El odio a los Emos

Have you heard about a recent emo-bashing insurgence in Mexico? I am not an emo myself, but I find this...I can't even find the word for it. Odd, yes. Frustrating? I guess, yeah. I don't know, tell me what you think.

There's been riots and these mobs attacking groups of emo kids in Mexico.
Here's two blogs with a bunch of links to stuff, but some links are to Mexican news sites, so if you don't know un poco de espanol, you may have to put the site into google and do a translation.
http://danielhernandez.typepad.com/daniel_hernandez/2008/03/violence-agains.html
http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/letter-from-mexico-city/more-on-the-emo-attacks-in-mex/index.php

There really hasn't been a definite word yet as to why there is so much hatred, but some believe it is because it is almost a feminine way for guys to dress, and this hatred is more of an anti-gay hatred.

Here's a video that was linked from the second blog I posted above, and from the site I got it from, it says:
"In Mexico, emo culture is a butt of many jokes. It is either despised intensely or generally ignored. But it's only the despising sentiment that lately has been getting wide airply. In the above clip, a Televisa on-air personality named Kristoff expresses a serious dose of anti-emo rhetoric and switches to English to say, on network television, "Fucking bullshit" to the emo movement. Some emos I've interviewed point to the Kristoff clip as a defining provocation of the current wave of anti-emo violence. Now check out this clip from another Televisa program where three emos are interviewed about the attacks. At the end, the kid on the left asks if he can say more thing: he directly accuses Kristoff of spreading anti-emo hate."


That clip is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQshjri6P8
If you don't speak/understand Spanish, he's basically saying "emo is a thing that 15 year-olds follow, and they only do it because they like the singer of the group, not the actual music." He also says "Is it really necessary for you to create a new genre for this? Were you not satisfied enough with punk, dead-metal or the current bands out there? Was it necessary to be like 'no, the rest of the music out there is the same...they aren't emotional enough. It's fucking bullshit. There isn't a movement, a new way to think, this isn't music. You are confusing the hard rock, punk, and screamo together with the current music to justify your stupid and cowardly movement."


What do you think about this?