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Goth

REAL GOTHS ...Are victims of streotypical assumptions Do not worship Satan Are not depressed Are quite happy Can have friends Don't always listen to Gothic music Dress how they want to dress, not always in black Don't sit around complaining about not having friends, they don't want friends, a real Goth is happy being a social misfit Often don't want to be referred to as a Goth POSER GOTHS (Sometimes known as emo) Will call themselves goth, note they don't use a capital letter to start the word Pretend to worship Satan, although its rare that they actually believe in Him Will act depressed all the time, no matter what he/she is really feeling Will dress in clothes purely from Hot Topic, Planet 13, Starsnstripes and places like that One Band Wonders, think that they're so Goth coz they listen to a band that is sometimes labelled as Gothic, such as Slipknot, where as in actual fact Slipknot are nu/death metal Dress only in black, pure attention seekers

Poser Goth: You're such a poser. You think you're so goth, but you don't even listen to Slipknot! Goth: ....okay..like I would care what you think Poser Goth: You make me sick! You're not even wearing black! And you call yourself a goth! Goth: I never called myself a Goth, that was a label invented by people like you, real people don't need labels

By nymphetamine

Goth

Someone who likes the darker side of things. They usually listen to death metal and goth music, such as Dismember and Bauhaus. Marilyn Manson is NOT goth. He's just...weird. Real goths are not depressing and suicidal like the posers you see at Hot Topic. Goths are fun to be around and aren't afraid to laugh at themselves every so often. They don't worship Satan and aren't evil despite what some ignorant people might say. Goths don't all dress alike either. They like to create their own unique style. Goths are also very intelligent and creative. A lot of them are writers and artists. Goths DON'T envy the popular people. They are what they are because it makes them happy. Goths would rather stay who they are and be among the so called "freaks" than be like everyone else and be popular. They understand that there are more important things in life than popularity, and usually succeed in life while the popular ones don't become much of anything. If someone becomes "goth" because they couldn't get any friends or are depressed and angry all the time, they are most likely a poser.

By Me

goth

A word that has so many definitions no-one really knows what the fuck it means now.

"Wow, are you a goth?" "Man I don't know..."

By ketter

Goth

The goth, that thing that lies at the opposite end of the spectrum of society to the chav. A goth [will] walk alone where a chav [will] hide inside his herd and though the goth may take a beating at least that goth was never a coward. A goth [will] insult only those who have earnt it whereas a chav [will] insult people for things as shallow as the clothes they are wearing. A goths insult [will] be witty and cutting, a chavs insult more often than not [will] consist of the chav making a repulsive noise. A goth [will] enrich their mind, a chav [will] watch soaps. In the morning, a goth [will] ask themselves “what do I want to wear?” whilst a chav [will] ask themselves “what in this selection of clothes is the most acceptable thing to wear?” A goth [will] have a friend because they are good for someone, a chav [will] have a friend because that someone is good for them. A goth approaches new situations with a willingness to think and find the best way forward, a chav [will] react with aggression to that which it does not already know. A goth [will] listen to music that is meaningful to their life and thought provoking, a chav [will] listen to music which will tell him how to behave. Goths have no interest in popularity whatsoever. They think outside the box. People aspire to be popular and dress in certain ways that are ‘in’ with everyone else simply because it has never occurred to them how pointless societies values really are. In truth, there was never any point to any one of us being born. We’re doomed to struggle onwards in our skins, attached to life only by mechanisms put in our minds by evolution never to find any relief and never to find any meaning. We’re just all stuck with it now, together (and yuk to the simply stunning amount of ignorance I have to put up with). Conformity assumes that what another has thought of is better than what you can think of on your own but why is one mind better than another? (the conformist who argues that their own opinion is truth is a hipocrite, a really ridiculous laughable hipocrite) Its not is the truth. I am a goth and I aspire to value my own intuitions as much as I would value anyone elses (as much, not more you fools!) therefore I don’t care if you don’t like me because I DO. I look strikingly different to everybody else, you chavwits think I am attention seeking when in fact I look different because of my total lack of interest in you lot, you lot and that vile sort of dress code that is ‘the norm’. Its not that I want you to notice me, its just that I haven’t bothered to noticed you! I do as I please! But then again, so say the chavs. The difference in effect is that I have a brain. I realise that randomness of behaviour (as in anarchy) is a force of pure destruction without the input of thought. I know what I want for myself, plenty of cash, love, freedom, peace and I know that that’s pretty much what everybody else wants too. Therefore, I treat others as I wish to be treated myself. I would never stand in the way of anothers achievement because if I did how would I deserve to achieve anything of my own? Goths, in my experience (others as well as myself) are thoughtful, intelligent, hard working, kind, honest, well mannered. I have an education and I like when it shows! As a goth, all you various ‘rude’ forms of life make me sick. Goth is what the individuals do- and as for the idea of the wannabe goth these either revert to conformity or evolve.(I mean slipknot/korn fans, as for manson fans I think those who say he isn’t gothic just don’t know enough about him- sure listening to manson WILL NOT make you gothic, but give that poor dark philisophical soul some credit! He’s certainly not gonna un-goth you!) Wannabes are a transitional category but if they are to be acknowledged at all, they are not goths. Goths make the greatest friends. Goths have the unusual ideas. Goths just don’t suffer from the same afflictions of ‘normality’ as you self-mirroring lot- change for once. down with mediocrity.

[try] the question why are we here? it might get you thinking [try] focusing on the meaning of things rather than your pre-held assumptions about [everything]

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goth

Initially a musical genre that emerged in the late 70s post punk era, Goth evolved into a full-blown sub culture a few years later with the evolution of Gothic fashion and imagery. A movement with a seemingly infinite ability to re-invent itself Goth has survived over 2 decades and has continued to evolve and grow in this time. However this propensity to re-invent itself has lead to a form of “identity crisis of Goth” in which even its most fervent adherents can no longer agree on a definitive answer to the question “What is Goth”. In recent years the music industry has applied the term “Goth” rather broadly to various musical styles, which they seem unable to categorise, resulting in some confusion between various genres and the fans thereof. Unlike many of the subcultures than went before Goth does not seek to rebel against society, highlight its flaws (as was the case with the punks of the 70s) or define itself in terms of opposition to other sub cultural groupings (as was the case with the mods and the rockers of the 60s). As press interest in the genre continues, other sections of society have begun to define normality as “that which is opposed to Goth,” a common mainstream reaction faced by all subcultures at one time or another.

Goth music originated in the late 70s and has evolved and reinvented itself many times since

By Bryan