What is Emo?
Okay, so I was on Modthesims.info looking for furniture and houses and such for my sims. I had a particular person saved as a favorite creator because there was a lot that I really wanted. Unfortunately I don't remember who it was so I had to go through the people I had on the list. There was one that belonged to a 'Fashion Queens' group. I checked it out and then I saw the topic 'Prepare to be offended.' Being a curiousity cat I cliked the thread, then the link provided and read.
http://emodanger.co.cc/whatcanwedo.htm
I read the comments the people of the group had to say and they were appalled. Quite frankly, I'm not. I agree with the site almost entirely. Emo/scene has become the new overused and doesn't seem like it'd die out for a while. If you look up pictures on google and on photobucket, I'm guaranteed you'll find pics of some kid with black hair over his eyes, eyeliner, skinny jeans, and a band t-shirt. Personally I find majority of them posers. It's a stupid way to live, acting like the social outcast and like you hate the world. I've been there and back with this "culture". I'm sick of it.
Bracelets hide things, despite what comments say. I've seen it countless times with my friends. I've seen the scars and the marks. The wrists are a stupid place, in my opinion, and shouts "Hey, I was mad at my parents last night because they hate me!" When in reality the parents love them unconditionally ad the kid is just being stupid. Plus if you did happen to cut yourself for a serious problem, I think the thighs and other places that aren't visible are more understanding. You don't want to flaunt that you have scars becuse most people don't want anyone else to know they have a problem.
Okay, I continued reading comments and I have to say one in particular has me mad. I'm not going to say who it's by but I will post the comment:
"I apologize if anyone is offended, but i truly h a t e USA and how it's rebelling when a ssixteen-year old wears lipstick for the first time of her life. For Christ's sake, I dyed my hair black when I was twelve ... "
Okay first off, you're in Sweden. Second, you have no idea how wrong you are. The age for girls wearing lipstick and lipgloss gets younger and younger. Now-a-days it seems that girls are born and putting it on. Actually, I think girls wearing lipstick has ceased to exist. It's all about lipgloss. So shut your mouth.
Personally I think myspace and other things like that should be monitored by parents. I know this sounds stupid (with me being 16) but I'm glad my mom does, in some ways. Quite frankly I think if a parent doesn't at least every once in a while (not rarely) then there is something wrong with that parent. We are in a time where the "emo" fad kills thousands of teens because of some stupid thing that happened on myspace. Seriously. I hate reading articles where some girl was on myspace and got her heart broken so she either overdosed or cut her wrists in the bathtub and bled to death. I also hate reading about the parents that say "I don't understand why she did it. We gave her everything she wanted and we gave her complete freedom." And I believe that's the reason why she killed herself. No one checked her myspace page and saw that something serious was going on.
Man, this all has gotten me so mad that I don't even know what else to say. My stomach hurts, dangit. So yeah, that's about it. I'll probably go play Sims 2 (random note, simcredible site is down D: !) or something. I wanted to play America's Army 3 but it turns out it doesn't work on my computer after it downloaded! How awesome is that. Alright, I'm goin'.
Tata, LiveJournal.