“EDGE DAY”
(OCTOBER 17TH)
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(sometimes abbreviated sXe or signified by XXX or X)
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is this really necessary?
(this all seems so fucking silly)
(and i know this because ‘kevin franken’ was the first person i heard reference this ‘movement’ when we were in high school)
(it was likely invented by high school geeks who DIDN’T GET INVITED to the weekend ‘keggers)
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(“straight edge” is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational drugs, in reaction to the excesses of punk subculture)
(for some, this extends to refraining from engaging in promiscuous sex, following a vegetarian or vegan diet or not using caffeine or prescription drugs)
(the term straight edge was adopted from the 1981 song “Straight Edge” by the hardcore punk band “Minor Threat”)
(“Ross Haenfler” writes that as of the late 1990s, approximately 3 out of 4 ‘straight edge’ participants were ‘vegetarian’ or ‘vegan’)
(while the commonly expressed aspects of the straight edge subculture have been abstinence from alcohol, nicotine, and illegal drugs, there have been considerable variations on how far to take the interpretations of “abstaining from intoxicants” or “living drug-free”)
(disagreements often arise as to the primary reasons for living “straight edge”)
(‘straight edge’ politics are primarily ‘left-wing’ and ‘revolutionary’ but there have been ‘conservative’ offshoots)
(in 1999, ‘William Tsitsos’ wrote that ‘straight edge’ had gone through 3 eras since its founding in the early 1980s)
(‘bent edge’ began as a counter-movement to straight edge by members of the Washington, D.C. hardcore scene who were frustrated by the rigidity and intolerance in the scene)
(during the ‘youth crew’ era, which started in the mid-1980s, the influence of ‘music’ on the ‘straight edge’ scene was at an all-time high)
(by the early 1990s, militant straight edge was a well-known part of the wider punk scene)
(in the early to mid-1990s, straight edge spread from the ‘United States’ to ‘Northern Europe’, ‘Eastern Europe’, the ‘Middle East’, and ‘South America’)
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*by the beginning of the 2000s, militant ‘straight edge’ punks had largely left the broader ‘straight edge’ culture / movement*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥