Since when was "Emo" a bad thing huh?!?!?

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I was going to go on for a bit about the general misconception that 'emo' is the domain of the tight-trousered, flappy-fringed fashion-victim types, but then I realise I call them emos all the time... oops

But I think the boundaries are slowly becoming more and more defined again as the vile fashion trend is encroaching its way into other genres of music and creating utterly horrible cross-genre hybrids... genres of music seemingly born out of the fashion scene alone.
Anybody on here familiar with deathcore? The genre of music home to bands such as Bring Me The Horizon, Parkway Drive and Suicide Silence. A splicing of 'hardcore' (i.e. heavy fashion-victim music, not proper hardcore like Bad Brains) and death metal, which basically ends up sounding like black metal played at extremely diminished speed, but with half the talent and all the bands wearing the usual get-up of trendy t-shirts, tight jeans and stupid asymmetric fringes.
Or EmoBM (Emo Body Music)? Although that's more of an in-joke than anything else at the moment... thankfully.

There is nothing wrong with being an Emo, or Goth Lite, they do tend to be an easy target for ridicule, which is not fair. Its just one of those fads teens go though, like Goth or Grunge, or 80's flock of Seagulls Hair I was into Punk as a teenager, and got ridiculed for wearing black jeans and black t shirts by all the disco fags, in their white polyester fagwear, this was in 1977-78 in a town that only started to listen to new wave in 1979, because it sounded like disco. Nothing wrong with not conforming to established social norms, just have fun, or as an Emo be sad and gloomy because its all good.

If I hear one more person call Bright Eyes Emo, I am going to scream. (Ha ha.) This isn't something that I comprehend at all. Same with Modest Mouse. The music isn't emo sounding at all- it's roots are more country, folk, indie rock. Just because you sing about something personal with feeling does not make you emo. If that were the case, then like eighty percent of music would be emo. Last time I checked, that's generally what songs tend to be about- an outlet for emotion. It's like calling poetry 'emo.' Or art.

It's a silly term, plain and simple.

Yes, so I see that they say that, but I still maintain that it is a silly term. If you can group early Modest Mouse, which is exceedingly folky, with a band like Quicksand, I don't consider it to be all that legitimate of a classification. But I guess Indie is a pretty sweeping term as well. Maybe I'm just prejudiced against the term, for one, because people use it in a disdainful fashion; for two, because when you say 'emo' most people think bands like My Chemical Romance, so when someone says, "Modest Mouse is emo," or "Bright Eyes is emo," it certainly sounds like they are equating it with bands like My Chemical Romance. For three, because I don't think it's all that appropriate. As I said, singing with emotion is pretty dang typical across the board. But I get your point.

i didnt know emo was a word back then????
the first time i heard of that word was my freshman year which was 05-06 school year.
idk cuz when i think of the word emo i think of people who have layed short hair, side bangs, band-t's, likes techno & emo/screamo music duhhh and lots more stuff but i add people like that on myspace and there really mean people i dont like them or maybe cuz there myspace whores who dress emo idk but the stuff they talk about makes me laugh sometimes.
and i really hate when people start calling bands who are not emo but they put them in the catergory of emo cuz they dress like it but there music sounds nothing like emo thats what i hate!! !
my friend thinks matchbox twenty is emo!! !
i mean come on what is this world coming too seriously???
theres some emo bands i like but i definately hate screamo music i used to but i hate music that screams now.

my thing with emo, it strikes me as a "poser" metal, try to both be heavy metal and punk, satisfying neither. Real punk is violent and a half step away from a right, Metal is primal anger that is internalized. Emo is angst and sadness interalized.

Bands like Rites of Spring and Embrace are the only bands that are emo to me. Jawbreaker is pending...
All this 2nd wave, 3rd wave, 4th wave I don't believe in.

Judging by these posts I am assuming no one here is Emo, my cousins into that "emo" stuff, she's into Underoath and stuff, I don't know if that's considered emo.

When I think of emos, I think of pale anorexic kids with black straighten hair, tight jeans, converse shoes, I guess they dress like a sad punk, but I don't think as cutting wrists.

I hate how they get all mad when you make like emo jokes or if you happen to like the same band as them! Why is there certain requirements to like a band or clothing!? Then they say they hate stereotypes when the stereotype themselves like they assume preppy people are sl*ts. My cousin HATES Miley Cyrus and she tells me because she can't sing and she says she's a sl*t.

I don't know if emos are the only ones who do it, but you got these people who spend their whole life bashing Miley, these people NEVER even met the girl, she could be a saint for all they know!

In my opinion, they're just a bunch of morons. Don't listen to emo-hating trash.