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Oh please. If I ever knock this 'emo' lark, it would be because I'm not emotional.
In every instance of hearing the word, it has never been to mean emotional, or emotional openness.
Normally, it's meant as a label for a type of goth, who are less black-wearing.
I may be very emotional, or a right cold fish. Both are completely irrelevant to 'emo' which I've decided to refuse to accept as... as what? A culture, or a style? it certainly does not (as I've said, damn me), designate emotional openness.
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There's no point refusing to accept something as what it is. Emo, with the music and style or without it, is about emotional openness - it's essentially not a culture or a style, it's a state of mind, and a culture has grown up around it, spawned as a variant of US punk.
It doesn't require that you wear black, have your fringe over one eye and your labret piercing to one side of your lip. The only reason I like that stuff is because IMO it looks hot. Sure, that may be the "image" of that particular culture, but that doesn't change anything, emo itself is still just a state of mind.
I owe a lot to emo, it's the reason I came out as bi, and that was all the more acceptable to people since emo had gained popularity. I don't see why it's seen as being so bad when emotional openness is so much easier to live with than anything else.