Emo / Depression

Does anyone think it's kind of funny how all this emo shit just started "happening" to teenagers roughly around the same time that kids started having so much free time on their hands?

Now I'm not excluding my generation, by any means. I was watching The Breakfast Club just last week and if those kids weren't emo, I don't know who is. I'm just thinking that my parents probably weren't all emo and stuff because they didn't have freaking time for that kind of thing.

I can't help but think that all this teenage angst is a direct result of people having entirely too much time for self-absorption self-reflection.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Obviously I wasn't talking about clinical depression, although I do think that there are more depressed people now than ever. I'd have to look up the statistics on that, but I'm pretty sure that's accurate.

I totally stick by my theory, by the way. It could be something as simplistic as the fact that people used to be more physically active or possibly it's because they literally didn't have time to sit around and angst over their pitiful lives, but I guarantee you that none of our grandparents experienced this emo bullshit attitude that you see so much these days. For one thing, their parents would have slapped the shit out of them and told them to get a better attitude. For another, as I said before, they simply didn't have several hours each day to devote to being depressed.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Cyrus XIII

No offense, but I seriously hope you will never raise children. Not that I'd expect you to beat them around on a daily basis but you simply seem to lack any empathy for the emotional sensibilities of other people.

It sickens me when people refer to the wide use of corporal punishment as a reason why things used to be better in "the old times".

I have three children, but I fail to see what that has to do with anything. I said our grandparents' parents would have slapped the shit out of them. Do you really think they wouldn't have?

These people had WORK to do. They went to school (if they were lucky), worked their asses off at home, and often worked outside the home, as well. My own grandmother practically raised her five younger siblings, cooked all the meals, essentially ran the entire household and still managed to graduate from high school. My grandfather was raised on a farm and I can ASSURE you there was no time for him to hide in his room and cry himself to sleep over his horrible life. Not being a productive member of a family simply wasn't an option, nor was choosing to mope around and angst for hours on end.

And you can take your little rant about corporal punishment and shove it up your ass. Although I've very rarely spanked my own children, that doesn't change the fact that the world was a better place when kids had respect (possibly brought about by a healthy fear of getting their asses beat if they didn't act respectably) and accepted their roles as contributing members of their families and society. I hope YOU never raise children.

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There is comedy in this thread.

Comedy GOLD.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I hate quote wars...they're so tedious. Look, I specifically said I wasn't talking about clinical depression. My mother has been depressed for as long as I've known her, I've suffered more than one bout of depression, and during the most recent one I had to take medication for about a year. My sister was recently diagnosed with "severe depression," so don't assume I'm one of those people who doesn't believe in depression, OK?

I'm referring to the modern-day spoiled brats who whine and cry and hide in their rooms because their mom made meat loaf for dinner. Kids who don't have to work for anything and have entirely TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS. If you don't think kids like that could use a good slap, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.

For what it's worth, I am a huge supporter of corporal punishment in moderation, and would have used it more with my children if not for the fear of someone yelling "child abuse." I do not support mistreating kids. There's a big, big difference between spanking a kid and beating a kid. What it boils down to is that in order for kids to respect you, you have to instill in them what I call a "healthy fear," which is completely different from the kind of fear a child who is ABUSED feels toward his parents.

If you actually agreed with me on this issue, I'd fall over dead where I sit, so we're probably going to have to call a truce on this one.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I'm not. Where did you read that?

I was speaking idiomatically.

I don't see what the problem is. I didn't create this thread, and if I had, I wouldn't have included the word "depression," since to me, that words implies "clinical depression." Anything else is just angst.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Yes, but that kind of depression isn't a way of life. It's pretty much equivalent to being in a bad mood, and it passes. That's not what I'm talking about.

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