Disappointed

I go to sxe.com and I start reading the front page. This guy is like if you dont like hard core you're not straight edge, if you stopped being straight edge for a time then you are not now straight edge...

I then go into the site's forum and read this one thread. One guy starts out questioning how all these 'hard core' and 'straight edge' members haven't even heard of minor threat (good fucking question). He suggests, rather strongly, that they all ought to drop the whole 'straight edge for life' line.

I read on and these people who respond don't even know who minor threat is, claim they didn't start the whole straight edge thing. I quote- "Who is this mysterious minor threat you speak of?", "just wanted you to know: they didn't invent straight edge". Idiots.

Ian McKay first coined the term 'straight edge'. It was the name of one of their songs and was almost the name of their band. The term means to have an edge in life because you're straight, as in sober.

Identifying yourself with a group of people like that without knowing the history is just plain stupid. What if they were some kinda cult, keeping their members poison free to be eaten later on by The Leader or someone? Its stupid shit like this that turned me off identifying with edgers before.