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Back in the 90's, it was supposedly desirable with the women for a man to be in touch with his feelings. Today, such people are labelled "emo" and are mocked ruthlessly and mercilessly, especially amongst teenagers, as even just a casual perusing of myspace will reveal.

Then again, a few good jokes come from this turn of events: "I wish my lawn was emo, that way it would cut itself." :-)

It's not just the teens, though - apparently more than a few women discovered that such men aren't all that desirable after all:
http://www.heartless-bitches.com/rants/niceguys/niceguys.shtml
Inded,there's a whole catalog of similar complaints:
http://www.heartless-bitches.com/rants/niceguys/ng.shtml

I know these rants aren't the way ALL women feel, just like not all teens mock emo kids, but the whole emo thing was a modern invention in the first place and these kinds of rejections of it suggest it was only ever just a fad after all. You find other more wide-spread rejection all over the place if you look around. Guys - it turns out women really don't want men who show emotion after all. Forget everything you were told in the 90s :-p

Ooh, look at my zippy comment at the bottom of this slashdot page - it's a special message just for Sol, or rather for everyone else around Sol :)
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  • Teenage son: "I think I'm going to be an Emo for Halloween."
    Wife: "What's an 'Emo'?"
    Me: "Just like a Goth, only not as happy."
  • Find someone you can please and who pleases you.

    I dated women who didn't want someone who was fairly generous, those relationships ended. I date some women who wanted more from me than I was willing to give, those relationships ended. I dated some women who were in it only for themselves, and those relationships ended.

    The one relationship that has lasted is with my wife. We have similar expectations of each other and continue to fulfill them. I found someone who I was able to please, and she is able to
    • Reminds me of something the Custom Product Department Manager at a previous job told me. He said when he was in college, he went to Panama City for spring break. he said they were out on the beach and they found some girls, and they were all drinking and they took the girls back to their room. He said, he and his girl were in his room and he took his pants off. She looked down and said, "And just who do you think you are going to please with THAT little thing?" He said he looked at her and said, "Me!"

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by FroMan ( 111520 )
        Ouch... I don't think that'd be a story I'd tell my friends or coworkers... I mean really, would you want your coworkers thinking you had a little thing?

        I think I know the perfect woman for him. The Lucy Lui bot. I love you PHILIP J. FRY.
        • I'm pretty sure he made it up. (The manager of the Custom Products Department was ALWAYS a salesman, so you know you can't trust them.) Or else he didn't care because his wife was SMOKING hot.
  • emo- metrosexual from a few years back, with a new and less popular name EMO- Eccumenical Ministries of Oregon, a left wing Christian interfaith group that has convinced our Archbishop that Global Warming is more of a problem than Abortion (for some reason, the Pro-life right wingers thing Abortion is more important, the pro-environment left wingers think Global Warming is more important- and nobody in the argument in the Archdiocese of Portland has recognized that Pope Benedict XVI claimes they're the sam
    • If there aren't any seams in your clothing... how do you get into them?
      • Seamless != openless. A cloak made out of a single piece of woven cloth is seamless, as are most handmade sweaters (the type you get in the store usually isn't). A good seam you can't put a limb through anyway- good seams are usually double sewn shut, bad ones you could put a limb through because they are single sewn- but you'd ruin the garment.

        What the Popes mean by a seamless garment of life is that we shouldn't discriminate against a zygote (on purpose) just because it hasn't been born yet; and that j
        • I knew what you meant, I was just being silly. ;)

          As for the contraception part... personally, I think that's a misinterpretation of the Christian scriptures. Onan wasn't punished because he spilt his seed, but because he didn't do what was right by bearing his brother a son with his brother's wife. If he hadn't wanted to bear a son for his brother, he could have symbolically divorced her.

          Of course, I'm not a Christian.
          • As for the contraception part... personally, I think that's a misinterpretation of the Christian scriptures. Onan wasn't punished because he spilt his seed, but because he didn't do what was right by bearing his brother a son with his brother's wife. If he hadn't wanted to bear a son for his brother, he could have symbolically divorced her.

            It would be if the contraception thing was seen as an interpretation of that verse. It isn't for the Roman Catholic Church- where Tradition and Scripture go hand in ha
            • Ah, I didn't know that. :) I've only had passing experience with Catholics, and they usually don't argue with me. :) Thanks for enlightening me.
        • ...but I'd certainly agree that war, harming the environment, euthanasia, the death penalty, murder, and abortion are all pretty much the same sin.

          Oh good, I like puzzles. Let's see, we have killing people, polluting, killing people, killing people, killing people, and killing people. Okay, I think I might've figured out which one doesn't belong. Is there a prize?
          • Oh good, I like puzzles. Let's see, we have killing people, polluting, killing people, killing people, killing people, and killing people. Okay, I think I might've figured out which one doesn't belong. Is there a prize?

            If so, you don't win it because you failed to realize that pollution kills people (albeit a bit more slowly in the United States now that we have the EPA and similar agencies elsewhere in the world preventing MAJOR polution events like Love Canal [wikipedia.org] or The Bhopal Disaster [wikipedia.org]. Global warming's a
  • the ignorance of what "emo" really is, is stupefying. it really is mainstream media's fault. emocore was a sub-genre of the hardcore music scene. a rebellion of onslaught hyper speed hardcore punk of the 80's. the music was still hardcore, but it got a little slower, a lot more melodic and the songs less socio-political or nihilistic and more personal, expressive. rites of spring in dc, jawbreaker in nyc, samiam in san fran all were coming together in the late 80's to invent the genre and movement.

    it had no
    • the ignorance of what Any Subculture really is, is stupefying. it really is mainstream media's fault.

      Fixed that for you.

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        by blinder ( 153117 ) *
        hehehe, yes yes, of course, i was trying to stay on point, but alas, this is much more accurate statement.
  • Back in the 90's, it was supposedly desirable with the women for a man to be in touch with his feelings. Today, such people are labelled "emo" and are mocked ruthlessly and mercilessly, especially amongst teenagers, as even just a casual perusing of myspace will reveal.

    I know these rants aren't the way ALL women feel, just like not all teens mock emo kids, but the whole emo thing was a modern invention in the first place and these kinds of rejections of it suggest it was only ever just a fad after all. Y
  • Oh, instructions [slashdot.org] on how to be a retrosexual man.

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