i usually hear my friends saying the word emo but i dont know what that mean???
2007-01-21 20:15:08 · 10 answers · asked by cutie_boy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
My teenagers say this word too and even call certain people emo. When I asked what this means they tell me it is someone who dresses kind of weird and likes to cut themselves.
It sounds pretty disgusting if you ask me.
2007-01-21 20:19:27 · answer #1 · answered by Dakota Lynn Takes Gun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take the softer side of punk and the softer side of goth, put them together, and you have emo, or expression of emotion in a passive-aggressive sense. Passive, in the sense that it typically encompasses themes like pity, sorrow, rejection, hopelessness, etc., aggressive in the sense that subjects are bemoaned in loud, shrill, sometimes angry tones.
Someone who calls himself or herself emo is often someone who really needs a hug but is either to cool to accept it or too caught up in the momentum of feeling dejected to let it make them feel better. I don't mean this as an insult, or a stereotype, as accepting any generic lable imposes self-stereotyping, which we all do anyway, but merely as my perspective on it and a comparison to how in our own ways, we all get hung up on our issues at one time or another, some people just run with it.
At least being depressed is fashionable and profitable now, so you don't have to feel so bad about feeling bad. Hopefully there will eventually be a way that everyone, nomatter how downtrodden and ostracized, can feel like they belong.
2007-01-28 16:45:14 · answer #2 · answered by Mardok 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EMO is a slang term for "emotional". It is used to describe anything that causes an emotional response, positive or negative.
2007-01-29 07:10:30 · answer #3 · answered by ginabgood1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
emo refers to the 80's comedian emo philips, and refering to people in emos likeness.
http://www.emophilips.com/pictures/
2007-01-22 04:26:09 · answer #4 · answered by SARcasm,RN 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EMOtionally Disturbed Gothics
Love & Blessings
Milly
2007-01-22 05:53:25 · answer #5 · answered by milly_1963 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
emo- teens that get emotional over stuff easily and they 'cut'
2007-01-22 04:24:23 · answer #6 · answered by princessslons 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kids who listen to crap music and cry about everything, usually relationships. And, no, it's not a good thing.
2007-01-22 04:24:25 · answer #7 · answered by almighty_malachi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emotional as in emotional rock or something - AKA people who think they are cool.
2007-01-22 04:19:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
emmotional it's used by my friends too,it is usually used by rockers
2007-01-29 03:39:05 · answer #9 · answered by mart ian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EMOtionally disturbed, maybe...
2007-01-22 04:19:50 · answer #10 · answered by GuyDudeBro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋