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I could understand goth clubs. I could understand gay
clubs and bondage clubs. I could even understand swinging
clubs, but what I do not understand are crying clubs.
In some circles this has actually become hip and popular.
It's called 'Emo' for emotional and the whole idea is to
express your darker, more depressed emotions. And now
there are clubs where you can go to commiserate and cry
with other Emos.
Against a backdrop of crashing choral music and candle-
light, a group of elaborately costumed young women are
dabbing their eyes with a handkerchief, their mascara
running to form black rivulets down their cheeks. It is
not difficult to see why they are so distressed: in front
of them, a mound of pungent onions is being vigorously and
elaborately chopped by a serious-looking young man in a
tailcoat, and the fumes are overwhelming.
But then that's precisely the point. The 300 or so 20 and
30-somethings in the crowd at this candlelit 17th-century
wine vault, tucked away off a busy London thoroughfare, are
here to do just that.
Billed as 'an evening of exquisite misery', this is where
clubbers can go to indulge their inner gloom. The onions
are there to help them along a bit, should they struggle
to shed their British reserve.
The club, called 'Loss' is one of a new breed of crying
clubs to arrive in the UK from Japan, where tears have
become something of an industry in recent years.
Crying in public has even caught on in the United States,
too. Although no U.S. entrepreneurs have opened any clubs
yet.
Of course, if you actually have a life you don't need to
invent excuses or create venues to cry in. A second
mortgage, one kid in college and two more getting ready
for college, a receding hairline and a fond reminiscence
for the halcyon days of middle age should be enough to
make any man cry.
Nem-
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Well, as my grandma used to say, "for crying out loud!"
Thanks, I needed that.
Bob
Iiiiiiiiinteresting...
Beeing forced to cry?
That's fucked up bullshit.
Emo is bad enough!
strange, again, very strange, lol
Um, ... that's absolutely ridiculous.
That's very odd. I hate crying in front of people, unless it's my BF, and then he's only seen me cry once.
I think I'd rather go to a comedy club myself. Aren't people already focused way too much on their own personal misery, which usually ends up being not as tragic as it seems? I hate to play the Goblin card, but I think not being part of the in crowd or not having an Ipod or dealing with a relationship that's ended is nowhere near as tragic as being homeless and starving to death or worse.
Oh, and would one of you kind souls explain something to this old fart? What the hell is emo?
oh my! Crying's now become an industry! *sighs* What people won't do for money! About the piece itself, wierd!
Oh, and if it's so hip to express the darker emotions, let's not stop at sorrow and depression. How about these:
1. Anger/aggression clubs. This is where you can take out all your violent impulses on either another human being or an incredible simulation if you actually don't want to break real bones or draw real blood. But you can do it in public with all your friends looking on so they can know just how awesome and edgy you really are!
2. Cruelty/mocking clubs. This is where you can make fun of a given target. Foreigner, disabled, alternative lifestyle, fat, thin, physically grotesque, undefined but just pure evil, you can now mock and berate one or all of these people in a safe environment without fear of lawsuit or other forms of revenge.
3. Moaning Myrtle's Pit of Non-Stop Despair! This place is where you can complain about what's wrong with everything, as long as the subjects make you feel utterly empty and helpless and you re overwhelmed with total futility. Prizes go to the person who can come up with the most devastating scenarios. However, if you have suicidal tendancies, you are advised not to attend.
4. The Icy Caverns of Self-Hatred. If it isn't enough to be cruel to your fellow humans just for existing, if you feel your birth was an act of world terrorism or that you are not worth breathing your own oxygen supply, you can go here and either reel off all the reasons why you suck just for being here, or we have various tools and techniques you can use to punish yourself for being born, or our obliging staff can do such things for you for a reasonable fee. However, if we're a little too rough with you, you are strongly advised not to sue us because you're such a waste of genetic material that you probably deserved it, didn't you?
Now, all you oh-so-dark and edgy emo folks, you know you want to get into all that, don't you? Just think about it.
Holy shit! and I thought the crying club thing was weird. *cringes*
Just be glad I made those others up. But I figure if people are so into tapping into the dark side, those are possibilities.
Really not a bad idea at all these various clubs Godzilla,
I mean for like boundaries you've included though some may be considered loose and not perhaps serving a purpose by some persons standards and yet I ask, "Why not?"
Too often persons are encouraged to come across all upbeat and happy like when that is the farthest of where they are at in their feelings and emotions. I am for folks getting down honestly with where they are at and not covering up and hiding from their true selves.
True some persons desire to have a "pity party" as it were than for no other reason than to totally seek attention...but then again if the participants are agreed to having this type of a party/club/gathering then who am I to object..??
Like how it is said by the various newscasters, "He was so quiet and withdrawn that he would not hurt a flea." and yet the various shoot-outs occurs. Yes, I am all in favor of persons being enable to talk/act it out in a place of established boundaries.
Connie
I totally agree with you Connie on that point! Godzilla, Wow! Those are some interesting, if not scary, clubs!
First of all, I really made these clubs up as a very dark parody or satire. I'm no expert on waht would be psychologically healthy for people, but I think even if you had safe places where folks could indulge in any petty little urge, I fear there might be consequences that would carry over to real life and be dangerous. I wonder if anyone's written any sci-fi stories on the subject and its possible outcomes. I'm not into people being falsely happy, but I do think people use their own imaginations to make themselves miserable when they don't deserve to treat themselves that way. We put everyone but ourselves on pedestals, compare ourselves with others and conclude we should be taken out and shot for wasting oxygen, worry about things we can't do a bloody thing about, and so forth. The happiness I want to see is a mellow contentedness with life, kind of like a purring cat, and not the bouncy annoying happiness of some cartoon character.
Yes, it is understood that you made up these clubs as a very dark parody or satire as a spin-off from the emo club take. The situation being is though that in this mellowness purring cat type of a club (Yes, it is understood that this is a made up fantasy club of your deepest desires) yet still I don't envision folks being enabled to get down to a reality expression of where they may be at in a particular moment in that soft fluffy place of yours (unless of course that is where they are at or where at a time in passing they desire to be ~ and I am not knocking that club ither, though "club" does seem a bit of a harsh term to use when the word "mellow" is being used...)
I guess it is the situation that is most bothersome is whenever anyone comes out anywhere and says anything about any group or anything anywhere that anymore they are immediately hauled off to the nearest rehab. in order that they come from that place speaking in a manner that is of the highest order of being politically correct and succumingly pleasing to everyone else (whether deep down in their soul that is where they are at or not) or else the consequences are is that they are considered the scum of the worst sort of bile and need to be blown as it were from off the face of the earth...and if that can not be achieved then at least fired and let go from their places of employment. Persons are in need to let off some steam as it were in this pressure cooker style of a world that oft we find ourselves embroiled within. These could be clubs in a coffee-house &/or pub style where creativity of personal expression is encouraged...within a set of boundaries that provides for a safety net as it were.
So bring on the Anger/aggression clubs, the Cruelty/mocking clubs, the place of the Moaning Myrtle's Pit of Non-Stop Despair!, The Icy Caverns of Self-Hatred,
...and let us too allow for the Mellowness purring kitty kat klubs... hmm that could be interesting.
As a final note, the bouncy annoying happiness of some cartoon character club can be found in the "Chuckie Cheeses" family type of restaurants . Don't know if they have them in your location or no. They have dressed up persons as cartoon characters, kid type of movies and all the while serving pizza as well as deli type sandwiches along with a fully housed area of video games and so forth... Must say they are about the noisiest place anywhere. They are a great place to plan for a young person's birthday party as you can take in your own prepared birthday cake for the occasion and the what could be the mess of it all..well, your home kitchen/dinning area remains in good order.
Connie
o man I am definitely gonig there. lol. not.
God! To think it's actually "cool" to suffer real sadness and real depression. Seems to me this crowd is mocking what true emotional pain is. I bet you none of these "bawling" idiots knows what it's like to be raped by your grandfather at the tender age of six. Well I do! Or how about being forced to watch your mother getting the crap beat out of her in the street by her boyfriend after she tried to run away from him with me and my five sibs. Or to watch as a stranger falls in to a drunken stupor and suffocates your 3-month-old brother to death, and you are utterly helpless to do anything about it. Yeah, I've been through all this, and I don't have to sniff onions to feel pain, ok? God! Get a fucking life, people! Not you Zoners, the Crying Club. Nt asking anyone to feel sorry for me, just saying I know what real pain isnd to see these idiots mock pain like it's some kind of sick trend is enough to make me very angry.
Omg! What are these people thinking? I hear enough about this emo bullshit as it is, that shouldn't be a trend in itself, how pathetic! As for being able to express yourself safely in a different type of subculture, it's called do this shit in your own home. If you're that miserable with your life, cry in your room, write poetry, I don't care what you do, but if this keeps up, it will become acceptable to act however you want in public, and although I do think society tends to set impossible standards for how people should think and act, I also don't think completely dropping those standards is the right way to go either, because nothing should be in extremes, there should be a middle ground somewhere in there.
okay yeah so crying like that is weird i admit. but what's the deal with people just talking about emos like they're just over emotional cry babies that do nothing but sit in the dark sob and write poetry, which is the stereo type for emo but i am friends with many emos and might have been considered emo at one point in my life, but emo is mostly a style of music and clothes rather than these emotional people that have nothing better to do than sob all day... so yeah i just had to come to the defense of the emos out there lol, and P.S. if its alright to have a gay club why not a emo club? i mean most clubs are for tallents or doing good or doing things to improve your future, and last time i checked gay straight alliance wasnt doing any of those things, so if the people that think they want to cry just let them. just like the people that want to bond with other gay people... its their life.
there is nothing wrong with emos, I agree.
However the thing that kinda annoys me about the whole emo thing is that it's not really just about the music anymore but in a way it's kind of become more of a subculture thing as well and dont' get me wrong there is really nothing wrong with it per say but it's just a little bit unhealthy some of the things that they do. I've been told by several people I could be considered emo but like in a way that's just saying you're someone who very much expresses their emotions.
At the risk of sounding ignorant, what's emo? I would not do well in one of these crying clubs, but I guess if it works for some, well all right. Btw, loved the made up clubs too, smile. Have often thought I'd like to go someplace where I could break dishes to express some pent-up anger, but would hate to clean up the mess, so will just have to find another way, oh well.
I too am a little ignorant about what an emo is, and the emo culture. Could someone enlighten me? I do have to say that this crying club sounds odd, to say the least. But whatever floats your boat, I guess. Personally, I only cry in front of those I'm closest to.
I will spell out the emo way of life:
Not only is it overemotional music emphasized by gloomy lyrics delivered by a whiny, crybaby vocalist, but it is a lifestyle.
Yes, these people are the cutters, the bleeders, and the people who cannot seem to take there heads out of there asses long enough to see that the world does not actually revolve around them.
It's a shame for people like me who actually no what real pain is...it gives psychology a bad name.