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shut up emo haters!

  • Emo is a fad!
    "Emotion or emotional es expressing how you feel in if a tragedy happened. Emo is if that tragedy is that the mall is closed early." A friend told me that and I think it's the best quote ever. It seems true. If you like the music and the style, fine. If you are depressed, I understand, get help because that's what depression requires assistance (I would know I've been there). If you're cutting yourself, again get help, it's self mutilation, it's not a trend it's a problem (again been there). If you tell me cutting is ok, because it helps you deal, you're in denial and need a therapist pronto.

    Overall emo has crossed a line. People label themselves emo for attention (that's what any label is for, I labeled myself goth long ago, for attention, as do millions of people every day. Grow out of the label and be yourself). If you're not mature enough to say, I'm me and you can't label me, because I'm not a sheep and don't follow trends, then you deserve what you get. Grow Up! You're a teenager, you live at home, and your parents pay for your food, clothes, and everything else you own, you don't have many responsibilities beyond school, what in the world is so terrible for you?

    If your parents beat you, or they drink, or they neglect you, go get help, those are serious problems and instead of cutting you should be getting help from a counselor or some other adult. If none of those are in your life, shut up and quit whining, we all have problems. If your significant other dumped you, get over it and find someone new. If some other teen drama in you life is making you cut, deal with it!. Seriously this 'movement' is getting out of hand, and causing kids (13 year old kids) to cut and be faux depressed because that's getting them attention. Stop it, emo is not a movement, it's a fad. Grow up, ditch the label and be whatever you are.

    If what you are is depressed, a self-mutilator, or with some other problem that fits the emo label, then get actual help. Other than that, stop whining until you have bills to pay, a job to hold down, responsibilities before your spouse, or your kids, and until you're out on your own and really screwed because you can't find a job. Till then, be a teen, deal with the pains of growing up the way we all do and stop whining. Yes it's confusing, yes it's hard, but deal with it. We all did and do!
    50%  Voted for by IvoryRose, Stella Cadente, natas6devi.
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  • real emo
    im emo and u people who categorize are jerks!
    this is bullcrap, i am tired of all you people not stopping to understand people like me, you just put a label on us and think all of us are like the people out there who use emo as an excuse for attention. i mean seriously so what if we are constantly depressed? or if we feel so depressed to the point of cutting. and no matter what age you are (this is for you samantha) you can be emo. but to be emo is to truely be unhappy with your life and are at wits end not wanting to deal with the harsh humanity that rejected us in the first place. so you all need to realize its the only way to live that makes sense to us and if that makes us stupid so be it because it comforts us in beleiving so, and besides why would you care anyways? its not like we are affecting you by secluding ourselves and dressing the way we want to and listening to the music we want to.
    33%  Voted for by Emo1, WAHRevolution.
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  • ?
    OK, you're categorizing yourself. First you say " I'm an emo" and then "Don't put a label on us"..when you are the one who just labeled him/herself.
    You're not an emo, you're a person like everyone else. There is no need to start "social revolutions", all people are the same, all of us have emotions, feelings...some of us choose to "play it cool" and not show them, while others choose to be a bit drastic. But, deep down, in essence, we are ALL the same...fragile creatures who have cold of the unknown, fragile creatures who NEED love.
    Voted for by Stella Cadente.
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