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It's a friendship. They stand up for us - we stand up for them. And most of all, they have taught us to stand up for ourselves. So stand up fucking tall, support us and fight the good fight.
"Are MCR dangerous? They wear black, their music is dark. Worried parents and overjealous journalists see My Chemical Romance as a danger. They accuse the band of writing songs that encourage their fans to commit suicide. Frontman Gerard Way retaliates: 'People who claim this haven't got anything. We want that people decide to live.' "

Stereotyping My Chemical Romance as a band that promotes self-harm/suicide is incredibly offensive to us and them. It's lazy on the part of the critics who chose to join the "emo-scare" reporting craze without doing adequate research, and it's shameful of the parents who chose a scapegoat instead of trying to understand their kids. Self-mutilation is done as a physical release of overwhelming emotional pain, and no-one self-harms because a group of strangers tell them to. That's something all people need to know and respect.

Music doesn't make teens suicidal, but it does provide a crutch for those who are. My Chemical Romance's music gives teens something to relate to, and the support of five normal people who know exactly what they're going through. My Chemical Romance have found a way to make life meaningful for others; their music makes kids feel like they have purpose, somewhere to belong - a reason to live. And we do. We have a right to be in this world, and we have a right to defend the things that have helped keep us here. We have the right to stand up for the things that mean a lot to us. We have the right to stand up for our rights. We have the right to dye our hair black without hearing from others that we're emo. We have the right to listen to My Chemical Romance without everyone thinking we slit our wrists. We have the right to let a band effect our lives without other people considering it a cliche. These are our rights. Rights that everyone should have without having to fight for them.

Every day we are exposed to media that displays stunnig and flawless people, considers only those who are sociable to be healthy, and approves of individuality as long as our self-expression is 'well-adjusted' and 'normal'. This is the media and their limited acceptance that shapes the opinions of todays society, and because of it, society just doesn't accept those people who won't fit the mold. My Chemical Romance encourage us to just be ourselves, but the media takes our differences and makes us a target because of them.

Media is raising an generation that can watch movies with violence and killing in them and download as much porn on their computer as they want to, but have to be "rescued" by censoring words like "gun" and "shirt" from music videos. Media is producing movies and tv-shows with raw violence in them, making kids believe that if anything bad happens, they'll get it sorted by stealing a gun and taking away someone else's life, or their own. It's producing porn that creates pressure on kids that already find it hard to fit in 'cause they aren't skinny enough. Magazines with superskinny models in them, magazines that have made society so wrong with the picture of being pretty and beautiful. Kids with freckles, glasses, braces and those sort of things want to get rid of them because of those pictures in the magazines. Rid of the things that personality is about.

Kids judge each other by the way that they look like. If you are not Ana Carolina Reston, you are fat. If you don't have the perfect face like Kelly Clarkson, you're ugly. If you don't have the breasts of Pamela Anderson, you're a boy. Naturality is a rare quality. We only want to be ourselves. Listen to the music we like and dress the way we want to. Are these our crimes? Crimes that we actually have to get punished for? Media is trying to crush and ruin our identity and blame us for trying to be something else. For what? Music and genuine bands like My Chemical Romance are the only breathingslot for for many people, media is trying to convince parents about those bands being a bad thing and we're not going to just sit back and watch that happen.

Instead of fighting against emo and the bands you think are related to it, how about having a little faith with the new generation? "Emo" is something media has ruined, and it's the media that's killing the new generation. There will be a time when when you aren't here anymore, there is only the generation that are now labeled as emos. Have faith in those kids, because right now the bands that you try to destroy, are the only ones that do.

My Chemical Romance has always cared for their fans and wanted to change the world - make it a better place. They are against violence, against self-mutilation, against suicide, against cutting, against homophoby, against war, against all these things that the growing generation is afraid of. We might not be want you want us to be, but that's okay. We are what we want to be.

This organization is us standing up for the fact that we're okay. We don't want to fight, this project is just our side of the story, that we leave out for interpretation. So stand up for your right to simply be who you are; the right to listen to whatever music you want andd dress the way you want. Stand up for the band that gave so many people the strenght to live when they no more knew how. Stand up for the band that has and will always stand up for you when no one else will.

The more media says My Chemical Romance is bad,
the more we prove media wrong.




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