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[emmelinemay]

Now the Daily Mail can no longer blame Goths for everything, they've switched targets.

The headline: Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo

Some choice quotes:

'emo' - part of a sinister teenage craze that romanticises death.

Some describe it as a cult or a sect[...]its followers dress in black, favouring tight jeans, T-shirts, studded belts and sneakers or skater shoes.

emo followers all over the world, talking about death and of the "black parade" — a place where emos believe they go after they die.

full article here

There always has to be a scapegoat, doesn't there?

I wonder which music genre is responsible for the teen knife killings.

Comments

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it wasn't the whole album?

It is quite hard to tell.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

There has to be a *reason*. It can't just be that being a teenager is FUCKING HARD. Especially a really intelligent and somewhat quirky teenager.

[smogo.livejournal.com]

Also from the fucking Daily Mail (as part of a completely unrelated article about teen crime):

alarming new research, uncovered by Tory MP David Ruffley, showed a failure to crack down on the sales of violent video games to children.
Despite an explosion in games with content suitable for over-18s only not a single person received a caution for supplying violent video games and DVDs to someone underage. Only eight fines were imposed.

Or couldn't it just be that shops aren't selling 18-rated games to under-18s? That seems fairly likely to me.

Stupid Daily Mail.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

From anecdotal evidence from friends who work in computer game shops - it is in fact parents who buy the games for children.

Neither Computer game shops nor the manufacturers should be held responsible for the fact that parents buy 18 certificate games for their children.

[smogo.livejournal.com]

Not that playing games has any relation to youth crime statistics anyway!

If anything, da kidz would be better off sitting indoors playing video games than hanging out on the streets playing with knives.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

I think they'd be better off in proper playgrounds with properly fun and genuinely dangerous play equipment.

It's all part of my BRING BACK WITCHES HATS TO PREVENT TEEN KNIFE CRIME campaign.

I cycle past a basketball court which has big warnings all over it that it's only for the use of the under 16s. I wonder what the 17 and 18 year olds are meant to do with their time.

[smogo.livejournal.com]

In my day we took loads of acid and sat round someone's house listening to scary music. Or alternatively sat around the park drinking White Lightning and trying to get off with girls.

All good, harmless fun, and no one got hurt.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

See, they're not allowed to sit around in the park anymore.