Emo
Okay, something's been irritating me lately. But from that title, it's not what you think.
It's not emos, or such, not what you'd expect to be irritating about emos.
It's that now ANY sign of negative emotion has people calling you emo.
And it's really irritating.
Think about it, if someone writes off a depressive blog, they get labelled 'being emo', if someone says something bad, it's not uncommon to hear 'I don't mean to sound emo'. It annoys me because it suddenly disallows you from having negative emotions without suddenly having this stupid tag stuck on you.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have any urge to spill out my guts over some major catastrophe any time soon, it's just something I noticed. Human beings are losing their ability to cry (not literal crying) because when we do, it gets written off as 'emo' and generally ignored, or even worse, looked down upon.
Yes, a lot of people cry for attention (again, not meaning literal tears), but I have a worry that real people's problems get written off as being emo and ignored.
The interesting thing is, this doesn't apply to anything specific. At all. I'm actually just thinking from all the times I've heard the phrase 'emo' thrown around in the last couple of months. So I'm not thinking of anybody specifically, it's just something that struck me.
Least it meant I could blog on something.
It's not emos, or such, not what you'd expect to be irritating about emos.
It's that now ANY sign of negative emotion has people calling you emo.
And it's really irritating.
Think about it, if someone writes off a depressive blog, they get labelled 'being emo', if someone says something bad, it's not uncommon to hear 'I don't mean to sound emo'. It annoys me because it suddenly disallows you from having negative emotions without suddenly having this stupid tag stuck on you.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have any urge to spill out my guts over some major catastrophe any time soon, it's just something I noticed. Human beings are losing their ability to cry (not literal crying) because when we do, it gets written off as 'emo' and generally ignored, or even worse, looked down upon.
Yes, a lot of people cry for attention (again, not meaning literal tears), but I have a worry that real people's problems get written off as being emo and ignored.
The interesting thing is, this doesn't apply to anything specific. At all. I'm actually just thinking from all the times I've heard the phrase 'emo' thrown around in the last couple of months. So I'm not thinking of anybody specifically, it's just something that struck me.
Least it meant I could blog on something.
posted by Li at 1:33 AM
6 Comments:
Agreed! And there's not much else I can say about that, 'cause you basically mentioned everything I think about this. Emo. Pff! We even use that word in Norwegian now!
Stop being emo and start being GINGER-LEIGH!!!!!!
I'm not being emo OR ginger-Leigh, dammit!
good points there leigh, however, this website shows how emo SHOULD be interpreted :p teehee, play the game
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=96880415
Personally I think you miss the point. It isn't how people use emo to represent being a depressing whiney little bitch but why in Gods green earth do they wear such tight jeans? I mean seriously! Their genitals must be aching at the end of the day! It isn't right. For the love of god people think of your penis's! Think about them!
I'm not complaining about emos at all.
That's not the point.
The point IS that the attitude is seen as emo.
But to the extent now that if you say something depressive, people write you off as emo instead of taking your complaints so literally, and look down on it.
Of course, people DO whine for attention, yes. That's where the emo stereotype came from and why people have the negative view of it.
But it annoys me now that when people whine or have a problem that isn't just done for attention people say stuff like 'Oh, stop being emo' and such. It means things are now written off under this gigantic label of 'emo'.
In this case, it's all about the attitude.
The jeans are a mystery.
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