I've been into the web for a little while (while for me means a year)
browsing for cool stuffs and such when a picture of a lady in a Victorian
dress captured my attention. That was a year ago, actually. That's when
I first encountered the Goth culture. I don't know why, but was, and
still, fascinated by these people. From then, on, I started reading a
lot about them and the culture itself.
I was chilling over the cold weather last night when my curious mind started to do a crazy brainstorming about random questions and suddenly an idea pop-out of nowhere. I had written once about my experience about being a goth to improve myself in Goth enlightenment: The light side of the dark chasers. I know this is crazy, but I want to know I other feel the same way that I felt when I choose to be one.
I hope there would be someone who landed in my page (aside from those who I sent invitation to answer my freaking idea) by accident and answer my curiosity.
I hope I don't offend any from the culture by my questions. And, if by any chance, you spare a time and post an answer, I will send my gratitude in advance.
I was chilling over the cold weather last night when my curious mind started to do a crazy brainstorming about random questions and suddenly an idea pop-out of nowhere. I had written once about my experience about being a goth to improve myself in Goth enlightenment: The light side of the dark chasers. I know this is crazy, but I want to know I other feel the same way that I felt when I choose to be one.
I hope there would be someone who landed in my page (aside from those who I sent invitation to answer my freaking idea) by accident and answer my curiosity.
- What does Goth culture and being a Goth means to you?
- People mostly believed that the Goth culture is into dark and death, etc. If you have a chance to shout something in their faces about the POSITIVE things that Goth culture had brought to you, what it is and why?
- What positive and good things does the Goth culture had brought to you that change you as a person?
- Why did you choose to be a Goth?
- Does being a Goth is another way of self-expressionism?
- My parents said: "Goths are cool. But, please stop playing funeral songs." Do you agree in the first sentence?
- My sister says: "Goths wears cross. But, they're into dark things and such... Do they believe in God?" Do you?
I hope I don't offend any from the culture by my questions. And, if by any chance, you spare a time and post an answer, I will send my gratitude in advance.
In reverse order because the latter ones are easier to answer than the former!
ReplyDelete7) There's Goths of all religions and none. I've come across Muslim Goths, Christian Goths, Jewish Goths, adamantly Atheist Goths, Pagan Goths, etc. I'm a pantheist Pagan Witch, so I believe in God, but not in the anthropomorphised version of the Abrahamic religions.
6) Not in hot weather! It's boiling wearing all that black :P But "cool" to me means trendy or fashionable, and Goths are outside of trends and fashions - fashions are transient, Goth is a an aesthetic, a style, something more permanent. That aesthetic falls in and out of fashion, and you get things like celebrities such as Jessie J 'doing the Goth thing', but seeing as we are usually a derided bunch, I doubt that curries favour for us amongst the masses.
5)Goth is a form of self-expression, certainly. If you aren't expressing yourself being a Goth, why on Earth would you be one? Why would you listen to music and read books and wear clothes if they don't correspond to your tastes?
4)I actually was a hippie for a bit, and my Dad was a hippie before me, an original hippie from the '60s. I still have a lot of my hippie idealism - especially when it comes to environmental issues and to spirituality - but Goth fulfils something different. I really like the music, I still listen to '60s and '70s psychedelia and folk-rock on occasion and borrow things from my Dad's record collection, but I just like the sound of Goth rock more. I also like Gothic (as opposed to Goth) things - such as graveyards, vampires, old architecture, dead flowers, skulls, etc. which aren't really part of the Hippie subculture. Basically, I prefer the Goth aesthetic, visually and musically, as well as in terms of themes, than Hippie things.
3)I think it's given me the courage to be more myself. I've always been a bit eccentric, but I think before Goth I kept /trying to be/ something, and then when I became Goth, it wasn't something I had to try, it was just something I am.
2) Acceptance. Goths don't care that I'm a Witch, that I'm bisexual, that I like skulls and weaponry and things other people find "creepy", they don't look at me like an alien, or think I'm somehow wrong and bad because I'm different. Other than that, who says that the dark has to be negative? Goth allows people to appreciate the beauty in the darkness, to think skulls are /beautiful/ rather than scary, to say that ruined buildings are /intriguing/ rather than creepy, to say that flowers are still pretty when they've wilted and dried.
1)It's really important to me, it is a large section of my life simply because it is the term that describes my aesthetic tastes and outlook best, and I can't exactly avoid my aesthetic tastes and outlook on life!
We dare not say too much in a small-minded town like Oswestry. The place is a narrow-minded planet of chavs. There is a lot of yobbish culture here in Oswestry. But I did once say a few words to one certain lad. He then started throwing things at our windows etc. It's so sad that we have to put up with these useless layabouts, in great britain. I don't think that britain is very great at all. We have a useless rabble in so-called power now. And they waste our taxes on worthless tripe, like London 2012 olympics. Not everybody wants to have that rammed down their throats day after day. There are people way below the breadline in the uk. Some can't even afford to get a decent meal. Its the rich and wealthy that prosper now.
DeleteAcceptance. Sense of belonging. I can definitely relate myself in that word. Aside from confidence and freedom, I think that's the best thing that being a goth had given me. Thank you so much for your response. It makes me feel overwhelmed. You always write things in a very informative way. Again, thank you so much!
DeleteAcceptance, confidence, freedom - I think those are often the gifts of the subculture. I'm glad you have had a positive effect from it :)
DeleteThat's Ok! One of my primary aims in blogging is to be informative! Yes, I do also blog to showcase a few of my talents, too, but I'm trying my best to move my blog into a more informative direction.
@Cherry Divine, I don't know if you're referring to the Government or to the people in your place, but we can't say that it is the government's or the rich and wealthy people's fault. We can't blame them. We have the same situation in my own country and it is hard to say that it is much worse that what you think. Everyone holds their own faith, it is up to you if you choose to stay on what you are or move on and make yourself productive.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to answer this on my blog, if that's okay. :3
ReplyDeletesure you may :)
DeleteI've answered them on my blog. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!
ReplyDeleteI answered your questions on my blog!
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