Mexico ''Riots''

[Jellyfish]

[I posted this on 3 forums in order to get more opinions ]

There's some riots going on in Mexico, and you'll never guess what its about:
Emo's.

(For those who don't know ''Emo's'' are known for they're hair being ''different'' i.e fringe over one eye. And also for being very depressive, and mostly self-harming. This is however not true in most cases. They're noticed mainly byt the clothes they wear, stripes, and ''Skinny Jeans'' mark you out as ''emo'' here in the UK. I'm not sure if its the same everywhere else.)

Loads of groups of people have been attacking the ''emo'' kids just because they are ''emo's''. They even banned them from some parts of Mexico.

The police took the ''emo's'' side. And ''emo'' protesters walked down the streets in protest.

If you watch the YouTube video in the link below you can see that its actually quite a violent argument going on.

Some of my friends are ''emo'' and whilst sometimes, yeh the depressed thing can get annoying, they are nice people.

So all this over clothes more or less. It really annoys me, my mate Nik got bullied all through school just because he was ''Goth''. There's also another link, which is upsetting below, and that happened in the UK. So what do you think?
Click here for Mexican Riots
Click here for the UK murder story

 

[KeithVH]

Well, since it was asked what I thought . . .

I'm trying to imagine a world 20-30 years from now when emo's, punks, goths, and every other mentally deficient flavor of the day will be middle-aged adults. Will they be in charge or just a drain on society? Either thought is scary. Guess I'm just too old - when I compare these kids to what I think are normal, well-adjusted individuals (regardless of age), I know I don't even want to bother with them. They have their issues - fine. Why do I have to share in the pain? That's their problem, not mine. Just don't expect me to think it really matters in the long run.

Hopefully Darwin will be proved right.

 

[dandaman]

Emos attacked by punks and metalheads?

Never thought I'd hear that in a lifetime.

Interesting, however, that it mentions emo to be a parallel to homosexuality in some mindsets. That one just seems odd.

 

[miles1]

Well, since it was asked what I thought . . .

I'm trying to imagine a world 20-30 years from now when emo's, punks, goths, and every other mentally deficient flavor of the day will be middle-aged adults. Will they be in charge or just a drain on society? Either thought is scary. Guess I'm just too old - when I compare these kids to what I think are normal, well-adjusted individuals (regardless of age), I know I don't even want to bother with them. They have their issues - fine. Why do I have to share in the pain? That's their problem, not mine. Just don't expect me to think it really matters in the long run.

Hopefully Darwin will be proved right.

My parent's generation said the same thing about the hippies and anti-Vietanm-war protestors, most of whom are now captains of industry, attorneys, and possibly your parents.:lol:

 

[dandaman]

^While I agree with Keith (and even though I'm supposedly in that rebellious demographic know as "teenager"), you make a good point. :lol:

 

[Number_6]

My parent's generation said the same thing about the hippies and anti-Vietanm-war protestors, most of whom are now captains of industry, attorneys, and possibly your parents.:lol:

I was thinking the exact same thing. Every generation has a group that people of the older generation think is going to be the downfall of our society. And every generation still continues on. Some of the rebellious youths of yesterday have moved on to great success today. Richard Branson is a good example of that. He dropped out of school back in the 60s and opened a music store. Now he's a multi-billionaire in charge of Virgin. So never assume that just because someone views the world a little different, that it means they view it wrong.

 

[Number_6]

Interesting, however, that it mentions emo to be a parallel to homosexuality in some mindsets. That one just seems odd.

That's because there is a percentage of the Emo population that leans toward being bisexual, so to some people that just equates to being purely homosexual. Of course, there's a percentage of every population that leans toward it, so it really just seems like people trying to grasp at one more thing they don't like about Emos.

 

[Jellyfish]

Yeh i have to admit most of my friends who are emo (and thats quite a few admittently) are bi-sexual or homosexual. Actually i think all of them are. :-S

 

[wedway71]

Wasnt EMO a Comedian in the 80s with a Bowl Cut?

 

[dandaman]

?

 

[unkadug]

Wasnt EMO a Comedian in the 80s with a Bowl Cut?

Why yes he was...

 

[dandaman]

Hmm... well, I got it right, but my picture within the above post sems to have disappeared. :lol:

 

[mkt]

Well, since it was asked what I thought . . .

I'm trying to imagine a world 20-30 years from now when emo's, punks, goths, and every other mentally deficient flavor of the day will be middle-aged adults. Will they be in charge or just a drain on society? Either thought is scary. Guess I'm just too old - when I compare these kids to what I think are normal, well-adjusted individuals (regardless of age), I know I don't even want to bother with them. They have their issues - fine. Why do I have to share in the pain? That's their problem, not mine. Just don't expect me to think it really matters in the long run.

Hopefully Darwin will be proved right.

Keith, my middle-namesake... the emos are a fairly new breed

There are plenty of punks and goths in charge nowadays

EG, my brother-in-law, Peter. California Surfer punk throughout the 80's and early 90's. Now has a Cornell MBA and runs a multibillion dollar asset management firm headquartered in Miami, with offices in Buenos Aires, Bogota, São Paulo, Cayman Islands, New York, and Montreal.

I can imagine your counterpart 20 years ago saying the exact same thing.

 

[unkadug]

Hmm... well, I got it right, but my picture within the above post sems to have disappeared. :lol:

[quote="dandaman, post: 2815501"][img]http://www.hardgeus.com/updateimages/emo_philips_old.jpg[/img] ?[/QUOTE]

The coding is still there, maybe the site doesn't allow hotlinking?

 

[KeithVH]

Keith, my middle-namesake... the emos are a fairly new breed

There are plenty of punks and goths in charge nowadays

EG, my brother-in-law, Peter. California Surfer punk throughout the 80's and early 90's. Now has a Cornell MBA and runs a multibillion dollar asset management firm headquartered in Miami, with offices in Buenos Aires, Bogota, São Paulo, Cayman Islands, New York, and Montreal.

I can imagine your counterpart 20 years ago saying the exact same thing.

I could also make a case that the ne'er-do-wells of 20-30 years ago now in charge have also botched things up royally. Let's think about the credit and housing loan crisis, energy crisis, remote possibility of climate issues and general instability in the world can, at least in part, be traced back to the attitudes of some of these people.

You can darn well rest assured it wasn't Brokaw's Greatest Generation who is responsible for it.

 

[mkt]

Thankfully the emo kids can learn from their mistakes... however, the mistakes can hardly be attributed solely on only the punk rock kids of 20-30 years ago, as I'm quite certain that quite a few upstanding young adults of the era have not yet received their fare share of the blame.

 

[The Mom]

My parent's generation said the same thing about the hippies and anti-Vietanm-war protestors, most of whom are now captains of industry, attorneys, and possibly your parents.:lol:

:lookaroun hmmm

 

[miles1]

:lookaroun hmmm

And even website moderators....

 

[mkt]

And even website moderators....

or in the case of my immediate family, captains of industry, politicians, doctors, attorneys, and professors.

 

[JustPlainBill]

[I posted this on 3 forums in order to get more opinions ]
(For those who don't know ''Emo's'' are known for they're hair being ''different'' i.e fringe over one eye. And also for being very depressive, and mostly self-harming. This is however not true in most cases. They're noticed mainly byt the clothes they wear, stripes, and ''Skinny Jeans'' mark you out as ''emo'' here in the UK. I'm not sure if its the same everywhere else.)

OMG!
So this is what is going on with my nephew. I didn't know it was a generation thing.:shrug: His attitude and appearence has been baffeling me for over a year now. After seeing this post yesterday I researched it and what I found describes him to a T. Boy, do I feel old now!
The power of enlightenment!