YES! Finally someone says what I've been desperate to say. Goths are sad.
Some of my best friends are goths. ;-) Actually I'm practically married to one. He listens to Fields of the Nephilim without flinching or wanting to slit his wrists. I don't mind that since he doesn't wear black and wallow around in states of artsy angst. In my own way, I'm part goth. I own fishnets, Cure albums, had been known to paint my fingernails and bedroom black as a teenager and write appalling poetry. Advancing merrily into my Ageing Hypocrite years I tend to favour bright cheerful colours, try to be friendly and smiley to people I meet and where practicable, use a condom. I find myself a lot less boring this way.
What irks and bores the living shit out of me is the desperate victim mentality of some teenage goths. Most of them are well nourished white kids with parents who don't exactly despise and neglect them judging by the amount of time and money they have on their hands to write poetry (stop, please, in the name of all that is sacred and beautiful about language) and construct sites dedicated to their own Dark Brooding Otherness on the frigging internet.
Angst, self absorption, narcissism, writing dreadful poetry, writing worse prose and painting your bedroom black are all very very normal teenage traits, if my own experience is anything to go by. I suppose this is the worst thing you could tell a teenage goth - "You're perfectly normal."
The ones that worry me are the ones who continue dressing up and writing gloomy poetry and lamenting and celebrating their difference into their thirties - continuing the teenage sulk into adulthood when there are so many other and more important things in the world to get angry and unhappy about. There are grotesque human rights abuses occurring in the world, bigotry, intolerance. Things that would be far more worthy of channelling one's indignation into instead of posting pictures of your new hair colour or your latest angry poem written in the wake of daddy getting upset with you for getting your eyebrow pierced and wearing a black wedding gown and dead flowers in your hair at a family christening. Cheer up, PLEASE. It's not that bad.
You know a meme I really want to see but don't have the technical skill to do? A Random Goth Poetry generator. That would be fun. :-)
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branchandroot
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Date: 2002-11-07 06:37 pm (UTC)Some of my best friends are goths. ;-) Actually I'm practically married to one. He listens to Fields of the Nephilim without flinching or wanting to slit his wrists. I don't mind that since he doesn't wear black and wallow around in states of artsy angst. In my own way, I'm part goth. I own fishnets, Cure albums, had been known to paint my fingernails and bedroom black as a teenager and write appalling poetry. Advancing merrily into my Ageing Hypocrite years I tend to favour bright cheerful colours, try to be friendly and smiley to people I meet and where practicable, use a condom. I find myself a lot less boring this way.
What irks and bores the living shit out of me is the desperate victim mentality of some teenage goths. Most of them are well nourished white kids with parents who don't exactly despise and neglect them judging by the amount of time and money they have on their hands to write poetry (stop, please, in the name of all that is sacred and beautiful about language) and construct sites dedicated to their own Dark Brooding Otherness on the frigging internet.
Angst, self absorption, narcissism, writing dreadful poetry, writing worse prose and painting your bedroom black are all very very normal teenage traits, if my own experience is anything to go by. I suppose this is the worst thing you could tell a teenage goth - "You're perfectly normal."
The ones that worry me are the ones who continue dressing up and writing gloomy poetry and lamenting and celebrating their difference into their thirties - continuing the teenage sulk into adulthood when there are so many other and more important things in the world to get angry and unhappy about. There are grotesque human rights abuses occurring in the world, bigotry, intolerance. Things that would be far more worthy of channelling one's indignation into instead of posting pictures of your new hair colour or your latest angry poem written in the wake of daddy getting upset with you for getting your eyebrow pierced and wearing a black wedding gown and dead flowers in your hair at a family christening. Cheer up, PLEASE. It's not that bad.
You know a meme I really want to see but don't have the technical skill to do? A Random Goth Poetry generator. That would be fun. :-)