Care to elaborate:
If you're a "young" Goth, what are your opinions of the elder Goths? Do you respect them? Do you look up to their music, art literature & attitude? Do you consider them as your role models?
If you're an old or former Goth, what are your opinions of the today's Goths? Are they worthy of inheriting the Goth legacy?
How do older & today's goths get along?
2007-01-02 13:18:52 · 7 answers · asked by madzack898 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
I am a young goth and i totally respect yesterdays goth, and share interests with them. now who i don't resect are dumbsh!t mall goths who think because the own tripp pants that they're goth when they have NO idea of the culture and history that is "goth"
2007-01-03 19:19:05 · answer #1 · answered by michael, michael! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm 24, and I certainly look up to elder-goths. My husband is quite older than me and has been in the scene since the early 80s, and I always listen to what he has to say about the scene, but I've found him and some of his elder goth buddies to be curmudgeons. They look down on everything new, and go on about how it used to be better. It probably was. Baby-bats annoy me somewhat, and I tend to make fun of (most of) the 18-year-olds at the clubs, but I always remember that I was at that point once. I have goth friends of all ages, from 18 to their 50s. They may not have much in common anymore, but there is some grudging respect on the part of the elder-goths and the baby-bats seem to know their place at the bottom of the social hierarchy and give due respect to elder-goths.
2007-01-04 15:35:16 · answer #2 · answered by Ophelia193 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The response of these younger groups to the older subculture varies. Some, being secure in a separate subcultural identity, express offense at being called "goths" in the first place, while others choose to join the existing subculture on its own terms. Still others have simply ignored its existence, and decided to appropriate the term "goth" themselves, and redefine the idea in their own image. Even within the original subculture, changing trends have added to the complexity of attempting to define precise boundaries.
2007-01-03 00:33:35 · answer #3 · answered by Nuttie Nettie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm older. I was Goth before they had name for it. One day at school, people all of sudden started referring to me as Gothic. Whatever.
Then, I grew up and found better, more interesting ways to spend my time; besides dye my hair purple and shop at second hand stores for clothing that only existed in my imagination. Wait...I moved from Seattle (at the time Pearl Jam was still called Mother Love Bone and you could see them for $5) to Maui and experienced a cultural transition into Beach Babe (I was hot). But, yeah I do have waaay better things to do...it's all part of growing up.
I swore I would never be one of those 20 year olds (I thought 20 was grown up back then) who wore trendy jeans and tennis shoes and didn't care how I looked. Blame it on Maui, that I wear my soul on the inside these days.
I try to goth out my kids, but they don't go for it. One day my son (he's 9) came home from school and said he was going to be goth. I said, "Ye-es!, let's go buy some big black boots and get some chain links to hold your pants up. And we can shop for morbid T-shirts with esoteric sayings and huge flannel shirts." He said, "No mom, I'm just going to wear my tennis shoes and be goth on the inside." Bummer.
I have mixed feelings about today's goth wannabes. I love the style, but if it's mimicked then you've just defeated the whole purpose.
2007-01-02 21:46:18 · answer #4 · answered by limendoz 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I respect and like them, and I pretty much listen to mostly old-school goth/postpunk (The Damned, Bauhaus, Mission UK, Siouxsie, and so on) and enjoy and appreciate art and literature. I do consider them to be role models, they introduced goth as we know it to the world. Without them, most of us would likely be either punks, disco kids, rockers, mods, or (gasp!) hippies. (Just funning, I like hippies.) I'm glad someone - or, rather, a bunch of someones - helped to carve out a respectable niche where we can associate with like minds and explore our interests. So I'm respectful. And what's more, I'm grateful.
Thanks, eldergoths.
2007-01-02 23:55:49 · answer #5 · answered by Strange Design 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The older Goths have sucked too much blood
2007-01-02 21:22:01 · answer #6 · answered by breastfed43 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
they all get along because they are all goths
2007-01-02 21:40:03 · answer #7 · answered by missy 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋