Emo Kills

I don't really care too much about the particular moral panic that that dingbat Michelle Malkin's trying to stir up here, but check out that last sentence!

"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.

"Actresses Angelina Jolie and Christina Ricci did it. So did Courtney Love and the late Princess Diana. On the Internet, there are scores of websites (with titles such as 'Blood Red,' 'Razor Blade Kisses' and 'The Cutting World') featuring 'famous self-injurers,' photos of teenagers' self-inflicted wounds and descriptions of their techniques. The destructive practice has been depicted in films targeting young girls and teens (such as 'Thirteen'). There is even a new genre of music -- 'emo' -- associated with promoting the cutting culture.

Oh, man, if only! As one who spent the latter half of the 1990s at ground zero of the whole midwestern emo situation, I've often wished for those with Romulan haircuts, nerd glasses and flood pants to meet with spectacular and messy injuries, self-inflicted or otherwise.

(via Hit & Run)