Why are emos hated?

[Heart of Darkness]

Because, in short, they are acceptable targets [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AcceptableTargets], like feminists and furries. It COULD be because some of them are attention whores, but I don't know exactly why. This page [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AcceptableLifestyleTargets] could be beneficial to you if you want to find out why.

 

[hurfdurp]

Because their favourite accessory is acne.

 

[JPH330]

I think we have a closet emo on our hands...

 

[espada1311]

Heres my input. its simple easy and what most people want to ignore.

It's easy to make fun of whatever is different, and to these same people its wrong by them to not be exactly like them. thats what it is. not being whiney or crap, its because people want to sling shit at people and those who are different make easy targets.

as for emos not defending themselves, why the hell would they need to? if they are a genuine emo, you cant throw at them anything worse than they have already experienced. not to mention they realize that the quickest way to get punched is by opening your mouth.

 

[tobi the good boy]

i dont hate anyone unless they can prove to me that they are worth hating, that means i hate indiviuals not groups.

However, i have met people who can be classed as "emo" and i disliked them for the simple fact they are overdramatic whingers, they can complain like their lives suck because their hair was done wrong when there are starving children in africa being besieged by civil war.

But im certain there are many people who can be classed as 'emo' and would be decent human bengs.

 

[P-mac]

Because they're whiny teenagers with horrible taste in clothes, hair styles and music, who cry about how hard it is being an upper middle-class white kid in a developed nation.

 

[Snowalker]

Not the cut-up-your-arm emo, the real emo.

The cut up your arm emo is the real emo, what you're talking about is a knock-off goth. Which is just that much more pathetic.

 

[Judgement101]

I'm sorta emo and I'm not hated for that. I'm hated because I dislike Halo, on an unrelated note I picked up Halo: Reach and it was AAWWEESSOOMMEE!!

 

[D0WNT0WN]

I dislike emo "culture" because apparently in our weird world today dressing in dark clothing, winging about how their life is unbearable and genrally acting misanthropic is mistaken with being a tortured and therefore deep person when in reality they are just ungrateful attention whores.

In my line of work I have met people who have been through alot in their lifetime and they dont spend their time writing dark poetry and listening to Linkin Park.

 

[The Geek Lord]

You know, I've been downright depressed for a while. I'm starting to wonder if I'm emo, since my life is kind of awesome and everything, but I hate myself and everyone around me anyway.

Because they are whiny little brats that complain about how bad their lives are when other people have it so much worse... I went to school with a bunch of them and one said that all he got was a PS3 for christmas, and that was when they were $800.

... Okay, never mind, I'm just depressed.

I hate emos because of the above reason. Whiny dipshits. Enough said.

 

[Neonbutterscotch]

i got lectured from an emo not long ago for apologising for nudging them passing buy, i think ungrateful sums it up

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Some of my best friends are emo.
Not the cut-up-your-arm emo, the real emo.
They're cool.

So, my only answer is... well, we have to pick on someone!
Why not the ones that are already emotional?

This guy makes a point. Are you talking about the hate for 'emos' or emos. Because there's a pretty big difference between the uneducated generalisation on emo culture and actual emo culture.

All the hate seems to be aimed at what the precieved idea of an emo is. People hate the skinny jean toting, black with radical or no highlights, pale skinned, eyeliner wearing, wrist slitting, constantly depressed false emo.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Banana Phone Man]

and dispise the conformus...

Um isn't choosing to be an emo conforming?

I don't hate them but to me they can just seem a bit pathetic. The ones I've seen just seem to go suicidal over anything slightly bad and over react to anything else. They just annoy me and feel a bit like attention whores.

 

[-Ulven-]

Emo's are hated beacuse they are a group that is easy to pick on and popular to look down on. Lotsa people act like sheep and follow simple commands and inds it easy to belong by hating a common group. I guess...

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I don't really hate them, I just hate attention seekers.

Nailed it.

Attention through image rather than something of substance too...extra distasteful.

Hating people is recreation.

edit to clarify: Recreational hating is like hating someone because they're infront of you in line, or you don't like their clothing, it's not the same as justified hatred...and doesn't feel the same either.

I might recreationally hate people for wanky clothing or corny tattoos. But I know I hate my brother because he's an asshole...it's just not the same thing.

 

[Mikeyfell]

I really don't know
they make good music

maybe they get so much hate because they keep Hot Topic in business

 

[mikecoulter]

I don't really hate them, I just hate attention seekers.

Nailed it.

Attention through image rather than something of substance too...extra distasteful.

Hating people is recreation.

Very well put there.

I suppose some of them at least make the effort to write hate poems. That must count for something.

 

[Oilerfan92]

The fact that many of them have decent lives. Yet complain how bad their lives are.

They talk about how original and non-conformist. Yet emo is such a huge culture it is conforming and not original.

 

[the_bearpelt]

Actually, what bothers me about Emos is the fact that they made suicide a fashion statement. That just bothers me, I'm sorry. You can't trivialize something as serious as depression or suicide much more than by making it a FASHION STATEMENT. It makes a mockery of depression in general.