I do wear clothes that are - most of it, at least - black, and even dyed my hair black some time earlier this year (though which I'm already growing out).
But the thing is, I don't listen to emo rock, I'm actually a really, really cheery and optimistic person, I prefer other fashions on people than emo and goth (kind of hypocritical, but then again, I only wear black clothes and have black hair, I don't really look that emo'ish even) and don't really like them, I don't cut myself (if I'm cheery and optimistic, why should I?) and I really don't hang out with any emo people at all.
So I guess what I'm going towards, is that the only thing vaguely emo about me is the colour of my clothes. Wait, scratch that. Most of my clothes are generally more, like, just dark, not even black.
Yet, some people (though they're few) call me "emo", most of them as an insult. I remember when I didn't have black hair, and every time a battle of insults initiated, people usually really didn't have anything to say about me (except for the usual "You're a ). Nowadays (though, again, doesn't happen that often), some people call me "emo" as an insult as a last straw. One girl I met in the summer called me that every time we met, even though throughout summer, the only thing black on me was, on occasion, my t-shirt (wore white and colourful t-shirts more often), and, again, my hair.
I think it's pretty petty, and really shows how some people think of the phrase "emo" more as just someone who, I don't know, fucking, has black hair (I've always been partial to dark clothes), instead of what it was meant to mean.
But eh, I know what the term means, and whatever they mean by it, I don't really take any of that into heart. I know myself better than they, especially as they are making absurd and baseless accusations based purely on the colour of my hair.
