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This is a very good example of what an emo person would post

More incel than emo I think.

It's funny that you say this because that's exactly how the word "emo" was used circa 2008. The same way anything really uncool and disliked and uncannily edgy is just reflexively called "incel", everything effeminate, dorky, and so on was "emo". Hipster went through the same cycle a few years after emo.

By the time these words go so mainstream, they lose all of their nuance and just became fill-ins for basic emotions, I guess.

You think wrong.

I mean, do I though? I'm aware of it's source from urban dictionary under "emo", but I can't help but feel that rant is weirdly steeped in misogyny and twisted notions of the masculine ideal.

Well, if you can explain how a guy who is married for fifteen years to the same woman, and has two kids with her, is in involuntary celibate, I'd be glad to stand corrected.

I like that you posted something somebody else wrote and then took it personally when somebody commented on the nature of the text that you didn’t write. It’s good discourse

Oh! I understand the contention now. It wasn't really intended as an ad hominem against you. Rather, I meant that the passage to me reads like an incel-aligned world view being projected onto the author's description of what it means to be emo. The end result is more incel than emo sounding to me.

Well, are they your kids or her boyfriend's?

Guilty as accused :)

That's from Urban Dictionary:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emo&page=3

Your got your post flagged but nothing you posted is wrong.

The post doesn’t add thoughtful commentary to the discussion, and doesn’t really belong on HN.

Some might consider it flamebait (like much content from urban dictionary), which is against the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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