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[vicarz]

A pointless point to make: saw South Park last night. Are they reading my LJ posts? Last week they ripped on anti-smoking efforts (I support people's right to smoke but don't want to breathe in their residue while I get drunk on my own poisons, think the tobacco lawsuits were absurd), this week they tore into Hooters (damn funny) and goths. Week before it was the metrosexual when I was busting on Queer Eye. Crab people!

Ok, if goths walked around whining all the time it would be fair to say that anyone that wallows in misery feeling sorry for themselves is pathetic. Pointing out that non-comformists all dress the same is funny, ok. Denny's is lame.

Problem is - I've never associated those black-clad fellas with being miserable. The dark spooky people appreciate everything from crappy poetry to a cathederal, and dress funny. They also laugh a lot, give support, goof off tons, and generally have a good time. If it weren't for the abuse you got for looking that way...but then again the look also gets shock value and identification, so I suppose it's a trade off.

Anyway, is it just me or does the miserable goth stereotype just come from nowhere? Do they think because 'we' wear black we're miserable? Aren't most goths giddy and giggly?

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[grymnir.livejournal.com]

As one of the depressive, perpetually-bitter goth-types, I'll just sneer in the general direction of the perky-goths. After all...their mothers all smelt of elder-berries. There is, indeed, a difference between being goofy and being quirky...it says so in hte alt-goth manual, no, really!

No one is depressed all the time...nor is anyone suicidal all the time; if they were, they'd be dead.

Now- turn of your irony-tone and get back to studying!