Posted on 03/27/2008 8:14:52 AM PDT by BGHater
Hey, you, emo kid in Kansas rocking out to Hawthorne Heights as you thumb through the current issue of Alternative Press and draw a cracked heart on the rubber toe of your Jack Purcell. You think you got reason to be doleful? Well, then check out your ilk in Mexico. They've been getting their asses kicked lately as part of a country-wide anti-emo movement and now they're fighting back (this clip is in Spanish, but images speak louder than words. Check out the dudes arming themselves with leather belts. What is this, West Side Story?).
LA Weekly's Daniel Hernandez has been covering the phenomenon for the paper and on his blog Intersections. "A bizarre wave of emo-bashings is sweeping across Mexico. The movement is being generated on message boards and social networking sites by non-emo youth who highly dislike the emo look and attitude. Hernandez reports that it started on March 7th in Queretaro where about 800 young people hunted down emos in the city's Centro Historico for some head bashing. "The next weekend it spread to Mexico City, where emos faced off against punks and rockabillies at the Glorieta de Insurgents, the epicenter of emo social space in the capital."
So what brought all this about? Good old fashioned machismo? Harry24 gives a lengthy discourse here on the "Anti Emo Death Squad" page at last.fm, and even theorizes that the growing emo scene is part of a government conspiracy to cultivate emo kids because they can be easily manipulated (unlike metalheads).
But Harry24 best sums up his emo hatred here (broken English and grammar left intact): "An interesting fact of this, is that the Heavy Metal community is not the only one against emos, we can also find that, pop-listeners, skaters, punks, goths, and other people are against emos here in Mexico. But why metal/rock listeners are not the only ones against emos??? The answer is simple, emo attitude here in Mexico is anti-youngster: they do not drink, they do not have sex, they do not have fun, they go to concerts just to cry, they go to parties just to sit in a corner and cry, and they feel victims of everything, it is really, a very stupid behavior."
Wow, and you thought the rednecks in your town were bad. [Daily Swarm]
Actually, from what little I know, you’d be dead on. Face it, if you grow up in the inner city, you don’t have time to be moping and whining. You’re too busy trying to survive and get out.
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I had a patient that was a “cutter”...said he was trying to commit suicide but never made a cut that would accomplish that unless it became infected...but was very prolific at cutting: 200-300 cuts per incident...primarily to get people to “look at me.”
Maybe they could start kicking ass on those idiots who wear their pants down around their knees, too.
They are teens who get their attention by being depressed rather than being a jock or vampire or fashionista or uber-religious or punk or redneck or gangsta, etc
See, a goth would hit you back. A punk would hit you back HARD. But an emo kid? They’ll just curl up and cry, then go home sniffling and write a bad Livejournal entry about it, using little to no punctuation and all lowercase letters.
“yyz beat me up today. i dont know why. i brought it on myself i guess. this is meaningless. life is meaningless. im going to go smoke some weed and listen to simple plan now. kthx.”
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2 years ago I had lunch with my daughter just across the street from her High School. A group of “EMO” kids came walking in and I looked at my daughter who was wide-eyed. All she said was “Dad... please, don’t!”. I asked her to explain what was going on with them and she did.
I tried. I swear, I really did. But they sat in my line of sight and I started laughing. Couldn’t tell the boys from the girls, all paper thin eating nothing but frys and shakes, all black clothes with heavy make up. They couldn’t finish a fry without giving 2 hugs.
Time with my daughter.
Lunch.
And a good laugh at the show.
btw: my daughter was a Pom, blonde and eventually started laughing as well. They are self-induced pathetic, begging for attention that when they get makes them cry.
I was walking down the street one day and something caught my eye...it dragged me fifteen feet
Wow. Emo music. I knew nothing about it; one of the joys of being 40, I guess. But as a former punk, I’m wicked embarrassed to learn, via the wiki link, that this pussy crap evolved out of hardcore.
>> I was just looking for that episode. That sh*t was so funny. They nailed them down perfectly.
I found this — not the whole episode but it hits the high points:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCaeko9qHrI
Kill them all
Shades of the Mods and Rockers in Britain in the 60s.
I laugh at them anytime I see one of these pathetic losers. Some boy showed up at my house the other day in tow of one of my daughters friends. He had a mohawk and nose, ear, and eyebrow rings. After initially being taken back one was actually in my house after a 30 minute Q&A from me the boy left with no jewelry ( voluntary removal ) and had played with his hair enough it was not standing up any longer.
My daughter told me that when her friend wanted to bring this thing over she told them that would not be a good idea but the “thing” said he could handle it. I guess he could not.
Is that Prince and Ben Stiller’s love child?
Was that along the lines of "You've had everything handed you, why are you acting like such a drip?"
ROFLMAO! Ok, I think I get it now.
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!" Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.
That and stuff like, “why do you dress like that?”
“To be my own person.”
“So dressing like all the other emo people makes you feel unique?”
“Yes.”
“When in reality you are no more unique than any other emo, right?”
“I guess so.”
“What do you stand for?”
“What do you mean?”
“Do you stand for anarchy, emo music, drugs, alcohol, sex, rebelling etc..? Are you a Christian?”
“Yes I am. No, I don’t do drugs or drink and I really do like the music that much.”
“So you do it for the shock factor, maybe to shock your parents? Are they shocked?”
“Maybe and no.”
“So you don’t get the reaction you want and don’t you think that makes you not unique in that you want to be like all the other shock warriors out there.”
And so forth. He was squirming like a dancing chicken.
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