Being misunderstood
Goths who complain that they get picked on.

That's the entire point of slapping on the black makeup and squeezing into a fucking stupid rubber dress (boys) or fucking stupid torn fishnets (girls). You're only doing it in a pathetic middle class attempt to shock mummy and daddy before your gap year. You want us all to notice you - so don't sodding well complain when we do.

Round up the gits and give them compulsory work experience in mortuary and A&E's of a Friday night and see if they think death and blood is so cool then.
(ubergeekian, Fri 2 May 2008, 11:03, 9 replies)

Individuals
And another thing, they all do it to be different...by dressing identically.

Remember you are an inidvidual and unique. Just like everyone else.
(Neostenine's maker, Fri 2 May 2008, 11:06, closed)

Speaking as an ex old-school Goth
i.e. in the 80s, I dressed like that because I liked the music and the style, rather than because I wanted to be noticed. It didn't really occur to me.

But yes, some of my contemporaries did it to shock, especially in a small market town where the general population were quite conservative in their views.

I still have big, flappy coat tendencies to this day. I never wore a rubber dress though.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 2 May 2008, 11:13, closed)

I was a 90's goth
I liked the look and much of the music, made some friends who liked it too and had a lovely time.
As for shocking my parents, I used to borrow my mum's eyeliner and she took me to get my first peircings (compromise: if she can come and check it's a 'clean place', she'll pay for it. Win.)
I'm pretty sure it's ok for anyone getting picked on to complain, ot be honest.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 2 May 2008, 11:40, closed)

I didn't have an obsession with death or blood either
Unlike, say, today's games console generation...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 2 May 2008, 11:41, closed)

I don’t see why everybody has to be labelled -
This is why we the UK is witnessing lots of hate crimes at the moment.

I’m a `normal’ looking lass (in the sense that I don’t wear the white coloured make-up/red lipstick you are referring to and not that they’d be anything wrong with it if I did!) and I wear rubber/latex clothes most weekends when I go out. I don’t do it to be picked on or to stand out or to make a big statement but because it’s what I like to wear and it has fuck all to do with anybody else.
( DUMBLONDE is a rubber lover girl, Fri 2 May 2008, 11:43, closed)

Bollocks.
When I was a goth I did it because I liked being a goth.

It's got nothing to do with death and blood. Where did you get that from?


^^ Although, as above, I don't see why people have to label each other and themselves. Just dress how you want and do what you want, so long as you're not hurting anyone else.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Fri 2 May 2008, 12:00, closed)

Yeah those fucking goths
I can't believe the family of Sophie Lancaster and Robert Maltby had the audacity to complain about their kids getting picked on when they were clearly just dressing that way to get the attention. What a pair of cunts they must have been. They clearly got what was coming to them. But on the plus side, they did get to see both A&E and a mortuary and that Sophie won't be dressing like that again will she, so clearly your plan works.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 2 May 2008, 13:26, closed)

Oh, hush.
I'm marrying a Goth boy. He's almost forty, very well employed, and one of the sweetest people I've ever met. He's also covered with tattoos and piercings. He started dressing Goth in the eighties and kept on with it, not because he liked "blood and death", but because the aesthetic appealed to him. Do you prefer loafers over trainers? That would be an aesthetic choice. Few would castigate you for that choice. Why be upset because someone might have slightly more extreme choices?
(herbivorous, Sat 3 May 2008, 5:36, closed)