Labels Are For Clothes And Hand Luggage. Not People.
Recently at school I've been asked 'What am I?' several times. My reply is 'Me'. I think these catagories and labels for people are pointless and cause fights between perfectly decent people.
The most commonly used labels are Emo and Chav. The chav bit is straight forward, but when it comes to emo's it gets complicated.
If you wear skinny jeans and like rock music you're labeled an emo and people taunt you for slitting your wrists. Even if you're scar free. When you say emo people imediately think of slitting wrists and depression. This is all totally wrong.
http://www.geekstinkbreath.net/blogs/read/4837/
A kickass blog which explained the difference between emo and emo. I wish more people understood that difference.
Then the labels get ridiculous. Greb? Grebo? What the hell do these mean?
Apparently, a greb is a new name for a skater kid. And a grebo is a skater/emo mix. Which idiot thinks up these useless labels? What's their point? WHY?
Apart from being called an emo by my friends and the other kids I get called other weird things too. Like this one boy asked me if I was a goth because I had a badge which said 'You can never wear too much black.' This same boy asked me if I was 'One of those punks'. If I wasn't in the middle of tech class I'd have kicked this guy.
But seriously. Why do people need labels? Why do people hate other people just coz their labeled emo? (Or chav for that matter)
In the words of Green Day...
I take a look around
And all the things I've found
I call it blind hatred
If you'd stop a while
And maybe if you'd smile
You would realize that
We're all the same
It's just like our brain
When it goes insane
We feel the same pain
The most commonly used labels are Emo and Chav. The chav bit is straight forward, but when it comes to emo's it gets complicated.
If you wear skinny jeans and like rock music you're labeled an emo and people taunt you for slitting your wrists. Even if you're scar free. When you say emo people imediately think of slitting wrists and depression. This is all totally wrong.
http://www.geekstinkbreath.net/blogs/read/4837/
A kickass blog which explained the difference between emo and emo. I wish more people understood that difference.
Then the labels get ridiculous. Greb? Grebo? What the hell do these mean?
Apparently, a greb is a new name for a skater kid. And a grebo is a skater/emo mix. Which idiot thinks up these useless labels? What's their point? WHY?
Apart from being called an emo by my friends and the other kids I get called other weird things too. Like this one boy asked me if I was a goth because I had a badge which said 'You can never wear too much black.' This same boy asked me if I was 'One of those punks'. If I wasn't in the middle of tech class I'd have kicked this guy.
But seriously. Why do people need labels? Why do people hate other people just coz their labeled emo? (Or chav for that matter)
In the words of Green Day...
I take a look around
And all the things I've found
I call it blind hatred
If you'd stop a while
And maybe if you'd smile
You would realize that
We're all the same
It's just like our brain
When it goes insane
We feel the same pain
awesome blog! :]
Kr!sta's Inferno, January 21st, 2009 at 06:16:04pm
I really liked this blog and that emo/emo blog D:
captain america, January 19th, 2009 at 10:06:17pm
good blog.
people just need stereotypes to get by, because so many people just want to 'fit in'.
Emo is the one that pisses me off the most.
Self harm is a SERIOUS major issue that should NOT be made fun of. people have no idea and aren't properly educated about depression and suicide and that kind of thing, so they have NO idea. I've had people tell me that, while I had scabs hidden in my sweater on the underside of my wrist. and them just saying that hurt me so bad because they had no idea what I was going through, and would never begin to even wonder what would cause me to do that to myself - thankfully I don't do it anymore. but still. it bothers me.
I agree, lables are annoying, but I've learned to deal with them and accept that people won't stop using them, no matter how hard I try to make them go away in my head.
Bubble Wrap., January 19th, 2009 at 06:32:55pm
*applaudes your awesome blogginess*
HUZZAH!!!
FINALLY, someone GETS IT!!!
PCG, January 19th, 2009 at 04:55:48pm
I get called emo because I like MCR and GD and FOB and Blink 182. WTF.
I got called punk for having a safety pin in my pants, because there was a bloody hole in them.
i've been called a goth, witch..all sorts of crap.
tbqh i couldn't give.
icegirl., January 19th, 2009 at 03:10:47pm
A typical sterotyped chav is someone who wears burberry, hoodies, smokes, drinks, beats people up, and generally weird people.
Great blog btw,
I get the same thing and honestly, im like the furthest thing from emo
Fall-Out-Girl, January 19th, 2009 at 02:30:24pm
What is a Chav?
I get called one, but I don't know what it is...
Dr.Hymen, January 19th, 2009 at 02:11:45pm