Oooh, another fun thread. What do you think of emos? I don't like them. But it's not their silly tight pants or vision-impairing hairstyles or uninspired music that bothers me. Nay, what bothers me is their values, I suppose you could say. All of a sudden it's cool to be depressed, write bad poetry and be a drama queen. In general, they seem to be attention-whore crybabies who blow everything out of proportion.

Highschool crush doesn't like you because your tight pants have crushed your manhood? Cut and whine about it to your equally emo friends! Mommy didn't give you an advance on your allowance so you could buy the new My Chemical Romance CD? Write fake suicide notes and tell everyone your life is terrible.

It's an entire subculture of being self-centered. Nobody's life or family is worse than yours, even if you have a plush, suburban life with parents who provide for you. It's common to see black kids at your school or workplace who work their ass off to be better off than their single parent on welfare or to help out the financial situation at home. Do you never see them writing bad poetry about it and cutting? No.

A very bad side effect emo culture has is the general mindset people gain about cutters and depressed people. Alot of people cut because they have serious problems at home, or are depressed because of issues at home or school or simply cannot help it because of chemical imbalances in the brain. Thanks to emos cutting and going all mopey and "depressed" over the most trivial reasons, truly depressed people and cutters are thrown into the category of emo and aren't taken seriously. As a side note, I'll admit it's hard to not automatically categorize someone like that as emo, but there's usually a good way of telling who's emo and who isn't: emos go around showing off their cuts and talking about how crappy things are, the truly depressed or cutters don't.

Another thing that annoys me about emo is that it's suddenly trendy to be bi. I myself am bisexual, and I think emos fail to realize what being bisexual entails and what that word means. It doesn't mean I R KISSING ANDROGYNOUS BOY I CAN PRETEND IS GRL, it means you would gladly do MUCH more with someone of the same sex.

So anyway, I'm done, I'll probably think of more later. Added a nifty poll for you guys.