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  So what, let teens be teens. Any youth subculture is hated by the generation before, since youth culture started in the 40's.. Like hippys, beatniks, greasers, mods etc. Its people dressing in a way that resonates with how they feel and the music they listen too. The point with youth subculture is you do something against the norm, and people give you shit for it. It's how it'd always been. I think your looking far to deeply into it and kinda just sounding like a boomer parent of that Era lol.
context: Emo culture has nothing to do with oppression? It's general sadness, and you can be sad about a lot of things that aren't oppression. >
  
  I think it is more of a teenage thing.  No one understands me type thing >
  
  I haven't heard of emo culture or seen anyone identify as emos since the 2000s. >
  
  It's picking back up, along with scene and grunge. >
  
  My apologies. I guess I kind of showed my age a bit since I must be out of the loop. I know that the hipster and retro subcultures have been making strong comebacks for quite a while so this makes sense. 
  In all fairness, all power to them. I could be wrong, but luckily people are a lot less judgmental and more accepting of alternative individuals than they were when I was in high school. >
  
  Yes and no! In Portland and Washington, I had no troubles with my goth/alt/weird fashion. In the bible Belt? People just assume I'm on drugs. >
  
  The alternative cultures were one of many reasons why I enjoyed visiting Cascadia. As someone who lives in Texas, this doesn't surprise me. I'm really sorry you had to go through that. Unfortunately, you would have been treated FAR worse ten to twenty years ago by a lot more people in the Deep South. When I was a kid, there were helicopter parents who were demonizing anime and Herry Potter fans for being satanic and it got to the point where my friend had to hide her Dragon Ball Z manga and Harry Potter books at school after her parent threatened to kick her out of the house after seeing her casting wizard spells with her brothers. >
  
  I know it wasn't great, I did it 10+ years ago too lol. Things imo have gotten worse, mainly because people have gotten a lot more bold and outspoken. A kind of southern expectation of politeness used to be the norm, but that seems to have faded ever since the anti gay protesters started hanging around in the early 20-teens. >
  
  That's a fair point. The most insufferable people have been getting louder and louder recently. The Southern Hospitality myth is really easy to debunk whenever you talk to a non-white, non-Protestant, LGBTQ, or nonconventional Southerner. I hope you are doing okay despite this. Be who you are and let those close-minded people be mad. >
  
  If you are going to make general statements about emo culture then you can also make the generalization that most emos are also in their pre-teens to teens. With this in mind, this is literally just how most people react to puberty and the hormone changes (and social changes) that keep happing throughout their teens. Its called being a teen, its not new and you can trace this mentality through all kinds of teen trends throughout history. Even teens who don't follow a music or style culture still tend to have this mentality. >
  
  You realize that the fact that other ethnicities and groups face discrimination doesn’t invalidate the feelings of being social outcasts and ostracization that emo people may feel.
  Just because some people are dying of cancer doesn’t make the pain of your fractured wrist any less real or valid. >
  
  True. I guess what i meant to say is it seems rather self-imposed, unlike racism or religious persecution >
  
  Being bullied and outcast by society is self-imposed? >
  
  "bullied and outcast by society" is exactly what i mean. the reject identity is so cliche and glorified by tv/movies >
  
  Are you are going that people who are bullied and ostracized are just making it up? >
  
  branding yourself as "ostracized" is kinda self centered imo. only those who didn't face prior discrimination would feel the need to do so. >
  
  There is no ostracisation in homogeneous societies / communities? >
  
  there most definitely is. and it shouldn't be idolized imo, especially when much harsher ostracisation exists