Right. Again, this is about the choices that were made that eventually led to this. Doesn’t matter if it’s right, wrong, or accurate, just interesting and goofy what was kept and changed.

It’s just the redundancy of the definite article. It doesn’t matter. It’s just goofy in the way that languages incorporate foreign words— of all the different ways that could could have been chosen, this was it. I reminds me of when I heard someone talking about “the Hezbollah.”

So now you have two meanings, one used by people who are involved in that particular identity and influence the cultural changes within their community, and another meaning used by people who are trying to describe a community they aren’t a part of and don’t understand.

“La Alhambra” is grammatically goofy.

Thanks person who used wikipedia to support his/her argument. That’s really helpful and doesn’t have any bearing to what is believed outside of internet dorks writing nonsense.

Please don’t explain language to me. The argument that you and others give also shows the very weakness of specificity transforming into something understood by general audiences: concepts and their signifiers eventually become to vague to having useful meaning or they transform into a concept that exposes mainstream…

So people who aren’t involved in a community (talking about the straight edge community) get to redefine what another community is about and we shouldn’t question that because it’s more “functional” (lazy) for outsiders? Cool. Can you imagine some of the problems that come from that in general? I can give you a few…

Please stop with those definitions. They are not common and ridiculed by people within the community.

You’re missing the point: abstaining from sex does not define straight edge. Just like being vegan does not define straight edge. This isn’t me defining it. This is the common understanding within the community (and we are talking globally— the neat thing about hardcore is the far ranging connections that can be…

Being straight edge has nothing to do with the second sentence or it doesn’t impart anything meaningful to inform the second sentence. The original sentence tries to subvert relationships through items that are supposed to be unlike each other but then tie them together through some kind of false reasoning or an…

You don’t understand words or sentence structure, do you?

Why are you trying to tell me about something that I was intimately involved in? And we aren’t just talking 90s. We are talking about until about five years ago. And that’s just not going to local shows anymore. I still check out bands. I still know what’s going on. I don’t need an online dictionary to tell me about a…

It’s a person involved in the punk hardcore who doesn’t drink or do drugs and self-identifies as straight edge. There’s a history. I was pretty deep into this for about twenty years (I still don’t drink or drug it up, I just don’t really participate in that community any more). It’s really corny when people who aren’t…

No. I know what these words mean better than you.

Straight Edge doesn’t have anything to do with sexuality. That’s just weird stuff posers and squares associate with it.

“I’m straight-edge. My interest in SexCoven is exclusively anthropological.”

Not everyone has the same experiences and social demographics.

You asked “How is Emilia Clarke a ‘Privilege Person’?”

No. This isn’t what happens.

This is a terrible analogy.