CAN YOU STILL BE A GOTH IF....

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I never equated being goth with inflicting pain. That is more masochism or is that sado masochism.
I would never enjoy inflicting pain on anyone.
However, I used to dress all in black, I wear a lot of goth style dresses, I love gothic music like Nightwish and Within Temptation and I love darker things and graveyards.

28, you?

I'm afraid i don't wear glasses....

Goths like death metal now?

You can also be a Goth if you like to invade, sack, and pillage.

Gothic cavalry was amazing.

Yeah, so get a horse, and some combat gear rosered and you are well on your way.

I have a question though as this is something I'm curious about. What is the difference between a Goth and an Emo? When I was in school they were Goths, but I didn't hear the term Emo until more recently and they seem to be alot like the Goth kids were. What is the difference?

yea before Deus_ex_machina turns up and starts killing i should warn you dm isnt very goth

Wikipedia is usually good for cultural stuff Arbie, (i may be wrong) but i understand that goth has gone to a sort of Victorian era style ... whereas emos tend to have no sense of style

hmm, defining gothic as a style is a difficult thing to do. for one, the "original" movement that stemmed from new wave diversified into a lot of branches (or branchlets - or points on a fluid spectrum, actually), and then, a lot of other movements are usually listed under goth as well. metalheads with a primary focus on gothic metal could even be called gothics and still like death metal, although death metal doesnt have too many points of connection with gothic.

the middle ages scene, industrial, neofolk, martial music/military pop, a part of the fetish scene... they all dont really have a common source with "classic" new-wave rooted gothic, yet they usually are seen as belonging to the gothic scene.
it doesnt help either that there are divisions into primarily musical branches and primarily stylistical branches that dont necessarily need to have connections. its all very diverse... and while there are discussions all the time what is true and what is not, no one needs to really care.

i, for example, like to listen to death metal every once in a while (but prefer power electronics for destressing), inflicting pain doesnt do anything for me (i wouldnt want to hurt people that i care for, and i dont mind other people enough to want to hurt them), i dont dress in black exclusively and i left cutting behind and am interested in bladed stuff more from a technical/aesthetical point of view -it became more of an aspie thing, actually- but i guess i somehow fit the goth label (at least i go to goth clubs).

That's sounds good to me.....



LOL

I'm kinda goth-ish. I have red hair and tattoos and I'm pale. I used to wear black but now I wear green almost exclusively (except I always wear purple shoes)

I like death metal, I wear black every day, I looked like a corpse only once, I have a thing for sharp knives and I consider myself a goth. I don't like to inflict pain on any creature on earth, I have no tattoos and I still think I'm a goth.

I don't think you can be a Goth if you don't like death metal and don't wear black eyeliner.

And rape. Don't forget rape!

AAHHH!


I don't want any part of that!

Just the invade,sack and pillage.....