eye liner on boys?, like greenday Options

[GRRRtyler]

Everyone is starting to wear it.
do you wear it.
would you wear it?

[ParanoidAndroid]

^ again let me say..EXA-CE-TU-LLY! One of the points of being emo is to show the darker side. I mean that person who said emos try to comform themselves... who are you to talk when you don't even talk or understand them?

[*mipadi*]

^ again let me say..EXA-CE-TU-LLY! One of the points of being emo is to show the darker side. I mean that person who said emos try to comform themselves... who are you to talk when you don't even talk or understand them?

You are pretty presumptuous to think that I have no contact with the emo culture.

[ParanoidAndroid]

You are pretty presumptuous to think that I have no contact with the emo culture.

Of course I'd think that. ANYONE would assume that if you keep attacking emos and saying how they always try to comform from other people. As another emo I wear eye liner for a reason, I wear black attires for a reason, I am depressed for a reason and it's not to act different but because for once in my life I feel free from a cage I lived my whole life. I bet other guys that wear eye liner have a good reason to it and you don't have a right to doubt them.

[*mipadi*]

Of course I'd think that. ANYONE would assume that if you keep attacking emos and saying how they always try to comform from other people.

Well, let me inform you of your ignorance.

I have been around emo a lot--long before it was cool to "be emo". I've played in several emo bands, and have had a number of friends that have played in emo bands, long before emo was popular. I've been around it long enough to know that emo isn't lining your eyes in black and saying "Woe is me, woe is me, the world is such a bad place and my life sucks" and going to great lengths to draw attention to this fact, like the bastardization of emo is today. Go back in time ten, fifteen years ago--emo artists didn't wear black eyeliner and bitch and moan. That's not what emo is about, and yes, I think anyone who painstakingly tries to conform to that "standard" is just trying to fit in by not fitting in to mainstream culture.

Don't give me this shit that "I'm emo because I'm depressed" because a) emo isn't about being depressed and mopey all the time and b) it's a disservice to people who truly do suffer from depression.

[Paradox of Life]

b) it's a disservice to people who truly do suffer from depression.

Thank the Lord someone actually said that, but you see depression and having a dark personality has inspired dressing this way. Depression causes you to think in a more gloomy, under the weather way, causing you to possibly feel more comfortable dressing in black. Some people take it to a further extreme. Unfortunately, those idiots that wear black, tight women's jeans, eyeliner and pretend to be depressed and whatnot exist and will always exist. WELCOME TO POSERVILLE. Emo is no longer a culture. It is a TREND.

AHH. OFF TOPIC AGAIN. DAMN MY ADD.

Eyeliner looks cool to some people and looks stupid to other people. Lots of posers wear eyeliner to 'seem cooler' and 'more emo', but truthfully, I don't give a damn. It's their choice. If they want to go about looking like an idiot and people take notice, that's their problem.