By Raakhee Mirchandani for Elle Magazine

Papa, can you hear me? There's some bullshit brewing in Brooklyn.

"Hipster Dads Now Want to Be Called Papa" a headline blares in The Daily Beast. The article cites "anecdotal evidence" (playground chatter, several quotes from Brooklyn "papas" and some "mamas"), and posits that its comeback (it was last popular in American English in the 1870s) is "perhaps as part of a return to the authentic and artisanal—the old made new again."