Straight edge or not?

Originally Posted by Devo

I wouldn't consider myself "straight edge" since I'm not a part of any movement or convince myself I'm better than people by keeping clean.

This connotation to the term only really came in the recent relapse in the popularity of being a straight-edger. In the documentary Another State of Mind, Ian MacKaye (founder of sXe, former member of Minor Threat and Fugazi, owner of Dischord records) lets the completely wasted Social Distortion and Youth Brigade stay at his house during a 1982 cross country tour. The first straight-edgers just knew people who were really fucked up from drugs and they didn't want that for themselves. They didn't give a fuck what other people did. Later, it became this great convoluted self-aggrandizing bullshit with Nazi and hardliner affiliations.

Interesting side note, MacKaye (supposedly) got the inspiration for straight-edge from nonother than Ted Nugent.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Summonmaster

Absolutely "straight edge".

No drugs and no desire to even try, as I have the perception that they'll mess up my life and become an addiction. Gaming, anime and piano are probably the closest thing to drugs I'll ever bother with 8-)

No alcohol because I think it smells nasty and will probably taste gross. I laugh at all my friends who get drunk and black out after parties, and they laugh at me trying to picture me drunk. Evidently, both sides are cool.

No sex with others...Wouldn't want to risk an std, not that I could get anyone in bed >_>

I don't really party much, since I don't enjoy dancing, and my parents would be rather outraged if I stayed out past 11 or so at best.

I don't smoke by picking up cigarettes or buying them. I get enough second-hand smoke from just walking outside around Hamilton, thank you very much.

I'm not a vegetarian, and I love meat. Just not the yucky slimy fatty parts that feel like it wasn't quite cooked.

I guess the most straight-edge part is that I don't rebel or defy my parents, especially since I have no reason to.

You seem to have totally ignored all of nabhan's posts. Straight-edge isn't about what you do, it's about why you do what you do. Not liking alcohol "because it smells gross" has absolutely nothing to do with straight edge.

There's nowhere I can't reach.