Why are emos hated?

[EeveeElectro]

They don't understand how good they have it and under appreciation is a shitty personality trait. There's one whiny ***** on my Facebook who I used to be good friends with, who now keeps constantly complaining about his emo slut of a girlfriend. They're the ones who will most likely say something like, "I can't open a tin of beans... FML :'("

 

[Trogdor1138]

Because they're whiny immature attention seeking little shits who are among the most privileged people in the whole world but think they have it bad.

It would be an eye opener to ship them off to a third world country or even a communist run country for a day to show them what it really means to feel like they have no hope.

 

[Nomanslander]

Because there's enough people in this world with real issues, hell I've had to deal with my melancholy now for the longest time, over 10 years to be exact but I ain't complaining. Watching a group of teenagers act depressed because they think it's cool and it'll get them attention is about the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life....-_-

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

Because they're not actually sad and depressed, but they complain about being sad and depressed anyway because it sounds more legit than complaining about your hard life living in the suburbs in a middle-class home with caring parents and no physical or mental ailments. Their stupid pity ploy has the same effect as nineteen people charging into an emergency room, spattered in fake blood and howling in pain, insisting that they've been gravely wounded: it's pathetic, and if you're sitting there with a bullet in your abdomen, the medical staff are going to waste a fuckton of time in triage before they get around to dealing with the actual problem, at which point it may be too late to save you.

Also, the music sucks.

 

[Cherry Cola]

I don't hate them, I just don't care much for them.

To me, Emos are just teenie boppers with a color swap.

 

[Sindaine]

Probably because they're viewed as having an innapropriately-dramatic reaction to minor trials ('Uh-baw my girlfriend broke up with me I shall cut myself!!!1' 'Waaaaah my car won't start I need to sit in the dark sobbing to The Cure!' that kind of thing) and as not DOING anything to fix their problems. They just come across as big helpless, annoying babies.

 

[WrongSprite]

I don't hate them, because most of the time people hating them is utter random discrimination. People have taken a dislike to me, and called me emo kid, because my hair is of medium length. What a load of shit. I have brightly coloured clothes, and I like death metal and folk, hardly befitting of an emo. I'm also quite pleased with my life.

 

[Casimir_Effect]

I hate emos as they're typically middle-class white kids who don't know how good they have life compared to so many other people in the world. The worst most of them will suffer is some bullying at school. Man-the-fuck-up! They are not: being persecuted, starving, diseased, under a dictatorship, in constant fear of robbery, rape, mutilation, murder, homelessness etc (add to the list kids!). So much shit happens to so many people in this world that I cannot stand whiny little pricks who mostly do it for attention or because mummy and daddy wouldn't buy them a (insert stupid luxury here) when they were younger.

 

[Shock and Awe]

1. They are incredibly whiny. Most emos actually have pretty good lives, they just ***** a lot.

2. They are hypocrites. They despise conformity yet conform almost exactly whiten their group.

 

[zehydra]

Funny thing is, is that people who dress 'emo' usually aren't sad people, they just like the fashion.

 

[Snowalker]

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.

That... doesn't make sense.
The emo isn't a knock-off goth.
An emo is a person who dresses in dark clothes and listens to emo rock.

And that is the real emo, seeing as that definition came first.

No, thats the recent definition. Emo mean Emotional, as in they have mood swings, or are unnaturally depressed, and they cut themselves. The people who dress in dark clothes and emo rock ARE knock-off goths, regardless of how you pres-eve emo.

 

[Bruin]

I've known all three of those groups: Cutters, anorexics and alcoholics.
Cutting is different than anorexia. It's done for different purposes; their goals are different.
Cutting is different from alcoholism. Again, done for different purposes and alcoholism is an addiction.
Cutting is a bad fad, done for attention and those who seriously try to kill themselves are either bonkers or cowards.
It's not a real sickness. It's a sickness you create when you want to whore your body out for attention and when you almost intentionally let emotions get the entirety of you. That's why you don't see many adults cutting themselves.

Ok...
No, you do not know cutters if those you know do it for attention.
Yes, there are quite a lot of adults who do it. Maybe they are not as eager to shove it in your face.
Of course the sicknesses are different, and done for different "reasons".
Point is, if you are addicted to something, physically, or in this case, mentally, this constitutes a sickness. And yes, pain can be an addiction, a very powerfull one at that.

You do not see adults cut themselves, because if they do, they hide it.
That is not attention seeking then, is it.
And it has absolutely nothing to do with beeing suicidal, it is in fact the opposite in some sense. The crux is that you do it to live.

Do not go to teenagers for experience with these things, I would say...

All of the cutters I have known in my life have done it for attention. A little common bond they can share with their other emo friends while they listen to System of a Down in their basements.

There is an elephant behind you. You just can't see it, so it must be there.

The first one isn't a sickness. It's not a mental disorder. Anorexia is a skewed vision of yourself as overweight. No matter how much weight you lose, you constantly believe you're overweight. You keep starving yourself and eat less and less as your frustration builds. Alcoholism is an addiction to--You guessed it--Alcohol. The feeling of being drunk is too elating and self-satisfying for you to go too long without a drink.

In any case--attention seeking cutting or pain-pleasure cutting are still self-inflicted and self-created. You have nobody to blame but yourself for being a dumbass and putting daddy's razor on your wrists.

 

[lacktheknack]

"You don't understand my pain." YES I FREAKING DO, BUT I DON'T GET ALL PISSY ABOUT IT BECAUSE I'VE BEEN DISAPPOINTED.

That said, I don't hate emos, they just have annoying attitude problems.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Because they try and imitate Goth's but fail to do so.

 

[fundayz]

Emos are hated because they represent the worst about teenagers. They are self-centered, self-pitying, unoriginal teenagers, who think that being "underground" and "rebellious" makes them special. Also, many of them think that because they are outcasts they are somehow "misunderstood" when they are just annoying little sh*theads.

Not all emos a bad however, some of them are pleasant human beings. It also happens that these "emos" actually dress, look, and act they way they do because thats who they are; not because what their favorite band/totally rad friend looks like.

Oh I almost forgot, many of them have a horrible sense of humor.

 

[Crystalite]

In any case--attention seeking cutting or pain-pleasure cutting are still self-inflicted and self-created. You have nobody to blame but yourself for being a dumbass and putting daddy's razor on your wrists.

Yes, of course it is self-inflicted. As is drinking and starving yourself. It is something only you can do to yourself. Ok, maybe anorexia does not fit as a comparison, if it has somekind of neurological backround.
With alcoholism I just don´t see the difference.
You do something that feels good, and then you just can´t stop, even if you know it is destroying you.

Why is the alcoholic not a dumbass for putting the bottle to his lips, again and again?
Of course, there is a physical addiction, but certainly not from the beginning.

And, on another note:
Of course you have noone but yourself to blame!
Have you ever heard someone blame others for their own cutting?
Ok, that would be rather stupid.
I have never heard anyone say anything like that, or heard anyone try to pander off their responsibility for their lives and bodys to others. Not even the teenagers I have known.

 

[Tomany2]

You Have To Admit Though, They Do Look Pretty Hot...

 

[Spacewolf]

In any case--attention seeking cutting or pain-pleasure cutting are still self-inflicted and self-created. You have nobody to blame but yourself for being a dumbass and putting daddy's razor on your wrists.

actually it is possible to get addicted to the endorphins relesed which numb pain and also when healing. but with teen emos at least its probably to get attention as they say down the road not across the street

 

[Therumancer]

Hello fellow escapists!
A thought just struck me, why do most of us hate emos? They may be down and depressed. But why do we hate those who choose to wear black and dispise the conformus. They are probably the most hated social group, but are they so much worse than us others? I personally don't find them that irritating there are plenty of other people who are way worse...

Because Emos in general are just out to get attention.

I think it's a negative label applied to those who want to pretend they experience more angst than the norm to get sympathy and "cool factor" given how the media has presented it, but really just wind up being annoying.

Certain people tried to turn it into a "movement" in response, but I'm one of those people who question whether it actually exists in that context. It's mostly a bunch of rejects being rejected.

I do not see much of a connection between "Goth" and "Emo" other than some similarities in dress and so on, oftentimes coming from Emos trying to be Goths but being rejected by the rest of the clique in whatever area they are in.

That said, my experience has also been that a good portion of Goths are those who have "dark" interests in horror movies, some aspects of occult theory, and other myriad things, but don't take it too seriously and are actually having a lot of fun with the whole schtick. One of the reasons why a lot of them wind up being somewhat accepted since most people realize how it can be fun, even if they don't take it there themselves. A lot of the Emos on the other hand try and present this kind of thing with 100% seriousness and convey a kind of belief that is just absolutly nerdy.

As one person I knew put it, A Goth is someone who likes Vampire Movies, dresses in a fashion inspired by the stereotypes, and adopts some of the mannerisms. An Emo is a guy who is going to seriously tell other people he thinks he's a Vampire, and login to websites where other, equally strange people and have long discussions on the subject. A Goth is someone who might read stuff written by guys like Aleister Crowly, or The Necronomicon, wear symbols, discuss the theories with others, and occasionally play the role for the mundanes. An Emo is someone who will take it to the point of actually trying to act like it's a real secret, and actually try and organize casting some of the spells, expecting them to work.

Of course I don't think that really summarizes it properly, but that's some food for thought.

 

[Jaranja]

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.

That... doesn't make sense.
The emo isn't a knock-off goth.
An emo is a person who dresses in dark clothes and listens to emo rock.

And that is the real emo, seeing as that definition came first.

That's true.

The cut up your arm emo is an attention seeker.