Felt like they were on the rage as I was finishing high school, but now they’re nowhere to be seen.

I’d wager most of you haven’t even heard the term ‘straight-edge’ in months, or possibly years.

  • whaleross@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    People that listen to hardcore that abstain from drugs and alcohol and commonly also from eating meat. They were easily recognizable by having painted a large sXe with a marker on their hand and maybe some additional letters on top and bottom for their particular flavour of Straight Edge. Here in Sweden they were quite common amongst punk rockers from the mid eighties up to late nineties.

    See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_edge

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 hours ago

      From you link:

      While the commonly expressed aspects of the straight edge subculture have been abstinence from alcohol, nicotine, and illegal drugs, there have been considerable variations. Disagreements often arise as to the primary reasons for living straight edge.

      Wouldn’t having to justify why you’re making a choice to someone be anti-punk in general? If someone is disagreeing with you for you choosing to be “straight edge” shouldn’t the punk response to them be: “Fuck you”?

      Additionally, if someone that is “straight edge” is telling someone else they should also be straight edge, isn’t the response to them also “Fuck you”?

      • whaleross@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I would agree completely. But you know when kids have discovered politics they are righteous and annoying as fuck for a while until they gain other perspectives and learn to humble down. I know i was one back when the dinosaurs roamed.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      13·
      13 days ago

      Thank you for the link. I’d heard of “straight laced” but never straight edged: punk was a bit before my time and I was out off by the general punk aesthetics when I was younger, only to realize I would have gotten on famously with punks over politics and many other things.

      Having read the wiki, it sounded reasonable until it got to no caffeine, hard stop.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      4·
      13 days ago

      That’s wild. I lived there during that timeframe and I have never seen the tattoo, neither even heard of those metalheads.

      Maybe it was a regional thing? I mean in Sweden.