Goth-what is your concept of it?

[Anastasia13]

What is your concept of goth?

(Remember that English concept paper I was posting about...?)

Edited October 28, 2005 by Light and Truth

[cmotherofpirl]

Kids dressed all in black enjoying the stares and thinking they are unique.

[onathing1]

alot of the time goths are either kids who are emotionally disturbed/upset or kids who just dress up to be 'different'.

[toledo_jesus]

I think of the goth kids on South Park.

conformist.

[zabbazooey]

[quote name='toledo_jesus' date='Oct 28 2005, 11:22 AM']I think of the goth kids on South Park.

conformist.
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Yeah I think of teenagers who dress in all black or clothes from Hot Topic and think that they are the ones who are non conformists.

[Era Might]

Creepy.

[theculturewarrior]

I think of the goths as an axe-wielding barbarian tribe from which the English language takes its roots. But I'm a history major. Maybe that's weird.

[Aloysius]

lol tcw, exactly what I was gonna say but you beat me to it.

[StColette]

Flying buttress, tall towers, and projecting pavilions

[Socrates]

[quote name='theculturewarrior' date='Oct 28 2005, 03:57 PM']I think of the goths as an axe-wielding barbarian tribe from which the English language takes its roots. But I'm a history major. Maybe that's weird.
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The English language comes from the Anglo-Saxons, not the Goths!
The Visigoths mostly wound up in Spain, and I forget where the Ostrogoths went. (I need to review my history!)

[Socrates]

It's funny how the language works.
What originally was the name of a 4th Century Germanic barbarian tribe came to refer to a 12th Century style of architecture (by derisive 18th Century "classicists" who regarded it as "barbaric" or "gothic").
The word then came to refer to a 19th century style of literature (creepy tales often set in Gothic buildings), which then came to refer to a bunch of stupid kids trying to shock their elders and peers by dressing up halloween year round and pretending to be vampires.

Edited October 29, 2005 by Socrates

[Dreamweaver]

Hehe, a general stereotype I think of is kids dressing in black, listening to spooky music, oftentimes they have some mental disorders.

As an aside, here's a interesting Livejournal community for [url="http://www.livejournal.com/community/catholic_goths/"]Catholic Goths[/url].

I'm not knocking goths at all, hell, I may even be bit of a "closet goth" myself.

[Anastasia13]

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Note for younger readers: contains slightly crude joke.

[quote name='Dreamweaver' date='Oct 28 2005, 07:26 PM']I'm not knocking goths at all, hell, I may even be bit of a "closet goth" myself. 
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I probably am too.

[Fixxxer]

Emo: An abbreviation for loser. Emo is the new goth, except goths are still around, so it's becoming almost unbearable.

[Anastasia13]

[quote name='Fixxxer' date='Oct 28 2005, 09:01 PM']Emo: An abbreviation for loser. Emo is the new goth, except goths are still around, so it's becoming almost unbearable.
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So your concept of goths is that they are losers? Is what way?