Mexican Emo Bashing Turns Out To Be Typical Mexican Macho Bullshit, All Kristoff’s Fault
18 April 2008, 12:45 PM. By Cindy Casares
Emo bashing in Mexico–it’s a national crisis. So MTV, arbiters of world peace, have stepped in to provide an in-depth investigation into the matter. What they’ve uncovered is a country afraid of boys with feelings and girls with vaginas. Leader of the pack is this dipshit. A Mexican VJ on Telehit (a network of Televisa) named Kristoff who ended up on YouTube attacking emo (good) and pre-pubescent girls (not good.) In a country that historically hates its young women (see: the ongoing Juarez genocide), one might call it typical of a grown Mexican man to say something as creepy as, “Emo is something for 15 year-old girls who are barely growing hair you-know-where.” But we’d rather call it dickheaded.
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I’m not sure blaming the (Russian-born!) Kristoff is the whole story. It’s too neat, and nothing in Mexico is ever simple. Sure, the music sucks, but emos are kinda annoying whiners in a country that despises whining, but there’s more going on than one VJ’s loud mouth.
The punks are blaming the political rightwing, which makes more sense than anything else. The anti-emo attackers… if you look at the videos… were “juniors”, not the hard-core punks, who tend to be nacos and working class.
There has been a resurgence of reactionary Catholicism lately, and if you look at where attacks on emos happened — Queretaro, Celaya, Zona Rosa — you’re looking at either areas controlled by the conservative wing of PAN, or — like the Zona Rosa — in areas that the juniors have always considered their own turf.
Gays — or those perceived as gay (like the emo kids) — as Cuban writer Reyaldo Aranas pointed out several years ago — are dissidents by nature (being non-conformist in sexuality) and the first target of all totalitarians.
That’s not the whole story either, and Kristoff may have been a “useful idiot” in all this, but it’s probably more a factor than one youtube podcast.
a.) Even if what he said was fairly cringe-inducing, Kristoff is still like, super hot.
b.) @MexFiles - does saying that he’s (Russia born!) mean to insinuate that he’s less Mexican and not entitled to an opinion, even if he was raised in the culture? Does that mean people born in Peru, Mexico, Cuba, etc. born there but raised here are somehow less American and not entitled to an opinion? Dangerous…
Marco you took all the words out my mouth you little sphinx
@Guanabee: This is old news! Why do you guys post old viral videos (that no one cares about anymore)? In fact, Kristoff condemned the attacks on Emos shortly after the incidents you reported like a month ago. Cindy, get with the program. :)
@MexFiles: You’re my kind of Mexican … or Mexican American … or Chicano … or whatever it is you prefer to be called.
@Marco: you tell ‘em!
@xica_xicana: um, hi. :)
Reinaldo Arenas, not Rayaldo Aranas.
@ Mexfiles i understand you have an agenda, but don’t even start blaming reactionary catholicism because that is just too much bullshit, even for you.
No agenda here… I’m a Mexican foreign resident, and cannot pursue a political agenda. I can, however, report (even if my spelling isn’t worth a shit sometimes) what is said by Mexicans about the emo attacks. And, whether it’s bullshit or not, the belief that the right wing is behind these attacks — and a series of cultural and political events that make no sense either — is widespread.
the “punkeros”, angry teen mobs, heavy metal lovers, goth fans and kristoff are really right wing i forgot- i think the beatings are disgusting but don’t interject your comments with anti-right wing snippets that try to lay blame where it is not due.