If you're a female living in Brooklyn, congratulations: You are now officially trendy. As a new article posted on The Cut this morning points out, 2013 has seen a significant rise in the "Brooklyn girl" character type, mostly due to the popularity of Lena Dunham's Girls character Hannah, a 20-something writer living in Greenpoint who somehow makes her rent every month despite only working at a coffee shop in her neighborhood.
The article explains:
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Apart from Girls, there's also the recently released book series by Gemma Burgess, Brooklyn Girls, which follows five friends post-grad living in a cute little brownstone in Cobble Hill while trying to find themselves both professionally and personally:
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The article cites Frances Ha and 2 Broke Girls for embracing the trend with their main characters as well.
It's an interesting trend, especially when you consider the fact that the women who create these types of well-educated, creative, but professionally aimless characters are successful women themselves and complete opposites of their characters--at least, professionally. It's even more interesting when coupled with the fact that, per a 2007 and a 2010 Queens College study, young, childless women in urban areas are outearning their male counterparts, as author Yael Kohan points out. "Isn’t it odd how few representations of that Brooklyn Girl – powerful, independent, employed for profit – there are in pop culture?" she asks. "She's probably too busy working to write the book."
You can check out the full article here.
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[via The Cut]
