Alright, let the flames begin *ducks in cover*
I consider myself a halfbreed of emo and hXc-ish sub cultures, or groups or whatever you wish to classify them as.
First of all, I'm not here to be like YOUR WRONG, cause honestly I think in every subculture or genre of people you get a lot of morons, now the common assumption is that emo kids are always depressed and nagging about their horrible lives (Which is definately false, there are some but honestly who hasn't had those days, and what "culture." dosn't have these people.)
My theory after close observation is that there are 2 kinds of emo kids, you got the attension plea peeps, and the people who actually like the genre, the cloths, the style and the music and wanna have fun with it or relate to people with similar beleifs, the inital beleif being emotion which ideally everyone is "emo." because of emotions but most or what is assumed to me that emo kids consider themselves for emotional and/or sensative than other people. It's a very diverse group and interpereted differently by everyone. Now, about the depression thing, like I said, attension wanna be pathetic beings, and of course purebreeds ( xD ) but basicly, say at my local mall, these "emo kids." will go up to eachother and be like hey I just cut myself last night, and the others are like oh me 2! and they show eachother and laugh and crap, thats just messed, and stupid, if you are ACTUALLY depressed, and cut yourself and stuff, I think these people need help, if they actually have problems and are going through hard times, these people shouldn't be shunned or looked down upon for being in a hard spot and cause they are in a sub culture or genre. Don't you think thats counter productive? Yes there is a large poser part of this genre and it maddens me to the extent of not wanting to assosiate myself with the genre -_-. Also, not all emo kids cut, depressed kids cut, like in all gernres and cultures normal or not people who kill themselves are depressed which is only a part of emo culture, because it's an EMOTION, lots of kids wind up falling into this because lifes tough yah know, and lots of poser kids like to say ohhh im so sad to get help and attension when they reallllyyyy don't need it. True depressed and cutting people are more prevelant in this genre because of thw whole emphisis on emotion factor from what I gather, and kids liek dressing in black when they're sad, haha. As for style, chick pants are a no for me, baggy black everything I just love the hair, and most of the life style.
But yeah, thats a constructive insight as to my experiences and observations of the genre, for all the people who jsut hate "emo kids." over assumptions your just as bad as the people who plea for attension in this genre cause honestly your most likely jsut saying that to look cool to your peers, liek I udnerstand people who hate the stereotype of bitching all the time when you don't got problems, but yeah case and point we're not all depressed, or retards pleaing for attension. Constructive questioning and reasoning is welcome if your just gunna flame me you can rot in the deepest pits of hell, you contridicting equally worthless waste of fleash lmao.
P.S. People who see this and ignore this posts exsistance and still acclaim hated towards the emo culture without considering anything i've just said, your a fool ;D