I remember when being emotional was just being a normal teen

well the emo-music thing was really confusing to me as well :tongue:

but as far as the trend though
it's a bunch of kids that listen to whiny music, whine a lot, wear gloomy clothes/make up, think it's cool to be sad, 'cut' (most of them do more of scratching than anything), and just love to advertise how terrible their life is (and as with most teens, it's not usually that terrible)

I always noticed the people with the worse lives were always the ones that hated emos
the people with the worst lives are usually the hip hop crowd and the metal/punk crowd it seems (round these parts at least)
both crowds just love to beg for trouble though

but yeah, so people have lots of contempt for emos, because they bitch and whine when other people are way worse off
and so being 'emo' is quite an insult to those people
plus, they are just easy to make fun of

 

so preps are those kids that think they're really clever yeah?
I'm not up on the lingo
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prep is short for "preppy", originally meaning someone attending prep school. typically applied to snobbish, superficial people of wealth and privilege.

 

like the tv prgramme OC
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^exactly

 

maybe they're all emo about not being preppy enough
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well, usually it's people who would be preps (have the privelleged part down), but just couldn't fit in

 

:lol:

 

haha.

EMO , was it a style people noticed that these kids happened to be emotional and thanks to the media it has a snowball effect, causing widespread emo madness based on some clothing?

 

Just thinking out loud here, doubt it makes any sense cause im about to fall asleep at the keyboard.

If someone is the stereotypical emo, then they're being considered as being all alone, and misunderstood. But by categorizing themselves as emo, aren't they being accepted into a culture where others are in the same situation and they understand each other?

My theory; to be a "true emo", you can't be "emo"

PS: feel free to slap me if i make no sense

 

well, we mock the emos because they have no reason whatsoever to be sad, so far as those of us being abused by alcoholic parents and such would consider it. it's not the sadness, it's the accessorizing. if you can afford anything from hot topic, you have no reason to cry.

 

you cant be rich and sad? cant afford new clothes and ahve anyh justification to cry? i know what you mean but the way you said it... one o fmy friends, when she was younger... her father used to hit her and to apologize/beg forgiveness he would give her lots an dlots of money.. so she could afford a lot of stuff (including stuff from hot topic) but believe me, she had reason to cry

 

just sayin, if you have to make a big show of accessorizing to it, there's something else entirely going wrong there. you're selfish, you're self-centered, you're bored, and you need a new hobby.

 

ooooooooooo I like it, waiting for the emos to start complaining and calling us immature :bigear:

 

i guess its a way for all those teens who feel alone to feel not alone.

profound i know.

 

ticked off and annoyed is always better than pathetic and pouting.

 

but to be able to just go on about still feeling alone at the same time
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make a fad of it, too.

 

sorry but i've never reguarded trusting emotions as "normal" for anyone of any age. growing up in high school and then in the air force, spock was my roll model. the one on star trek, not the baby doctor.

with one important difference. that being that i didn't try to deny or totally repress my enotions, i just refused to trust them any further then i could throw them. and still don't entirely.

it's not a matter of emotion OR objectivity, but the statistical integration of both.
come to think of it, isn't that more or less one deffinition of sanity?

i just find, feel that, wallowing in emotion, is just as false and phoney as denying them.

the're there. they serve a purpose. enjoy them.
but i really could never entirely trust them if i wanted to.
and no, my adolescent years did NOT consist of doing so.
if anything, it was always my parents and their generation that i saw as being overly emotional and emotion driven.

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