Straight edge. Some people may not know what this is. Right now those people who are reading this who may not know what it is may be asking themselves what is straight edge? Other people may be saying oh I know what straight edge is. For those who do not know what straight edge is this is what it is: it discourages drug use, alcohol use, and casual sex. Some people that are straight edge may not have caffeine. Others do. Some are vegans or vegetarians. Minor Threat was the one of the first bands to preach about it. The X’s were put on minors’ hands when they went to concerts so they could not buy alcohol. People who were over the age started to put the X’s on their hands to show that they didn’t drink. Straight edge is not a religion. There is no church for it. Some reason teens give for being straight edge are they wanted to control their own lives or they were raised in an alcoholic family. You do not join straight edge. You do not have to be a vegan or vegetarian. Some kids say you shouldn't take any drugs. Some straight edgers exclude all drugs including aspirin. Minor Threat has a song called straight edge. SXe means straight edge, it’s just an acronym for it. If you used to drink or do drugs in the past you can be straight edge.

There's nothing wrong with straight edge and there is no "set" guidelines. Its been around for quite a while and ever since then SXes have been receiving awful reputations. There are straight edgers who do it just to be cool and then there are those people who take it seriously like every other thing in the world so don't loop them together a gigantic category and stereotype them.

I say let them do whatever they want. Its basically a way of making being good cool. What's so wrong with that?

hmm thats the first time I have ever heard anything about Straight Edge.. its a good concept, and the fact that theres nothing to join and you make up your own rules for it could be good and could be bad.. its still a nice idea.. hmm interesting..

I'm not straight edge, but I support people who are. It's just a personal decision.

Hardcore is robbing a bank after finishing a 12pack of beer and driving a cop car through the city while getting road head by a 50 year old hooker.. Thats hardcore.

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Gotta love American hardcore.

There is nothing "hardcore" about hardcore music, and theres is definetley nothing hardcore about being straight edge. I think its ironic how all the "straight edgers" I know are steelers.

Megaroni, i have nothing against straight edge people. I'm saying what society in general thinks in my perspective.

This post is very repetitive. I find that in reading it once through, I have read it four times. At least.

Agh, I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear, Megaroni. I do agree with straight edge. I was just saying that its good for people to set their own guidelines.

Maybe some straight edgers are cool, but here in Nebraska the straight edge movement that I've seen is associated with skinheads and a gang type mentality, although they focus their harrassment (which is sometimes violent) on drug users outside bars and they ignore the part about casual sex...

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Originally posted by clpo13:
Straight edge? Sounds like something you draw a line with. I call it a ruler. Wait, wrong type of straight edge.

Seriously though, this is the kind of thing I've been telling people about all along. I don't like set guidelines. People should set their morals according to their own conscience, not according to what some unknown priest thinks should be right. I'll proclaim that I'm a straight edger. I don't do drugs. I'll never smoke. I even hate the taste of alcohol (I'm not kidding, beer, wine, whiskey, they're all disgusting).

They do set theirt morals to their own conscience.It's not to some priest.It's for them and what they think is right.

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Originally posted by bella123:
I've heard it growing and growing into teenagers' lives today.

First they call it ghetto.

Then they call is the new fad.

What IS this world coming to?

I don't see what people have against people who are straight edge.

I've heard it growing and growing into teenagers' lives today.

First they call it ghetto.

Then they call is the new fad.

What IS this world coming to?

Straight edge? Sounds like something you draw a line with. I call it a ruler. Wait, wrong type of straight edge.

Seriously though, this is the kind of thing I've been telling people about all along. I don't like set guidelines. People should set their morals according to their own conscience, not according to what some unknown priest thinks should be right. I'll proclaim that I'm a straight edger. I don't do drugs. I'll never smoke. I even hate the taste of alcohol (I'm not kidding, beer, wine, whiskey, they're all disgusting).

I'd heard of it, but honestly, I didn't really know what it meant until this thread.
But to me, it doesn't seem stupid at all. Or like mormons...
I like it. It's a trend that includes kids standing up for their moral beliefs and proudly proclaiming that they won't sacrifice integrity. Nothing about God, no mindless devotion.

Yeah, I had never heard of it until this post, but I swear that it sounds just like the Mormans.

Eh, straight edge was a bit insane back in the eightys, but it's cooled down now. But I wouldn't have compared that to moromons, that was more, insane as in you could get hit with a baseball bat for smoking. Gotta love American hardcore.

This is stupid. You say it isn't a church, but it sounds a whole helluva lot like the mormans to me.

It's not stupid.

what a stupid trend.