Well, I have more to add on the label debate.
Since I had started the string of blogs on the topic of labels and stereotypes, I realised I had more to add.
I've also noticed that 'emo' has become a derogoratory term. Emo is purely negative in the circumstances I've seen it in, and it bugs the hell out of me. This is similar for the word 'gay'. Is it wrong to be homosexual? Absolutely not.
Judging by the comments made at school, I have come to this definition of emo:
Emo: (def) Emotional. Cuts self, hates life, wears red and blac, listens to Green Day/My Chemical Romance/AFI etc. etc.
May I add that I really don't agree with this definition - particularly the wearing red and black and the music listened to. I was called emo a few times because I listened to Green Day.
Now, when I went on dictionary.com, I typed in emo. It didn't have a definition, but had results for the acronym EMO.
EMO - Emotion (s)
- Emotional (music genre)
- Emotional rock (music, fashion)
Sure, it could mean emotional. But bands like Snow Patrol write songs such as Chasing Cars...its a sad, emotional song. But is it emo?
As I write this blog I'm also researching hippies for our vietnam War project. Is this just a stereotype? Are all hippies identical?
I wouldn't mind an answer.
In English we were asked to write an Elizabethan sonnet on something we felt strongly about. I chose to write about labels, stereotypes and rebelling against the common opinion in society.
I, Rebel
Who the hell are you to tell me who I
am? I, a rebel, a rebel to be,
Am not a saint, but yet I will not lie;
I don't care! I don't care what you think of me!
I strive to be different, and not the same,
I don't want to be like you in anyway.
For that in itself would earn me a name,
And that, for the last time, is not okay.
So now, I guess, I walk, I walk alone,
For you will never change the way you think.
Is it all my fault that I should have known?
All that, it seemed, was just the missing link.
So farewell, I hope you meet your own fate,
But where will we all go when its too late?
Yes, it sounds like I'm going on about the whole labelling thing again. I apologise. But, in my search for answers, I've realised something:
I can't control everything.
I've also noticed that 'emo' has become a derogoratory term. Emo is purely negative in the circumstances I've seen it in, and it bugs the hell out of me. This is similar for the word 'gay'. Is it wrong to be homosexual? Absolutely not.
Judging by the comments made at school, I have come to this definition of emo:
Emo: (def) Emotional. Cuts self, hates life, wears red and blac, listens to Green Day/My Chemical Romance/AFI etc. etc.
May I add that I really don't agree with this definition - particularly the wearing red and black and the music listened to. I was called emo a few times because I listened to Green Day.
Now, when I went on dictionary.com, I typed in emo. It didn't have a definition, but had results for the acronym EMO.
EMO - Emotion (s)
- Emotional (music genre)
- Emotional rock (music, fashion)
Sure, it could mean emotional. But bands like Snow Patrol write songs such as Chasing Cars...its a sad, emotional song. But is it emo?
As I write this blog I'm also researching hippies for our vietnam War project. Is this just a stereotype? Are all hippies identical?
I wouldn't mind an answer.
In English we were asked to write an Elizabethan sonnet on something we felt strongly about. I chose to write about labels, stereotypes and rebelling against the common opinion in society.
I, Rebel
Who the hell are you to tell me who I
am? I, a rebel, a rebel to be,
Am not a saint, but yet I will not lie;
I don't care! I don't care what you think of me!
I strive to be different, and not the same,
I don't want to be like you in anyway.
For that in itself would earn me a name,
And that, for the last time, is not okay.
So now, I guess, I walk, I walk alone,
For you will never change the way you think.
Is it all my fault that I should have known?
All that, it seemed, was just the missing link.
So farewell, I hope you meet your own fate,
But where will we all go when its too late?
Yes, it sounds like I'm going on about the whole labelling thing again. I apologise. But, in my search for answers, I've realised something:
I can't control everything.
You make sense...
sex...pistol, March 28th, 2007 at 05:46:23am
I like your sonnet.
..Some Green Day-ish kind of lines in there. Well, they sounded familiar.
vonny, March 28th, 2007 at 03:09:12am
i like this a lot. i myself have made a couple blogs about it, and today i stated my own mid to this girl about emo. And i felt proud, proud that i actually made effort for myself, and anyone else who felt the same wayt about people picking on this non-existant stereotype that most of us are being shoved falsley into!
I love your poem, i really do. Its understandable and smart. You are a wise one!
Vegemite, March 28th, 2007 at 02:56:50am
I don't think Green Day are emo - I was just saying that nearly every Green Day hater I have met thinks they're emo, and hates them partly because of that.
The Brightside., March 28th, 2007 at 02:36:13am
hey i know you! :O
Deadboy, March 28th, 2007 at 12:36:51am
Good research.
Authough...How did green day fit under emo? No offence, I dont really get that fact, But otherwise I love it.
Im the 'steriotypical emo', Sure i call myself emo, only because it's easier to accept the label than reject it.
personally; I have been told by my doctor that cutting is a medical problem. Not an 'Emo' thing.
Im mental O=)
Anywho'z Finishing off, I like your statements about it.
And true, we cant control labels, We should just accept them.
Tholomew Plague, March 28th, 2007 at 12:03:02am
I like this blog. You did research. And compared the text definitions and peoples' definition. What you wrote for your class is really frickin awesome.
RhymesLikeDimes, March 27th, 2007 at 09:43:43pm