The public trading of Birkenstocks Sandals. Buying and selling Birkenstocks typically takes place on the trading floor, which is usually Home Depot. When the market opens for exchange, the Birkenstock brokers who can be identified by their flannel shirts, handle all transactions for traders. The closing of the exchange is signaled by playing Melissa Etheridge's "Come to My Window"
Janet: I need new Sandals. I'm going to the Birkenstock Exchange.
Janine: Can you bring back some lumber so I can build a new garage?
A seemingly loosely-knit group of lesbians on any and every online edifice for verbal war (i.e.: usenet, forums, online art communities) who, when one of them is even mildly insulted, will rain relentless hellfire upon the foolish, hapless mortal that seemingly made a newbie mistake, and any fool who may speak either on the behalf of the mortal, or attempts to calm the sisterhood. They are also trendsetters and have a majority of the public opinion of online art communities in the palms of their fishy hands.
Term used in reference to a group of stereotypical, postmodern hippy-wannabes.
Not to be confused with true, original, peaceful hippies of the 1960s, this modern day self-proclaimed socially conscious group often have extremely aggressive, militant views and attitudes, and will resort to physical measures during the course of their unwarranted, misdirected "peaceful protests".
Readily identified by their stereotypical, common choice of footware (see, Birkenstocks), members of this social classification can be found wherever protests are being held, regardless of how valid the cause may be.
Birkenstock Gestapo: "A guy who has just moved here from Nigeria and became a US Citizen can't be called an African American because his ancestors weren't slaves."
Me: "WTF?!"
Birkenstock Gestapo: "Why do you hate so much?"
Me (confused as all hell): "Erm... What are you talking about? Then, *mocking*:Dude, Why don't you stop swimmin' at the bottom of the bong, man."
It refers to someone recognising the patriarcal systems that exists in the world.
A play on the term "red-pilled" based on the movie Barbie where Barbie is offered the learn the truth by picking flat Birkenstock (and travelling to the real world) or picking a a pair of pink high heels that reject that for keeping things as they are and ignoring reality.
I used to think men should be paid more but then I got Birkenstock-pilled and realised women deserve to be paid the same for equal work