If you surf MySpace enough, you've probably come across kids who describe themselves as being "emo." If you don't know what this is, either you've been living under a rock or you need to browse Wikipedia a little more.

"Emo kids" are those kids who listen to indie/rock/screamo music (which mostly consists of emotional-type lyrics), dress in tight clothes, straight-iron their hair (yes, the boys too!), and wear heavy makeup (yes, the boys too!). They often have "the angles" (C'mon, seriously? You didn't see the famous YouTube video about Yeta/Yeti?) and are so-called MySpace "whores." I really shouldn't have to school you on this, but a MySpace "whore" is someone who adds a ton of people they don't know just to gain popularity on the site. They basically find a few popular people manually by searching through friends of friends and keep adding until they are able to create a "chain bulletin post" asking others to re-post the bulletins with "add me" links and pictures in them. They would rather sit and talk out an argument rather than take part in a fist fight. Although they might seem angry, they’re called “emo” for a reason.

Some of the emo scene from Mexico:


Anyhoo, back to the Mexican emo kids. Time Magazine reported on Thursday that a large group of "anti-emos" organized a plan over the Internet to meet in Mexico’s central city of Queretaro to attack any emo’s that were bound to be there. Hundreds of youths punched and kicked the small number of emo’s, some filmed on their cell phones, all while shouting “kill the emos!” When police finally arrived to arrest the assailants, they found the victims bloody and sobbing on the concrete waiting for ambulances, listening to the assailants who got away laughing and cheering as they sprawled out into local streets.



Some believe these are traditional Mexicans fighting for their traditional conservative beliefs. These anti-emos believe that emos are homosexual or just girls obsessed with bands. Why can’t kids just grow up and learn that we don’t live in a traditional world anymore? I know that Mexicans are usually highly traditional, but if they are on MySpace enough to notice these emo kids, why can’t they realize that there is a variety of cliques now?

Furthermore, what’s with all the physical violence? Between this, Billy Wolfe, and a 71-year-old man in San Francisco getting beaten early this morning, it makes me question what this world is resorting to nowadays. What are parents teaching their children or, better yet, not teaching their children? As I’ve grown up (to the wise old age of 17), I’ve seen the generations after me getting more violent and less concerned with being their own person. This is a real issue, and no one is addressing it. What’s the world going to be like when we have a ton of Eminems, Britney Spears, emos, and Paris Hiltons trying to make the world turn? OMG … the mere thought.  It's a world where it's possible for an Eminem-Spears presidential ticket.