I hate to link to things that make stupid people money, but really this just reveals her as incredibly out of touch. And its a classic example of confusing the symptom for the disease. "What's that, Suzie is depressed and cuts herself? Well you'd better make sure to destroy all her CDs and take her to church."
Even if the comments of Ricci have an effect, isn't that cause for concern, too? That your child is commiting acts of self-mutilation because she read about it in a magazine? Isn't that type of behavior more alarming than doing it out of depression? God there aren't enough ways to describe how wrong this whole thing is.
And of course, as described in nearly every other blog that has commented on this, this statement: There is even a new genre of music -- "emo" -- associated with promoting the cutting culture.
You mean "new" like the way the Internet is new? New as in the music a friend of mine had a radio show devoted to 10 years ago? New as in Sunny Day Real Estate a band which formed in 1993 and broke up in 1995?
Promoting? Definitely an issue between correlation and causality here. Emo in general is characterized by music designed for young people who are depressed, confused, and lonely (which describes about 95% of young people, really).
God I've got to stop, its just so stupid I can't.
I honestly don't give a rat's ass about the article. I've been trying to contact Kevin for more years than I can remember. Thanks for the enigmatic post it in the On Star envelope. I KNEW you would find me once I quit drinking again just to make it a pain to share that bottle of wine!
Email me soon, you nut!
Sid
You NUT! Email me so we can share that bottle of wine!
Sid Redlin
Okay, now the real comment after having read the article. I WAS one of those "emo" cutter kids with a penchant for Joy Division and writing bad hate poetry. I lived through it. It's called teen rebellion.
I know anyone reading this right now is having a good laugh over the article as well. What scares me is that someone as ignorant and dull as this author may try to one day put Moon, my daughter, on Ritilin (sp?) for doing something like this. Of course I'll be concerned if I find Moon cutting herself, but the entire tone of this article is laughable, as well as a decade or two late.
It all brings to mind the media scare over Dungeons and Dragons "way back in the day". "The kids are crawling into sewers and hunting for dragons!"