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caitlyn -> RE: Showing their skivies (8/14/2007 11:41:56 AM)
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250
So Caitlyn, tell us about this "Goth Culture."
They have their own churches and stuff like that?
And is it one of the rules that you have to wear all black and dye your hair black?
I'm sure you can look it up, and get all sorts of information. I can really only tell you about the people I hung out with, which is a pretty small sample group.
Myself, I'm Catholic, so we didn't have an actual church. [;)]
Most girls opt for something like pink hair, although I did the black hair thing for a while. Black fingernails and dark heavy makeup was pretty much a must. The guys seem to opt for black hair, because the pink or blue hair was a bit too strange.
From my experience, Goth culture was mostly about music, attitude, and being a rebel. I got in to it, in a strange way. When I came here, I was a little over-weight, very quiet and lacked confidence. I wasn't very popular, and was largely outcast by the "cool kids." When you make fun of Goths, you kind of put yourself in the category of the kinds of people that make Goths what they are. At one point, I lost some weight and learned how to make myself pretty ... and poof, instant popularity. When grades and class rankings came out, I did pretty well (I'm not overly smart, unlike CuriousLord, but do get very high grades), and was mostly put back in the "not cool" category. I was a cheerleader for football, and that made me popular again, but the moment football season ended, some of my "friends" were not very friendly. It all seemed very shallow to me. I started hanging out with people that accepted me, for me ... even if "me" was a little off-beat.
What you may find, is that many Goths (at least this is my experience) are pretty smart and do well in school. There are certainly those that get bad grades as a form of rebellion, but in general, the Goths that were/are my friends tended to be straight-A students. Lots of Goths, poke smot. [;)] Some do harder stuff, but in general, that's reserved for the "cool kids" and the general druggie losers. Myself, I don't smoke at all ... I just don't like it.
Goths get made fun of a lot. I didn't suffer this all that much, being a somewhat attractive Goth that tends to get along with everyone ... but in my pink hair and black makeup hay day, I guess you could say that I was the sort of chick that you dated (read: wanted to fuck), but never introduced to your parents. Goths tend to like spanking and light BDSM at a younger age than most. Very few High School girls will let a guy spank them ... and most Goth chicks will. Remembering my High School days, most of the "cool girls" were highly skilled at using sex and their sexuality as a weapon. Not so much with Goth chicks. Every Goth girl I ever men, was bisexual, althought I'm told it's actually pretty unusual in the Goth community at large.
Today, my interaction with Goth culture is limited to going to Goth clubs, which are lots of fun. The best dance clubs by far, are the Goth dance clubs, in my opinion. You might not think so, what with worrying about getting your neck bitten and all. [;)] For the club scene, there are metal Goths, and punk Goths ... this mostly having to do with musical preference. I'm not big on metal Goth, because it's hard to dance to. A relatively new phenominon is the classical music Goth. I'm all over this. I love to listen to, and play, classical music.
I hope this helps. [:D][8|]
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