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[apocalypsos]

Dear asshats at work,

Let me help you out.

1.) The very nice kid wearing the black Corona hoodie and the black baggy jeans is NOT GOTH. I repeat, he is NOT GOTH.

2.) Even if he were goth -- which, I will point out again, NOT GOTH -- that does not mean he will shoot everybody at work, set your house on fire, shoot heroin into his eyeballs, skin your cat and/or rape your houseplants.

3.) How clever of you to make snotty comments behind his back in the line for the timecard machine about how, because he is NOT GOTH so totally a goth, this very nice kid does "that drug shit," "that punk shit," and my personal favorite, "that witchcraft shit." By the way, hi. I usually don't work in your department, so you don't know me. But guess what? You might want to shut your cakehole about "that witchcraft shit" in front of the little chick with the pigtails, the blue jeans, and the orange T-shirt before she shows you her pentagram tattoo before punching you in the face, just 'cause. Don't fuck with the little chick at six in the morning, is all I'm saying.

Sincerely,

Me

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Argh, that's still going around?


I think you should show them your powazzz pentagram. They need to fear little girls in bright clothes.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. I spent at least twenty minutes explaining to one woman that if her son starts dressing in black clothes, she is not obligated to break his legs so he won't leave the house unless she thinks everybody else is as narrow-minded as she is, and that dressing like that will not send his grade-point average into the toilet, immediately turn him into a drug addict, or make him ultra-violent within hours.

I did warn her that the really dangerous kids to watch out for were the popular ones and the preps (since they were the ones in my school that were the worst -- they were just really good at covering it up), but she didn't want to listen. *shrugs*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Ahahaha ... see, apart from the whole black thing, goths would rather be seen dead than in BAGGY jeans and a hoody. At least those i know. I mean, the last time fascinated teachers took me aside to ask if I slept in a coffin was decades ago, I really can't believe people even know about goths anymore. Which shows I might have missed the revival *sheepisH+



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[insidian.livejournal.com]

goths would rather be seen dead than in BAGGY jeans and a hoody.

I was under the impression that goths would rather be seen dead, regardless.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Excellent point!

Sadly, most goths are poseurs ;P

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

Speaking as an actual goth I must agree on the poseur front, I hate the image that most people get when they think goth because of all the stupid-ass emo poseurs around these days...

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I keep forgetting that the world is full of stupid. They were like that in my home town for a long, long time. Perils of rural living, I think - anything even remotely outside the defined norm is treated with incredible suspicion.

They did not take kindly to my Victorian Foofy Goth phase. ;)

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

They did not take kindly to my Victorian Foofy Goth phase. ;)

Heh. My mother had a giant cow last year when she discovered that we were sending our daughter to a middle school with a fairly large goth population (read: 2 of 13.) Should have seen the look on her face when I told her that the current goth fad was for...bustle skirts.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain.

I can still vividly remember standing w/a bunch of the other women in the office while one of them made remarks about how "those people" (witches) were "so slimy". I waited a minute, and said quietly, "Rene, do you know what religion I am?"

Her remark? "But you're not like that."

Bingo, dipshit. "My point."

"But you don't LOOK like a witch!"

"I look exactly like a witch." (Subtext: Moron.)

[azurelunatic]

Jesus.

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I smell a tasty, lucrative, idiot-smacking religious discrimination in the workplace lawsuit!

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Whatever happened to teens dressed in black just meaning "angsty"? Or, you know, "acting student"? *shakes head* People these days.

-blue

[cornfields.livejournal.com]

I never realized the stigma attached to wearing black all the time. The majority of my work clothes are black, and have been for years. I do wear color, but those tend to be muted or earth tones. Only recently have I heard stupid comments aimed in my direction. No, I'm no depressed. No, I don't take my fashion cues from Johnny Cash. No, I haven't a clue when the little green men are landing.

Dude. What the hell is wrong with wearing black all the time? It's slimming! :)

[liliaeth]

you know, that was exactly my thought*g*

So just cause I wear black nine times out of ten I'm supposed to be a Goth? Pff, well I do like vampires*g*

[wufeidragon.livejournal.com]

I love your icons. Oh Spike... oh Buffy the Vampire Slayer. *minor freak out moment*

[azurelunatic]

Me, all my good clothes are black because I'm a klutz, and everything else stains.

That, and it looks good on me, and I like it.

The fact that I am a witch is beside the point.

It creates such a sensation at work when I wear any other color, even different-colored stockings.

[pastaqueen.livejournal.com]

I think it's weird Goths get stigmatized like that. Most of the Goths I've met are very docile, sweet, introverted people.

Tattoos

[moshez.livejournal.com]

Off-topic: Why did you get a pentagram tattoo? :)

[lala412.livejournal.com]

My brother used to work at an alternative school (the kind they send the kids to after they're kicked out of all the regular schools, but before juvie). They got a kid who wore all black and make-up and had a pentagram necklace, and a lady my brother worked with started going on and on about the evils of witchcraft and satan-worship and blah blah blah... my brother finally got mad and told her that his sister was a witch and I never did anything like that. Apparently it shut her up. However, he was diappointed when I told him that although I'm very pagan, I'm not very witchly... ah well. He'll get over it. :-)

Witches

[moshez.livejournal.com]

Heh, this reminds me of a point I make to refer to my "Wiccan" friends as "Witches". I mean, I wouldn't mind being referred to as a "Hebrew" rather than a "Jew", would I?
[And yes, I actually have a few wiccan friends and most of them know I don't hold it in wide regard...but at least it's not a baby-killing death worshipping cult like Christianity :)]

[akacat]

I suddenly have this image in my head of Shirley Temple hauling off and popping someone in the face.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

If someone made me fear, rightly or wrongly, that they were going to flip out and shoot people, I would give them candy and compliments, then run away.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

When I was taking a drawing class I figured out why artists always wear black. It's not to be cool, it's because the fucking charcoal gets on everything!
My biggest problem is the people who send the "Jesus loves you" emails. Where are the happy pagan Goddess emails for me to send to them? It's only fair, right?
Luckily my VERY Christian supervisor doesn't have "issues." I don't remember what brought the subject up when I was talking to her, but it was about something Christian and I just said that I wasn't Christian, she said ok, and dropped it. So if I ever get fired and sue the company it will be over the Americans w/Disabilities Act rather than religious discrimination...

[azurelunatic]

Hells yes. Charcoal. And watercolor paints stain. And gouache. And tempera. And oil. And acrylic. And oil pastels. And coffee.

Some people manage to be neat and tidy and never spill a thing on themselves, and charcoal still gets on them. I'm a klutz. Black is so much easier!

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I always like to point out that Johnny Cash wore all-black. Emo!Cash.

I've found that the most dangerous kids in any school tend to be the jocks, especially in a bunch. I remember them egging one another on to some heinous behaviour as they try to out-do one another for stupidity.

[storm-maven.livejournal.com]

Makes me wonder what your co-workers would say about a 37 year old mother of four who doesn't wear all black and able to get along just find with Christians, Jews and all the other religions out there. Oh! I forgot to mention that the 37 year old mother of four considers herself pagan, wears a pentacle and practices witchcraft.

Looks can be deceiving can't they?

[thespatz.livejournal.com]

Hee, short people are the most dangerous. It's certainly true in soccer: some of my favorite people are five foot, petite, and vicious as hell.