Would someone please, please tell me what this means? I am so confused.
Apparently it is a new word going around my son’s middle school. “If you do this, you’re EMO.” or “If you do that, you’re EMO.” I don’t get it.
Because I consider myself pretty well-versed on most of the “slang” kid language, I was surprised not to have heard it used apparently the way they use it.
When I look EMO up on the Internet, I get a page that tells me it has to do with emotionally-charged punk rock. Uhm okay. Then I also got one that said something about the word just being a shortcut for emotional.
When I go to “Emo” at Wikipedia, I get a slang definition, that says it began as the punk rock word in the 80’s. Ok, apparently I did not listen to punk rock then, because I do not remember that word. And for our wonderful modern age it says that it refers to a person’s fashion, personality, or both. Uhm ok. Again, still not sure I understand.
Ah wait, I get it now. I really do. Under the personality section @ Wikipedia, it describes a bit better where it came from. Several times over the course of the past couple of weeks, someone has referred to my son as EMO. He had NO idea what they meant, but apparently I do now.
Recently, my son had a fight with the cat. Or rather, the cat did not want to be held at that particular moment and scratched the heck out of his arm trying to get away. He had some pretty big cuts.
Apparently, some definitions of emo hold that typical “emo persons” are likely to inflict self-injury, most often by means of cutting, burning, or otherwise mutilating themselves. Uh, yeah that’s just great. And then it goes on to say that some assert that it is “cool” within the emo subculture to pretend to be suicidal and self-harm, or that participants self-harm purely for personal enjoyment. Terrific. My son has now been introduced to something I really wish I could have kept him from learning at twelve. And we wonder why I hate the schools and homeschool him. LOL
Ok, so now I get it. I am not EMO. And neither is any family member I have, so I guess we’re all safe. *whew* that was close!
Oh!! And if you want to see for yourself … here ya go.
April 21st, 2007 at 7:17 am
You know, I can’t even begin to keep up. Sometimes when my 17 niece talks to me I just stare in amazement that she can remember every slang word (or abbreviations in some cases), every “cool” phrase to say, and every stupid word that age comes up with but yet she can manage to barely pass English every quarter. If she spent half as much time on her REAL English then her made up English we’d all be good, lol.
I have never heard of an EMO, and this is where I should rant on about the evils of school, and how I wish there was more “something” in this world that brought back respect to a kids vocabulary. I know, no matter what the age, kids always make fun of other kids, but it is getting to be much more cruel then I ever could have imagined.
Hmmm… I’m not making much sense, lol… you’re the first blog I read this morning, I guess I should have picked something that made me type a one word comment or something because my brain doesn’t seem to want to work, lol.
April 21st, 2007 at 7:28 am
Nope Erin, you made perfect sense. I think I agree with you more than you know.
Our schools are awful, and they cannot control all the “evils” as you called them that are out there. It’s really pretty sad. In fact, it sucks when you are worried everyday to send your kids out and wonder either if they will get hurt, be made fun of, or worse yet, killed by some crazy gun man. My two children are in middle school and directly across the street (sharing a parking lot) is the high school. For whatever reason, that makes me nervous.
I am so tired of my son coming home and asking what something means.
He shouldn’t be exposed to half of what he’s asked about, I’m just glad he does come to me, and the majority of the time, he is just as disgusted as I am.
Guess i am lucky in many ways.