WTF?!

[rosiedoes]

In the London Borough of HarrinGAY! where I live, the population consists mostly of black, Turkish and Greek people. There are black, Turkish and Greek gangs, or so I'm told. There are also persistent campaigns to end knife violence.

The current campaign, which was was obviously put through the local schools, features posters or badly-drawn, manga-ish emokids, and suggests that these are the people carrying the knives.

WHAT. THE. FUCK?!

Emokids are going to be sitting in their bedrooms trying to work out the chords to MCR songs - which, granted, do occasionally refer to murder, knives, herses... and doing push-ups in drag - but I am yet to hear of a knife attack made by an emokid. To the best of my knowledge, emoculture (yeah, yeah, I know - I use the term loosely) is more about haircuts and how tight you can wear your jeans. It's not about "Respec'" or status or who your "homies" are.

It's about being pretentious and crying your eyeliner off in your bedroom.

I'm not saying all black people, or Turks, or Greeks walk around carrying knives with malintent - but let's just say there were no emokids in the brawl by the bus stop, the other night.

I hate being misrepresented.

Comments

[million-moments.livejournal.com]

Well, emo kids in Nottingham/Suffolk might be carring knives, but they'd be little pen knives which they just play with or cut themselves with. Cause that's what emo culture is up here.

[ms-mindfunk.livejournal.com]

I went to church on Sunday, which is not something I'd normally do. My #2 son's music teacher from school called a few weeks ago and asked if he'd like to come sing at her church. There's no choir during the summer, and various people do solos or whatever. Of course he was excited about the whole whole idea, so off to church we went. While off on a tangent about energizing the youth or some shit like that, he started to rant about "the grunge" and how not good it was when your child got mixed up in it. I politely refrained from rolling my eyes and giggling, because "the grunge"? WTF? Hello, 1992 called and they and their fad back. His example was of a kid who wanted to dye his hair black. Oh, the horrors! He failed to explain how black hair dye led to moral ruin and eternal damnation, so I'm still wondering how that whole process works.

[ms-mindfunk.livejournal.com]

While off on a tangent about energizing the youth or some shit like that, he started to rant...

Um, I meant to say 'the minister' or 'the pastor' instead of he, so insert your chosen phrase appropriately for that whole thing to make sense. *facepalm*

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. Yeah. Churchtypes make me laugh, sometimes.

It's either laugh or cry.

[mugglerock.livejournal.com]

Oh, if that weren't incredibly sad, it would be hilarious. Who am I kidding? I still think it's hilarious.

badly-drawn, manga-ish emokids

So, in theory, all one needs to do is avoid badly drawn manga, right?

<3<3

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Well, that fucks most of the interweb, doesn't it?