What is Goth?

[Attrox]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Encryptic
Ask a real goth instead of buying into the stupid stereotypes everyone's pulling out. My wife was in the goth scene for 15 years before I met her. Basically, yes they do dress in black a lot and wear velvet and corsets and listen to stuff like Sisters of Mercy and Bauhaus, among other things.

Most of them have ordinary everyday lives and just do the goth thing at night and the weekends. My wife used to talk about goths she knew that had perfectly normal everyday lives, like a friend she had who was a neurosurgeon during the day and goth at night.

:camera:'s?😀

Just look for a pic of your typical superhero with a secret identity.
"Neurosurgeon by day and goth at night", that sounds like a superhero to me 😀

 

[anno]

Originally posted by: Encryptic
Ask a real goth instead of buying into the stupid stereotypes everyone's pulling out.

so.. how does one identify a "real" goth, in order to ask him or her?

The noun "goth" has 2 senses in WordNet.

1. peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike -- (a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement)
2. Goth -- (one of the Teutonic people who invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries)
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

by definition the real ones look to be unpleasant and/or long dead.

 

[jagec]

There is no set definition for "goth". Ask any two "real" goths, and they will give you two different definitions. It's a vague term, the stereotypes are as good a definition as any.