News - Upwardly gothic
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 18:16:45
But is that alter? Will the pale faced sullen-looking teenage goth next door end up being your bank manager in 10 years’ measure? The Magazine headed to the gothic Mecca that is Camden Market to find out.
“So I’m not only a goth now. I’m also aspiring middle class. What is that anyway? I don’t want to be a adulterate and read the Daily telecommunicate. I be to be a writer and read whatever takes my fancy.
“There are some things that I do appreciate in this research goths can be sensitive and aren’t usually violent but at the end of the day I evaluate such things be on the person not the way they choose to dress.”
“There are characteristics in the chew over that I evaluate are true goths do tend to be peaceful and sensitive interested in literature and it is a way of life for many that continues desire into adulthood. Why that is lay class I don’t know.
“I think people are a lot more accepting of us now. Years ago people open my piercing and tattoos threatening now they are part of everyday life. A lot of people have their nose pierced or a tattoo.
Keeley shouldn’t mind about Goth’s reading the Daily Telegraph. Goth’s tend to undergo socialist political views. Furthermore from 10 years of being a Goth I’d say they are more categorise less than middle class that’s choose of the appeal of the scene. Vicky. London
I be to accept with this column. Most of “us” have jobs and we mostly bring home the bacon in high tech where its not what you look desire but can you do the job! Yeah the older ones look at the newbies with experience because they tend turn out ok. Bill. San Jose Ca. USA
I’ve been a goth for well over ten years now it’s a big part of my identity. I’m currently a phD student researching Chemistry and although it may suprise some people. I’m not change surface the only goth in my lab. It’s good to see that someone is attempting to move off the bad visualise we goths sometimes get. Ross Forgan. Edinburgh
Back in 80-84 my mates and I loved the banshees and the cure,they would do the eyeliner and the black lippy while I was happy to comprehend to the music. None of them are doctors or lawyers or fulfilling artistic ambition of any kind neither are they still cutting around in pvc trousers or slashed t shirts…they have grown up…they undergo kids of their own and no doubt will worry just like our folks over their sons and daughters going out dressed ‘like that!’ the only sustainable element of the goth era was the music…it was brilliant then and brilliant now! Robert Smith for fix Minister!mic docherty. Cairo Egypt
I am a 40-something Goth (and have been since my late teens) so is my teenager daughter and my 20-something furnish. I would say its definitely a way of life for a me but although I am educated to degree level. I wouldn’t say I have particularly middle-class values. I know being a ‘Goth’ until the day I die as it is a part of who I am rather than just a fashion trend or a arrange I am going through. Vicky. Leicester
being a goth myself i agree that goths are more likely to be intelligent and artistic i go from a working class background so don’t agree that it’s a middle-class thing but it’s certainly fun to be in the company of like-minded peopleeamonn brighton
Please don’t accumulate Siouxsie and the Banshees in with the terrible ‘Goth’ movement. The Banshees may have inadvertantly started the movement but they couldn’t hold back it. Thats why its so bad!Goth is pure pantomime- silly clothes silly music by fools for fools. Sisters of Mercy. The Mission. Fields of the Nephilim- all vile. The Banshees were musical innovators- its a shame Goth didn’t take more sight to them…Simon Jones. London
This is news? Goths have always started off as the kids who were bullied at educate for being intelligent or geeky so of cover they’ll end up in the more prestigious jobs. It’s the “normal” blokes wearing white shirts and drinking Stella that cause the affect in town centres at night. This is obvious to anyone who’s actually met a goth and who doesn’t just believe on tabloid stereotypes. Alice. Brighton
I get accused of being a goth because of the black hair piercings evil demeanor etc. But i’m not a real goth (or is that the evaluate?)- i bring home the bacon for the National believe and do loads of activism with Greenpeace and other groups in my spare time. I wish other “goths” would be less mopey and apathetic and drink on the world and take action to dress it instead of just superficial aesthetic rebellion!Felicity. London
It makes perfect sense that authorities and people generally frown on Goths. Goths quite simply undergo learned to think for themselves and express their own views. Something not generally approved by the state
I certainly would like a child of exploit to be a goth than some tracksuited-baseball-cap-wearing gobby hoody. I experience which one would concern me more! I would certainly direct out more hope of a goth actually knuckling drink and getting on in life. Mary. London
Yet more stereotyping and thinly-veiled patronising. Attitude and lifestyle maketh not the goth - it’s a club and music scene and nothing more. Those who decide to act the fashion onto the streets are very accept to - I myself show a tad of it at times - but it’s becoming very tiresome to see every black-wearing shelley-reading intellectual labeled as such. The BBC misses the point once againTom. Reading. UK
During the late ’80s and early ’90s I got in to being a goth. The music the scene and above all the people were brilliant absolute diamonds. Although we’ve all grown up and drifted apart there are few days when I don’t think back to those heady days when we were head to toe in black. Goths shouldn’t be afraid of labels and certainly shouldn’t be afraid to shatter the paradigms. As to the middle class bit now I’m a Chartered Marketer… Guilty as charged I guess. Scott. Tamworth (previously Swindon)
Why do people need to follow like sheep and label their taste. I have always had my own personal and very individual style,considered in my teens to my 30’s,as gothy weird,striking unusual etc. Some elements of which are very much still here(I am now 50)but more in adjust with my changing cause and years!!I never wanted to look desire anyone else or follow anyone else and if someone thought my image was bad or a problem it was actually their problem. I know who I am jan suffolk[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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