spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Do let me be the first to admit to being so square as to
admit I don't get it. I googled on Emo and learned of yet another genre of
music that I just don't understand, but what that has to do with the apparently
abused young lady is beyond my comprehench. Please someone who is younger
and/or far more hip, do explain. Johnny?</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">spike</font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Think of it along the lines of Goth, in that it is both a youth subculture and a genre of music. Emo is famous for having lyrics complaining about how rotten and unfair life is, and especially how women will do you wrong and totally break your heart, which of course happens to be true. ; ) <br>
<br>John<br><br><h2><span class="mw-headline">Taken from Wikipedia:</span></h2><h2><span class="mw-headline"> Fashion and stereotype</span></h2>
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<div class="thumbinner" style="width: 202px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fringe.jpg" class="image" title="Long fringe (bangs) brushed to one side"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/Fringe.jpg/200px-Fringe.jpg" class="thumbimage" border="0" height="171" width="200"></a>
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Long <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_%28hair%29" title="Fringe (hair)">fringe</a> (bangs) brushed to one side</div>
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<p>Today emo is more commonly tied to fashion than to music,<sup id="cite_ref-3news_16-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-3news-16" title=""><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a></sup> and the term "emo" is sometimes stereotyped with tight <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans" title="Jeans">jeans</a> on males and females alike, long <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_%28hair%29" title="Fringe (hair)">fringe</a> (bangs) brushed to one side of the face or over one or both eyes, dyed black, straight hair, tight <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shirt" title="T-shirt">t-shirts</a> (sometimes short sleeved) which often bear the names of emo bands (or other designer shirts), studded <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_%28clothing%29" title="Belt (clothing)">belts</a>, belt buckles, canvas sneakers or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skate_shoes" title="Skate shoes">skate shoes</a> or other black shoes (often old and beaten up) and thick, black <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn-rimmed_glasses" title="Horn-rimmed glasses">horn-rimmed glasses</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-knot_magazine_17-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-knot_magazine-17" title=""><span>[</span>18<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-incendiary_magazine_18-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-incendiary_magazine-18" title=""><span>[</span>19<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gurl_magazine_19-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-gurl_magazine-19" title=""><span>[</span>20<span>]</span></a></sup> This fashion has at times been characterized as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fads_and_trends" title="Fads and trends" class="mw-redirect">fad</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-fairfield_20-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-fairfield-20" title=""><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a></sup></p>
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<div class="thumbinner" style="width: 202px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Trosity2.jpg" class="image" title="Another example of hair characteristic of emo"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e4/Trosity2.jpg/200px-Trosity2.jpg" class="thumbimage" border="0" height="150" width="200"></a>
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Another example of hair characteristic of emo</div>
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<p>In recent years the popular media has associated emo with a
stereotype that includes being emotional, sensitive, shy, introverted,
or angsty.<sup id="cite_ref-findingemo_21-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-findingemo-21" title=""><span>[</span>22<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-22" title=""><span>[</span>23<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-23" title=""><span>[</span>24<span>]</span></a></sup> It is also associated with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_%28mood%29" title="Depression (mood)">depression</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-injury" title="Self-injury">self-injury</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-daily_mail_24-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-daily_mail-24" title=""><span>[</span>25<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-25" title=""><span>[</span>26<span>]</span></a></sup> <a name="Criticism" id="Criticism"></a></p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline">Criticism</span></h2>
<p>In 2008, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Magazine" title="Time Magazine" class="mw-redirect">Time Magazine</a> reported that "anti-emo" groups attacked teenagers in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Quer%C3%A9taro" title="Santiago de Querétaro" class="mw-redirect">Querétaro</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana" title="Tijuana">Tijuana</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-26" title=""><span>[</span>27<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-27" title=""><span>[</span>28<span>]</span></a></sup> One of Mexico's foremost critics of emo was Kristoff, a music presenter on the popular TV channel Telehit.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Way" title="Gerard Way">Gerard Way</a>, the lead singer of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Chemical_Romance" title="My Chemical Romance">My Chemical Romance</a> stated in an interview that "emo is a pile of shit", and that his band was never emo.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-28" title=""><span>[</span>29<span>]</span></a></sup> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_at_the_Disco" title="Panic at the Disco">Panic at the Disco</a> also stated in an interview with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NME" title="NME">NME</a>: "emo is bullshit."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-29" title=""><span>[</span>30<span>]</span></a></sup> These two bands, however, tend to be classified as emo.</p>
<p>Fans of emo are criticized for purported displays of emotion common in the scene. Complaints pointed to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder" title="Histrionic personality disorder">histrionic</a> manner in which the emotions were expressed.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-30" title=""><span>[</span>31<span>]</span></a></sup></p>
<p>In October 2003, a <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_Planet" title="Punk Planet">Punk Planet</a></i>
contributor leveled the charge that the current era of emo was sexist.
Hopper argued that where bands such as Jawbox, Jawbreaker and Sunny Day
Real Estate had characterized women in such a way that they were not
"exclusively defined by their absence or lensed through
romantic-specter",<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-31" title=""><span>[</span>32<span>]</span></a></sup>
contemporary bands approached relationship issues by "damning the girl
on the other side ... its woman-induced misery has gone from being
descriptive to being prescriptive." Regarding the position of women
listening to emo, the contributor went on to note that the music had
become "just another forum where women were locked in a stasis of
outside observation, observing ourselves through the eyes of others."</p>
<p>Critics of modern emo have argued that there is a tendency toward increasingly generic and homogenized style.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-32" title=""><span>[</span>33<span>]</span></a></sup></p>
<p>Emo music has been blamed for the suicide by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging" title="Hanging">hanging</a>
of Hannah Bond by both the coroner at the inquest into her death and
her mother, Heather Bond, after it was claimed that emo music
glamorized suicide and her apparent obsession with My Chemical Romance
was said to be linked to her suicide. The inquest heard that she was
part of an internet "emo" cult <sup id="cite_ref-thesun_33-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-thesun-33" title=""><span>[</span>34<span>]</span></a></sup> and her <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebo" title="Bebo">Bebo</a> page contained an image of an 'emo girl' with bloody wrists.<sup id="cite_ref-nme_34-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-nme-34" title=""><span>[</span>35<span>]</span></a></sup> It was also revealed that she had discussed "the glamour of hanging" online<sup id="cite_ref-thesun_33-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-thesun-33" title=""><span>[</span>34<span>]</span></a></sup> and had explained to her parents that her <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_harming" title="Self harming" class="mw-redirect">self harming</a> was an "emo initiation ceremony".<sup id="cite_ref-nme_34-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-nme-34" title=""><span>[</span>35<span>]</span></a></sup>
Heather Bond criticised emo fashion, saying: "There are 'emo' websites
that show pink teddies hanging themselves." After the verdict was
reported in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NME" title="NME">NME</a>, fans of emo music contacted the magazine to defend against accusations that it promotes self harm and suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-35" title=""><span>[</span>36<span>]</span></a></sup></p>
In Russia, a law has been presented at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duma" title="Duma">Duma</a>
to regulate emo websites and forbid emo style at schools and government
buildings, for fears of emo being a "dangerous teen trend" promoting
anti-social behaviour, depression, social withdrawal and even suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-36" title=""><span>[</span>37<span>]</span></a></sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo#cite_note-37" title=""><span></span></a> <br>
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