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Emo kids attacked in the streets of Mexico
Prefixmag.com ^ | 26 Mar 2008 | Jeff Skruck

Posted on 03/27/2008 8:14:52 AM PDT by BGHater

Hey, you, emo kid in Kansas rocking out to Hawthorne Heights as you thumb through the current issue of Alternative Press and draw a cracked heart on the rubber toe of your Jack Purcell.  You think you got reason to be doleful? Well, then check out your ilk in Mexico. They've been getting their asses kicked lately as part of a country-wide anti-emo movement and now they're fighting back (this clip is in Spanish, but images speak louder than words. Check out the dudes arming themselves with leather belts. What is this, West Side Story?).  

LA Weekly's Daniel Hernandez has been covering the phenomenon for the paper and on his blog Intersections. "A bizarre wave of emo-bashings is sweeping across Mexico. The movement is being generated on message boards and social networking sites by non-emo youth who highly dislike the emo look and attitude.  Hernandez reports that it started on March 7th in Queretaro where about 800 young people hunted down emos in the city's Centro Historico for some head bashing. "The next weekend it spread to Mexico City, where emos faced off against punks and rockabillies at the Glorieta de Insurgents, the epicenter of emo social space in the capital." 

So what brought all this about? Good old fashioned machismo? Harry24 gives a lengthy discourse here on the "Anti Emo Death Squad" page at last.fm, and even theorizes that the growing emo scene is part of a government conspiracy to cultivate emo kids because they can be easily manipulated (unlike metalheads).  

But Harry24 best sums up his emo hatred here (broken English and grammar left intact): "An interesting fact of this, is that the Heavy Metal community is not the only one against emos, we can also find that, pop-listeners, skaters, punks, goths, and other people are against emos here in Mexico. But why metal/rock listeners are not the only ones against emos??? The answer is simple, emo attitude here in Mexico is anti-youngster: they do not drink, they do not have sex, they do not have fun, they go to concerts just to cry, they go to parties just to sit in a corner and cry, and they feel victims of everything, it is really, a very stupid behavior."  

Wow, and you thought the rednecks in your town were bad. [Daily Swarm]


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Mexico
KEYWORDS: emo; emotional; kids; mexico
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To: najida

ROFL!!!!!!!!


61 posted on 03/27/2008 9:21:27 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: billorites

One of my favorites too.


62 posted on 03/27/2008 9:30:31 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
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To: BGHater

I wish that my lawn was Emo... then it would cut itself.


63 posted on 03/27/2008 9:34:10 AM PDT by NativeSon (off the Rez without a pass...)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
The Cure and The Essence were first generation emo music... Some it pretty cool stuff... I put up this very rare song from the 80's on the tube.. The Essence - Ice
64 posted on 03/27/2008 9:43:36 AM PDT by LowOiL ("I don't need Mr. Keyes lecturing me on Christianity. That's why I have a pastor." — Barack Obama)
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To: 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Big Guy and Rusty 99; Brian Allen; cgk; ...

Rock and Roll PING!

Mods vs. rockers brought into the 21st century.


65 posted on 03/27/2008 9:47:37 AM PDT by weegee (Famous moments in history: March 18th, 2008 “I have a bridge (to sell you)...” - Barack H. Obama)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Wow. Emo music. I knew nothing about it; one of the joys of being 40, I guess.

See post 64... Emo music was around in yours and my day.. and it was pretty cool stuff even then...

66 posted on 03/27/2008 9:47:42 AM PDT by LowOiL ("I don't need Mr. Keyes lecturing me on Christianity. That's why I have a pastor." — Barack Obama)
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To: BGHater
The answer is simple, emo attitude here in Mexico is anti-youngster: they do not drink, they do not have sex, they do not have fun, they go to concerts just to cry

Sounds more like "straight edge" punk.

67 posted on 03/27/2008 9:48:38 AM PDT by weegee (Famous moments in history: March 18th, 2008 “I have a bridge (to sell you)...” - Barack H. Obama)
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To: SolidWood
Basically kids suckered by another music & fashion style.

As opposed to the other fashion cliques who are ganging up on them.

68 posted on 03/27/2008 9:50:16 AM PDT by weegee (Famous moments in history: March 18th, 2008 “I have a bridge (to sell you)...” - Barack H. Obama)
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To: mad puppy
Couldn’t tell the boys from the girls, all paper thin eating nothing

Blame it on the damned BMI index that dictates a guy and a gal should weigh the same.

69 posted on 03/27/2008 9:51:33 AM PDT by weegee (Famous moments in history: March 18th, 2008 “I have a bridge (to sell you)...” - Barack H. Obama)
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To: LowOiL

What was the Velvet Underground then? Or Joy Division? Or Patti Smith?


70 posted on 03/27/2008 9:52:54 AM PDT by weegee (Famous moments in history: March 18th, 2008 “I have a bridge (to sell you)...” - Barack H. Obama)
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To: billorites

I like to shop in downtown Downer's Grove.

71 posted on 03/27/2008 9:53:53 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: VR-21
What’s an “emo?”

Kids who follow a gene of goth music... that started basically during the 80's.

See post 64 for a example... though I never dressed or played the part.. I did love the music.

72 posted on 03/27/2008 10:00:15 AM PDT by LowOiL ("I don't need Mr. Keyes lecturing me on Christianity. That's why I have a pastor." — Barack Obama)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
this pussy crap evolved out of hardcore.

Don't believe that BS for a second.

Wikipedia is not infallible.

EMO came from Goth, PERIOD.

NOT AN EMO BAND

73 posted on 03/27/2008 10:01:29 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: BGHater

74 posted on 03/27/2008 10:08:27 AM PDT by StevieJ
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To: Zeppelin

“,,,a bunch of crybabies with self-inflicted “depression.”

And when they are old enough they will vote Democrat.


75 posted on 03/27/2008 10:09:43 AM PDT by LottieDah (Democrats and liberals never fail to disappoint.)
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To: Nervous Tick

I'm so creative and sad. No one was ever sad before me.

76 posted on 03/27/2008 10:10:26 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: RouxStir

My daughter was a cutter. She cut her self because she clsoed herself off emotionally after a taumatic incident in her life. Thank God she is finally cured of that. Unfortuantely she replaced cutting with tattooing.


77 posted on 03/27/2008 10:11:29 AM PDT by LottieDah (Democrats and liberals never fail to disappoint.)
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To: weegee
What was the Velvet Underground then? Or Joy Division? Or Patti Smith?

Joy Division definately was emo in it's time... I never listed to the other two.. can't say...

Did manage to go to a Cure concert in it's day and the dress and style were quite simular to today's emo dress. LOL, being a country hick, I was probable the only upbeat dressed person in that crowd... I stood out like a sore thumb... but they didn't bother me. I never understood the dress the part culture of emo's... but I did enjoy some of the music.

Other groups I remember off hand from the 80's that could be classified as emo today...

Clan of Xymox

Cocteau Twins

The Smiths (Meat is Murder)

Wolfsheim

78 posted on 03/27/2008 10:13:07 AM PDT by LowOiL ("I don't need Mr. Keyes lecturing me on Christianity. That's why I have a pastor." — Barack Obama)
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To: BGHater
my band got booked with a buncha emo bands at the end of april, so im having a special shirt made specifically to tick them off its gonna say "emo, gay music for gay people"

friggin fags

79 posted on 03/27/2008 11:17:47 AM PDT by MetalHeadConservative35 (GO Tigers!!!!)
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To: Zeppelin

Oh, you mean kids that need a good ass-whippin’. Why didn’t you just say so!


80 posted on 03/27/2008 11:20:43 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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