Mirrored TSWP Entry - Tuesday, September 10, 2002

[illusionofjoy]

Fuck those snobby bitches right up their tanned bony arses! As you may recall, group work is required in one of my courses this semester. As you may also recall, I was in a group where it was made pretty clear that the other members did not appreciate my presence. So, I changed groups.

It is really not in my job description to try an impress anybody. It is also not in my job description anywhere that I should conform to the so-called social "norms" just so you can feel more "comfortable" when I am present. Not everybody hails from a perfect little world of flat bellies, fat titties, parallel tan lines, stuck up noses, overplucked eyebrows and obsessions with beer and N'Sync.

I'm so sorry that I'm not a preppy assfucker. At least I still have eyebrows to raise and won't be suffering from malignant melanoma at the age of 27. It's sad that there are males willing to marry and breed with such females. Yet another set of inmates inside that white picket fence living out the suburban nightmare of a life lived vicariously through cable TV and screaming brats in minivans.

Speaking of blemishes upon the face of the nation (to momentarily take the "preppy" point of view), I saw a bunch of darklings walking from the SUNY Potsdam campus towards downtown Potsdam this afternoon. My friend pointed them out to me as we were driving, saying, "look - a bunch of Goths!"

I, of course, looked towards where she indicated to find myself gazing upon four black-clad freshmen. They certainly looked like they weren't having a very good time as they walked. In retrospect, I wonder if they could have done with an Irn-Bru.

European beverage jokes aside, I can never tell if a person is actually Goth or not unless I speak to them. It's attitude, not fashion that gets one into the subculture. My friend, however seems to be running on stereotypes. Dear reader, she attempted to strip me of my Goth card today by saying that I didn't go around moping all the time.

Oh the horror! *staples hand to forehead* I don't go around moping all day! I'm too *gasp* normal! May the merciful hand of death come and take me where I lay!

Seriously folks, I find her statement to be the height of hilarity. Since I haven't worried about my Gothness for a while, I think it's time for a quick check-up, don't you? Let's get out our pencils and play...

The Stereotype Game!!!

Here's how it works, kiddies: I'm going to make ten statements. You score me on a scale of one to ten, depending on how well I match these statements (ten being most closely matching). At the end of the game, all the points are totalled up and - shazaam! You'll have my Goth score! Got it? Good - let's begin!

1. Goths are constantly depressed and mourning for the world in which they exist.
   3 points - hmmmm...I may be more buggered than I originally thought.
2. Goths always wear black.
   9 points - dammit, if I hadn't worn that grey outfit that one time...
3. Goths constantly hang out in cemeteries.
   2 points - I haven't been since my grandmother's funeral...I'm long overdue.
4. Goths write tragically bad poetry about how miserable life is.
   1 point - no, I write tragically bad songs about how miserable life is.
5. Goths all long for death.
   0 points - Jack Kevorkian didn't write these statements, did he?
6. Goths love bands like Marilyn Manson, Deadsy and Slipknot.
   0 points - I have good taste in music, thank you very much.
7. Goths make tacky websites with spooky pictures.
   10 points - no comment.
8. Goths have all sorts of weird piercings and tattoos.
   0 points - I'm so vanilla.
9. Goths dye their hair jet black and make it really big.
   8 points - it's naturally big...I can't really claim responsibility.
10. Goths wear spooky black eyeliner and lipstick and cover their faces in white paint.
    2 points - my eyeliner is spooky? I'm wearing eyeliner?

Okay, now that we've gone through and scored every statement, let's tally up the results. And the total is...

35!

I'm a poseur according to the stereotypes! Whoo-hoo! Umm...I mean, oh woe is me. *sniffle*

Comments

hey, silly....

[poekitty.livejournal.com]

http://www.gothics.org/subculture/ if you go there, and look up what "Goth" people like, i would be goth. and so would all the people with xmas lights strung up in thier rooms. its also says goth people like candles. thougth it was interesting. Did you realize i was joking earlier today? cause i was....