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Beware of "Emos"

Malakaiii
edited March 2007 in General
This newsclip astounds me

Evidently emo is the new goth. Parents, watch your children for tight pants and the consumption of black coffee cuz they might try to kill themselves... for points.

Sooo sooo many things make me sad about the society that feeds on "news" like this. no.gif

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  • toast
    edited March 2007
    dont worry! theres emo rangers

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=TjmOK4TTvwg

    lmfao
  • siuying
    edited March 2007
    that's unfortunately the reality..

    the thing is growing up is hard.. and parents don't realize that what they've gone through as a child back then isn't what their child goes through now.. in the past words about child depression, suicidal rates, drug abuse are suppressed.. cast out of the limelight.. but now that these symptoms are becoming more evident in children.. the society has finally learned to pay attn to it.. and parents should take the hint too.. because when everything boils down.. there's nothing more important than the well being of children that are to become the future of parents and the society...

    growing up is even harder when you don't have a hand to hold or someone to depend on when you're lost... perhaps parents should slow down with their fast-paced lives and look around.. sometimes life isn't all that great for children with what they know about the world..
  • Pro
    edited March 2007
    i think i would be more worried about hippies and tree huggers. cuz they are criminals, like that granny who got sent to jail for criminal contempt hahahaha.
  • Malakaiii
    edited March 2007
    I'm just shocked that the people who wrote the news story (and probably a lot of viewers as well), thought things like "How Emo Are You?" quizzes and things that were created to be a joke (the cut your wrist cuttingboard, the Emo Emu, etc), were actually serious.

    I wonder how many parents freaked out at their kids for wearing tight jeans after that... Yikes...
  • Messiah
    edited March 2007
    It was only a matter of time before the media started villifying these kids. Remember, individuality is only acceptable if you behave just like everyone else. Mind you, I think these kids are dip shits, but it's their right to be dip shits. If they had parents who actually communicated with them, or they lived in communities that were condusive to raising confident youth, they wouldn't have to resort to thinking that tight jeans and razor blades are the way out.
  • Malakaiii
    edited March 2007
    I think it's a shame that they are grouping everyone who dresses similar, or has similar haircuts. Not all of these kids are suicidal, and there are plenty that dress "normal" who are.

    I guess the fear of goth kids wore off, so they have a new monster now...
  • toast
    edited March 2007
    Razor knives for sale!! Come get them cheap here!!
  • Magnificent_BastardMagnificent_Bastard
    edited March 2007
    emo.jpg
  • meeshmeesh
    edited March 2007
    now i'm not saying all "Emos" are like this,
    but I personally knew a group of kids in high school that I was genuinely worried about (i was their peer counsellor, and they were younger than me). they wore everything that could be described as "emo" but these kids, they were actually self-destructive. they were cutting, and they were abusing hardcore drugs like cocaine. one very striking young man was literally withering away...his skin was so pale...
    anyway, what I'm trying to say is although that news clip shows how oblivious adults are to today's culture and even if that clip is grouping together people who dress/look similar, i think it is still important for parents to be conscious of what their children MAY or MAY NOT be up to. some parents might freak out if their kid is dressing "emo" but isn't it better to have them worried then to find out too late that perhaps their kid was involved with self-destructive behaviour (because it does happen).
  • Malakaiii
    edited March 2007
    Great, great points Meesh. :smile:

    On that note, there are lots of kids who DON'T dress that way that may be engaging in self-destructive or suicidal behaviours. Parents should try to understand their kid instead of typecasting them...

    It's so, so sad to see those parents who have just lost a child to suicide say "He was such a good boy... he was popular, he had a girlfriend, he was on the basketball team... we don't know how this happened!" It's not like these things come completely out of left field!
  • meeshmeesh
    edited March 2007
    I agree with you on that Malakaii!
    I think parents are held accountable on some level for their kids behaviours...i really do think that when I hear "we don't know how this happened" it's partially due to the fact that some parents don't try to understand their kids. and instead, take certain behaviours like a grain of salt and blame it on society.

    like that Dawson College shooter, i kept hearing on the news that he had a normal childhood, etc etc and his relatives didn't see this coming...but isn't his obsession with guns, his anti-social behaviour a giveaway that there was something wrong?

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