This is Emo

In this reading, the author talks about how media changed how we feel about love. In movies, TV and songs, love is perfect and soulmates are meant for each other. He calls this fake love. each of the characters are unnatural, like Cinderella and Prince Charming. This makes people feel different about love and feel like their love isn’t good enough. We are never satisfied with the real love we have because it doesn’t seem like the love in media.

This made me think of my pre school. Everyone watched Disney movies, so, us being kids, we though everyone kissed all the time.

Our entire pre school was just kissing each other all the time because it’s what we saw in the Disney movies. Kids would be like “hey Tommy” and just start making out. girl on girl, guy on girl, guy on guy, didn’t matter. We were just hooking up with everyone. The teachers called in every student’s parents to give a talk to their kids that we can’t just kiss each other all the time. It was a very weird time…