come on vicar... think about it - even if it is south park it's still tv - they stereotype and often play to the lowest common denominator... and you know how stereotyping works - if someone thinks all goths are depressed then they are going to meet/find a bunch of depressed people and ignore the rest of the scene
also, i suspect that given that the show is done in la, if the writers did any actual meeting of real goths they may have found that many of them fit the stereotype - our scene in dc is surprisingly diverse and has a much smaller quantity of mopey/miserable goths than many other scenes, in part i think because the goths have always been part of a much larger scene of freaks which includes punk, industrial, and other types as well - mopey goths are definately out there (even in dc) but in communities such as la la land where there is no freak community but rather a bunch of smaller, more insular communities they are a much larger percentage of the crowd at any given goth club... convergence last spring really drove this home for me - we have friends out in la and they introduced us to a bunch of la goths - many of them were decent people, but damn do they have no clue what a freak is or that such a community is possible and the closed group they presented made little to no sense to me (nor do my friends who've been transplanted there understand it)
hope that makes sense - brain not quite firing on all cylinders today
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Date: 2003-12-11 03:29 pm (UTC)also, i suspect that given that the show is done in la, if the writers did any actual meeting of real goths they may have found that many of them fit the stereotype - our scene in dc is surprisingly diverse and has a much smaller quantity of mopey/miserable goths than many other scenes, in part i think because the goths have always been part of a much larger scene of freaks which includes punk, industrial, and other types as well - mopey goths are definately out there (even in dc) but in communities such as la la land where there is no freak community but rather a bunch of smaller, more insular communities they are a much larger percentage of the crowd at any given goth club... convergence last spring really drove this home for me - we have friends out in la and they introduced us to a bunch of la goths - many of them were decent people, but damn do they have no clue what a freak is or that such a community is possible and the closed group they presented made little to no sense to me (nor do my friends who've been transplanted there understand it)
hope that makes sense - brain not quite firing on all cylinders today