I don't know that I would not classify Goth with Emo personally. Just like I wouldn't put hippies and punks in the same group despite the close timeframe they occupy... Both my sister and I as well as many of our friends would classify as "goth". She had her reasons and I had mine. Personally I don't have a tolerence for the whining, self mutilating, insuferable personality traits that encompass part of the culture. My sister has that end handled. My interest in the culture was self expression. I liked to challenge the steroetypes of "normal, beauty, propriety". I never self loathed in a way that I EVER thought about cutting or anything so masochistic! Not only did I find how other people experience prejudice based on what they saw in my appearance, but I found how I myself was prejudiced against "preps", and those who LOOKED like the cheerleader/jock type or the "thug" type. To drudge up an old addage, "you can't judge a book by it's cover." this is SOO true, in so many ways!! I fiind human nature intersting in the way that it percieves and accepts or doesn't accept the "different" and how it defines "different" altogether. Perception is not static, things are everchanging. Most of my friends are "conventional" insofar as no one would partition them out to a normal class of regular folk. They are the boy/girl next door. Some of them are "normal" and some of them are "weird". On the flip side, the goth and alternative identified friends that I have are "different". But not in a way that makes them non-contributing members of society...they are still valid human beings that conform to the tenet of "normal", i.e.; education, job, marriage, house, family, tax paying, voting, socially concious.... Clothing is not an accurate way to judge character.
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