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Originally Posted by acousticrock87
To an extent, it takes guts to dress emo.
Of course, some people do it just to be "accepted," but that's not always the case.
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I feel the opposite. I feel that it takes more guts not to buy into a scene. I mean, I know these kids say they are just being themselves, but I have a hard time swallowing that explaination when they go to Cosmic or Hot Topic and buy their clothes and all comb their hair the same way. Is it possible that they all happen to be the same on the inside, so that only by coincidence do they all have the same exterior appearance with their efforts to express themselves? Yes; but it's very unlikely.
Now, of course, and I will conflict my own words here, but only to express the fact that I'm not blindly convinced by what I say and I am reasonable in my explaination of things, that we are all victims of this. We could really examine ourselves and ask if we would do
any of the things we do and wear any of the clothes we wear if it were not due to some outside influence. And sure, we are all succeptable to this and you can argue all day about whether or not this is a good thing. But I feel that when you have fooled yourself into believing that you are so different than everyone else, when in reality, you have only chosen to conform to a different style and standard than what
you feel is most common, then you have an issue that goes beyond simply caving to what is popular.