People generally think of conservative types as pretty good at raising kids. Values, discipline, what not. But sometimes, one of them says something that is just so flippin' inane, you weep for their kids. Via Adrienne, I'm reminded of a particular item I wanted to blog. Michelle Malkin is shocked (*shocked*) to hear of the "new youth craze":
Have you heard of "cutting"? If you're a parent, you'd better read up. "Cutting" refers to self-mutilation -- using knives, razor blades or even safety pins to deliberately harm one's own body -- and it's spreading to a school near you...There is even a new genre of music -- "emo" -- associated with promoting the cutting culture.
This is just so goddamned gobsmackingly stupid that it defies explanation. Rarely does someone demonstrate her abject ignorance of the world around her as this. Maybe if Michelle Malkin didn't have her nose pressed into the binding of National Review all throughout high school, she would know that this phenomenon has existed since at least her high school days, and that "emo" has been around for, oh, 15 or 20 years, and is not "associated with promoting the cutting culture."
You know Michelle, you might want to pull your head out of the sand, for your children's sake. It's a big, scary world out there, but you'd do well to learn a bit about it so that when your own children bump into it, you aren't caught off guard.
But at least she'll be able to tell them all about the virtues of internment.
Crap.
It can be traced back at least to Zero Watt and the Blades, of Ohio, in the late 1970s. Was Malkin even born then? Does she believe her generation invented everything?
And...she's spawned KIDS? Oh dear. I too weep for the future.
Posted by: some guy | February 27, 2005 at 08:47 AM
i think this is probably the only time i've ever agreed with michelle malkin in any way:
the childrens of today need to be kept away from 'emo.' what terrible shit. if only some sort of malkin-inspired nationwide anti-'emo' movement would start...just think, saddle creek record-burning rallies, the marilyn-manson-ification of 'conor oberst.'
it'd just be too delicious.
god i hate 'emo.'
Posted by: ethan | March 01, 2005 at 01:32 AM