Violent anti-emo protests in Mexico, Hare Krishnas try to broker a peace agreement

Probably the most bizarre story i've heard in months. And this is coming on the heels of that pregnant ladydude.

And this kid


Is a school shootout waiting to happen.

How do you say "I'll give you something to cry about!" in Spanish?

Attempted school shooting and failure in depth perception waiting to happen is more like it.

I'll give you something to cry about, senor!

I really hope he doesn't turn around. Because he'll just rip the head off of that girly-boy in the pink and black shirt behind him.

Protest? Or an outdoor Latino screening of The Nightmare Before Christmas. You be the judge.

Why they gotta hurt emo kids? Given a long enough timeline, emo kids will hurt themselves.


Seriously, though, can we put this emo thing to rest? It's about as valid a label as "hipster". Which is to say: not very.

Something tells me "Glorieta de Insurgents" will be a song title on the next Fall Out Boy album.

Fabulous American sub-culture moves south of the border. All I can say is, to Mexico - you're welcome!

Keep up the good work anti-emo protestors! I salute you

Getting worked up about emos is about as significant as...wait, I'm SURE there's a good reason...as worthwhile as...erm...help me out here guys...

What's the difference between emos and goths again?

Choice of cologne?

I'm not really sure. Can someone that knows more about labels clear up this discussion?

Thanks

I know emos are a tad more colorful.

Better music and more trench coats.

I hope you're talking about the goths there.

Goth chicks wear corsets. Emo girls will fuck you without leaving bruises, however.

Goths tend to affect existentialism and nihilism. The attitude is generally more introspective and disaffected. Seems to me that goths, punks, etc. are subcultural leftovers from the 80s, though.

Emo kids tend to be a tad more heart-on-the-sleeve, thus the name. The modern* emo kid has borrowed some of the more outré fashion tics from the goth subculture and the melancholy (here, flitered through a manic depressive lens that also allows for displays of overt happiness), but that's really about it.

Also, the music attached to each subculture is very different, which may not seem like a big deal, but when you're a teenager, everything's a big deal. Every 20th century teen subculture has had its soundtrack going back through punk, mod, beatnik, teddy boys, etc.

This is, perhaps, over-codifying things, but I figure if kids take subcultural differences seriously enough to stir up violence (or if adults take them seriously enough to convict on the basis of them), they merit some attention even from those of us who have long since outgrown this sort of thing.

* The emo kid in 1998 looked a lot more like what gets called a "hipster" today, and also probably wasn't so much a kid as a 20-something, who most definitely wouldn't have identified as "emo," just as the so-called emo bands of the time and earlier wouldn't have.

There were hair spikes and hoodies everywhere. It was horrible.

It's like the southpark episode about the Bums. Once they start popping up, they don't stop. Beware!

Otherwise, you could be come one of them! So you decided to put some some product hair in your hair. Then you decide to get tighter clothes and it escalates and takes over and you can't be saved.

Of course.

Better comparison, partially stolen from George Carlin: Emo is a weepy 5'0 girl with a bic razor whining, "Please fuck me." Goth is a pale 6'3 dude with a switchblade saying "Fuck everyone."

I'd say the latter fits into the Industrial/rivet-head deal but I'm not going to split hairs here.

Is the world finally running out of things to hate?

No way, never underestimate the human capacity to find something to hate. Otherwise bullying would've ceased to exist thrity years ago.

Don't conform to The Man's thinking!



Just conform.

The kid on the left looks like he just had his kitten taken away.

So like juggalos, but in Mexico?

Burritos?

Actually, more like Mexican Lucha Libre, but in... Mexico.

Whatever you call 'em, my initial "someone should smack some sense into these little morons" reaction to this is making me feel incredibly old.

If that's the breakdown, make mine emo.

And I had to appropriate my tagline from this part of the Daily Swarm's coverage of this story. This shit's been giving me fits of laughter all week. And it's been a bad week.

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlin...e-not-violent/

Los Darkys?

And with that, my new user text is born.

At least Lucha Libre masks are an iconic symbol of Mexican culture, I don't think clown paint quite translates the same way to America..

That said, gangs of hundreds of people beating up a few scrawny emo kids?

They're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, they're going down swinging

Did they translate this using Babel Fish?

Wasn't this picture hanging in Eli Cash's apartment?

I remain unconvinced that they're not just making this whole thing up.

My first thought was that this had to be an Onion article.

So, really, these kids aren't like emo kids much at all. That ponceo thing is pretty nuts. I like how the reporter put it into a political context, since it does seem like a statement of sorts, even if it's one the participants seem unwilling to recognize.