series co-creator Carrie Brownstein: “I guess that they are ridiculous, but at the same time they’re things that I embrace – it’s a set of behaviors and an ideology that I enact, and that I think many of us sort of perform or follow. … [But] it takes a certain amount of good fortune, privilege and entitlement to have those things be what you’re worried about. And I think that most of us know that.”