Emo Teens Clogging Up The Streets
I didn’t realise Emo was this huge until I stopped by the city hall the other day. The building was surrounded by a large group of emos who were smoking pot and staring blankly at the pavement. I really wanted to say something to them but Dan stopped me. Don’t these people have anything better to do than stand about with their mouths open that wide? Couldn’t they even get a job in McDonalds? There must be a solution.
It’s the same thing everytime, the guys will stand there with a skateboard tucked underneath one of their arms. The girls will be constantly hoking through their purses trying to find more black nail polish. They hardly ever say anything to one another and when they do it’s something depressing like “Isn’t life Shit? I’m in such a darkhole at the minute”.
This can get entertaining occasionally. The emo guys will try to prove that they are more depressed than each other for hours and hours and it can become quite heated. I once saw an emo guy smash another one over the head with his skateboard. Both of them fell straight in their asses and the skateboard broke clean in half. I was in hysterics.
Anyway I wish the police would do their job and move these people on. Perhaps they could even ship some of them off to mental asylums where they can receive treatment for their depression! I’d settle for anything which meant I didn’t have to encounter these people so often. It’s bad enough spending a few hours a week with Dan. He seems to be set on the idea of wearing my clothes now. He keeps stretching my rara skirts the lanky git! A girl shouldn’t have to hide her clothes from her boyfriend FFS! I think I’ll buy him some women’s clothes for his birthday. I’m scared though that he’ll go out in them and receive a beating from the skater punks. Something like that might teach him some sense though.
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:22 am
Yeah well, your being stereotypical. Emo isnt a fashion or what you think of because of what people say or act; it is a “feeling”. You wouldn’t understand unless you took the time and had some heart to realize what kind of people “emo” people really are.
June 28th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
EmoBoy, she’s stereotypical, the world is sterotypical! That’s what make’s it suck so much, I just wish that people could actually get along for once. And that people could actually aknowledge emo’s as the treasure they are and what they bring to this world. It’s a damn lot more than Evelyn’s bringing to this blog.
July 1st, 2007 at 4:53 pm
EmoBoy, your statement fits into the stereotype, and i’d rather it be just clothes and makeup, that’s allright, it’s the “feeling” that annoys me, you bitch on and on about nothing, meanwhile there’s lots of people who have actual problems and you’re just bringing them further down by insisting that the world’s a shitty place. Your emotions are chemical reactions to things happening around you, they’re absolutely meaningless, i hope this saddens you to the point that you’ll actually stop talking about killing yourself and take action.
July 1st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Oh and by the way, you have one more option: Start doing serious drugs, you’ll either be happy or die, it’s what we call a “win win” situation.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
emo is just the music….lol
May 16th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
emo guys have no lives and suck
November 10th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
dat guy is so fucked up he has no clue who the real emo are we “live” we cut and are ppl just not normal ppl
December 1st, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I think emo’s r fukin awsome. okay and if ur gunnna get on here and run urr mouths about emo’s and them being gay get ur asses off u have ur opinions and we have ours so shut the fuck uip and stop making fun of emo guys and giurls. im emo so what thats not something to make fun of cuz i cut my wrists and its fun.!so next time u wunna run ur mouths about how gay we are think about my words. EMO GUYS R SEXY! i’d kill too date one.!
January 4th, 2009 at 2:08 am
Im Emo,
But I Coudn’t Help But Laugh While I Was Reading The Last Paragraph.
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:27 am
I’ve been reading the articles on this website for an hour or two now and apart from laughing my ass off at the articles I’ve been disturbed by comments left by supposedly “pro-emo” people. For example on this page “emoboy” says emo isn’t a fashion but a feeling. On another page (dont cry emo!) people have said that people are labelled as “emo” because they are emotional while another on the same page (the famous XxDeadlyRosesxX) informs us that it all comes from music and I cant find the actual quote now but im sure i read a comment that said something along the lines of “I started cutting myself when i became emo a year ago.” I didn’t know you could be inducted into a sub-culture like some sort of religion, and it required things such as body mutilation and crying. Many people will probably start ranting at me about how i know “fuk(sic) all bout emo” but let me explain. I live in South Wales (next to England for all you Americans) and as such I feel I have a fairly in depth and unique perspective on the rise of emo. While I don’t pretend to know the history of american emo, when the “emo” made its way into Britain it settled in the South Wales valleys pretty well and the sparsely populated region suddenly changed from an area of two youth subcultures “Chavs” or “normal people” and “Moshers” or “anyone who listened to guitars.” It was simple back then, people like me were regularly called “Goff” or other such variations as we walked around town and we “Goffs” occasionally had to deal with violence meted out by gangs of roving “hoodies”. With the advent of Emo and the rise of Welsh emo bands such as Funeral for a Friend the imperfect balance has been upset and what was a roughly 70-30 Chav to Mosher mix has turned into a 20-20-60 chav to mosher to emo/metrosexual mix. I don’t mean to be reinforcing the “emo=gay” stereotype but unluckily for emo it came at a time when “certain” welsh men thought it acceptable to wear pink shirts, a definite “no-no” in my area that has been built into our subconscious over many years, and as such the “metrosexual” craze of men who use moisterizer (i cant even spell it) etc. has been swept up with the emo culture and they have become almost inseparable with “spice boys” being called emo for flamboyant hair or figure hugging jeans. Due to this incredibly fast and one sided change in youth demographic I have had the pleasure of having many emo friends. I admit, I often take the piss (FFAF are gay and so is ur haircut etc.) but its always meant in a friendly way the same way they call me “Goff” in reference to the sort of shared persecution we have suffered at the hands of “normal people”. Even though I hate emo music and emo fashion I have no problem with friends, relatives and people I dont know claiming to be or calling themselves emo because at the end of the day they are normal people (albeit normal people with really tight clothes). What I dislike about emos are those who refer to cutting themselves BECAUSE they are emo, or being depressed BECAUSE they are emo, or pretending to be bi-sexual BECAUSE they are emo (a previously close friend tried this one). Emo is not a lifestyle choice. Being gay is a lifestyle choice, living on a commune is a lifestyle choice, dressing like all you friends and listening to the same music as them is not a lifestyle choice, it is an attempt to “fit in”, safety in numbers and all that. I know some people will go mental when they read that but its true. When I was about 16 i “became” a goth. What that means is the Kerrang! channel came out on satellite and loads of my mates and myself thought it would be cool to wear black and grow our hair long. At the time i was making a “lifestyle choice”, I had to get the trenchcoat and rings and jewellery associated with being a goth. Now im older and wiser I see that it was just my way of fitting in. I still wear predominantly black and listen to much “heavier” music than i did back then but ive ditched the jewellery, trenchcoat and other “excessive” and to some “mandatory” displays of gothness. Its this idea, (which ive never observed in Wales apart from that one “bisexual” incident) that in order to “be” emo you have to do certain things that really annoys me about emos. While anti-emos like myself and the author of this site use emo stereotypes for (obvious) shits and giggles its the so called pro-emos that reinforce these dangerous stereotypes as serious facts
e.g.emo gurl Says:
November 10th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
dat guy is so fucked up he has no clue who the real emo are we "live" we cut and are ppl just not normal ppl
e.g. Shauntay Says:
December 1st, 2008 at 1:50 pm
……im emo so what thats not something to make fun of cuz i cut my wrists and its fun.!
Its these people that are giving parents and governments reason for concern. When they see these “emos”, or “posers” depending on your viewpoint, glorifying self harm and depression they become afraid for their 13 year old girl who just bought her first studded belt.
P.S. even though its a 20-20-60 Chav, mosher, emo mix most people on this site would be happy to hear it aint the chavs and moshers getting their heads kicked in on a regular basis round here.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
wow ur so stupid!! ur siting on ur ass all day just writing shit about stuff no one cares about!! get a life cuz no one cares what you think or say!!
February 27th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Then why the fuck did you respond Miranda? Ask yourself that.
Everyone cares about what I say because I speak the truth. Which is why you were compelled to utter your totally misinformed ‘opinion’. You were trying to impress me but failed miserably.
Be like a true woman and cook dinner for your man. Keep your mouth closed whilst you’re doing it too otherwise you’ll just embarrass yourself like you just did here.
March 22nd, 2009 at 2:46 am
No one understands that the first meaning of ‘emo’ was a genre of damn MUSIC.
May 12th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Alright, first off ‘Emo’ is a band movement. A bunch of idiotic kids probably came up with the Emo that is well known today. (The cutting, drinking, fashion, etc.) And for all you “Emo” kids, just stop posting! If you think this is an attack on you, click the exit button. Stop wasting your time typing useless words. YOU are entitled to your own opinion but, seriously? Get over it. Everyday people make fun of “Emo kids”. Don’t cry about it. People make fun of races, religions, and orientation. A lot of people died because of hate. Just stop crying about one person expressing their opinion. We listen to your opinions, now listen to ours.
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Emos are gay, here is my response to you - you are a sexist pig, and need to learn how to accept other people. Go back to pre-school and learn everyone is dofferent, and the whole fucking worl dosn’t revolve around fucking YOU. stop being such a jackass and learn that no one is here to impress the likes of you, they are simply here to moan! it’s fun, and it’s an emotional outlet. Deal. You need to learn to accept people for who they are if you wanna get anywhere in this god for saken world. And for once, why don’t YOU cook dinner for your woman, huh? Or are you above that? XD moaning is FUN