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- From: cairnss@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Ghost with the Most=)
- Subject: Re: sigh, oh sigh; findi..."gothics real"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.105449.16059@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <92321.105612MXR133@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Nov17.043913.25712@Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:54:49 GMT
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- mlc9g@Virginia.EDU ("Matt Condon") writes:
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- >min215ii writes:
- >> RE: Gothic clothing
- >>
- >All I was stating was that too many people are getting far too
- >uptight because a few people who are not otherwise into goth
- >are wearing clothes like they are. Actually, I haven't seen
-
- >brainwashed masses will quickly find something else to make
- >into a fad and goth will be just as unpopular with the general
-
- >goth clothing is being sold in malls now, who cares? If you're
- >really goth, you know who you are, and no one else should be
- >associated with such pettiness, I'm not sure I want anything to
- >do with it anymore. At that point, it becomes nothing more
- >than another trend.
-
- The first fallacy here is in saying that ANYone is REALly "goth".
- The Second is where you say that gothic is not a style or TREND.
-
- IT is. That is why you do it. That is why anyone would do it.
- There are no individuals, not in the sense of 'anarchistic' jargon
- where everyone is doing everything for themself only. People are
- ruled by other people, no matter how much you attempt to fool yourself.
- You will always fix yourself for others approval. That is the way
- social animals work, and we are.
- Gothic is a style no matter what definition you give it. I do
- not like to call things TRENDs but that too fits in this case.
-
- Bluntly, I know entirly too many people who run around saying I am
- "Goth" and yOu are not! For whatever reason, they go "I have been a
- Goth since I was six" , or "I saw you wear color two days ago!" I have found
- that the people who do this are the ones with no confidence, no real personality
- all they have is the trend to give them 'fashion' and 'friends'. Give it up
- last time I had to deal with people trying to tell me how to be real was
- High School.
- This is not
- the way the world works for me. I will wear whatever I damn well please.
- I will not get offended if someone else imitates the way I dress. I
- will wear clothes that are appealing to other people as well as myself.
-
- The rest is my personality and you certainly can't ever touch that.
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- Yours truely and sincerely, and with loving grace of the our dark lord,
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