I have a report due, and I need to know people's opinions on 'Emos' and 'Goths'.?

Question

It's for my cultural studies class. We're writing an essay on stereyotyping.

Answer 1

Emos are strange... goths.. are even stranger...

Answer 2

I think Goths are far more interesting than Emo's... Goths are into non-conformity, and exploring ideas, even (or especially) taboo ideas. You can have a thought provoking conversation with a Gothic person.

Emo's on the other hand are just obsessed with being depressed. They are whiners that usually have grown up in comfortable middle class homes, and want something to be sad about. Most of them are very young, and very immature, and they just want the attention from being so dramatic.

I don't like Emo's, but I would converse with a Goth.

Answer 3

I think the Emos are starved for attention
and by doing the "poor sad me" routine
gets them lots of attention,
Bad attention is better than No attention.
Now the Goths on the other hand do not care,
if they have your attention or not.
They are just out there trying to
connect with others who are into
the Gothic Movement.
It is almost their goal to create this
Goth movement for future
generations to marvel and
talk about.
I personally like the Goth movement.
I always liked the dark and undertones
of life and death, I don't care if they
all look like they just stepped out of a
1930s vampire flick.
I'm one of the survivors of that hippie generation
back in the 60s, that may be why I am
so open with the movement that
the Goths are trying to inspire.

Answer 4

I have had friends in the past who were "punks" kind of the precursor to goths and emos I suppose. I always thought it was funny how their entire point of dressing the way they dd was to be non-conformist, yet they all dressed alike! I think the whole thing is a result of kids wanting badly to have a strong identity and a sense of belonging to a social group. I would hardly limit this to just these groups though. I think this is true of all kinds of different social sub-cultures to varying degrees. And in a way it kind of gives a bit of insight into the social psychology of a high school age student.

Answer 5

Goths have been around since the 80's...Emos are just the newer expression/twist without being a rip off.
There are those in society that to not want to be like the "same steam" and will do what is necessary to be different...sometimes its extreme...here you get "emo". The next generation/extreme of goth... they are just a little more extreme in a movement to express themselves over what goth used to be.

Answer 6

we are all human. i've got been Gothic for type of seven or 8 years now, on a similar time as spending one 3 hundred and sixty 5 days dealing with a factor of being emo because of the fact i improve into having complication looking and understanding who i'm. So i've got been on the two factors of the fence. even even with the undeniable fact that I did bypass by the emo section, I nevertheless am no longer particularly prepared on it. quite often because of the fact there are various quite dumbs toddlers (and adults) that choose to equate emo with self injury. Which it is not. that's making use of a fad to seek for interest and making use of it as an excuse. it is quite unhappy that there are maximum of persons who might try this merely for interest and not actual have something incorrect with them. Spending a three hundred and sixty 5 days with those people proved that to me. yet emo is just one thing that improve into and could proceed to be to be no longer something yet a fashion. It has no longer something to do with character or emotion. it is music and dressing a undeniable way and not the rest. Goth has in dissimilar techniques been a factor of my existence for the reason that i improve right into a toddler. My mom improve into Goth, yet no longer interior the stereotypical way that maximum persons think of. She did no longer dress like Siouxie Sioux and he or she didnt bypass dancing in Goth golf equipment interior the 80s. beneficial, she listened to the music, even though it improve into extra suitable than that. She carried on the affection for the artwork, literature, kinds, music, videos, and historic previous and delivered it right down to me. i think of Goth is a few thing which you the two are or arent. notwithstanding in case you ought to locate it in your self. i think of the two have been stereotyped and misunderstood too lots. lots so as that any outsiders with a slender strategies immediately initiate throwing around feedback approximately sexuality, faith, morality, etc. they're the two issues that in case you do no longer make the complication to comprehend what they are quite, you may continuously be out of the loop with them.

Answer 7

From my own personal dealings with it, as my daughter has been into the Goth scene since a teenager, all it is is a way to get attention drawn to themselves. What is the most disturbing about the entire thing, is they get their feelings hurt and get hostile when the attention is negative. Then she went through the mutiliation with cutting herself because she was in "pain." All this was in the 1980's before EMO, but I can see no difference. Go figure. I would think that if it were nothing but problems, trouble, and people except for the ones who are just as disturbed, who reject you and your lifestyle, then you need to not get into it. All I saw was nothing but doom and gloom. She still make a big deal out of dressing in black, has her house decorated with a lot of skull art, and the morbid thinking just creeps me out.

Answer 8

Emos seem more like emotionally unstable people. People who don't like showing others how they feel, so instead, they tend to self-inflict themselves causing physical pain, which, apparently is less hurtful than emotional pain. They keep to themselves, but tend to absentmindedly show they are hurting.

Goths-I don't know much about. I know they don't like to be conformists and like to be original, though they tend to conform with each other. They dress in lots of black, probably because any form of color shows emotion and conformity.

Both of these groups do not like labeling and stereotyping. That's the basis of their personalities.

Just an opinion. Thought it would help more than the others' did.

Answer 9

Well it would be nice to know what about stereotyping your writing about...but Goth's main basis is to go against the herd...to go against the stereotypes and conformists...so they become "non-conformists" (if there is such a thing)...and by doing this they just create a whole new herd and conform to the unconforming crowd. Its complete nonsense...Emo's are there to be "EMOtional"...when infanct they are just feeding off eachothers problems and crying about something instead of doing it...by crying together they are fixating on their problems instead of DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Good luck!

Answer 10

Emos and goths are just people who are sad and trying to get attention...

Answer 11

People with an identity crises. They feel a need to belong to something so cling to anything.
Most are young white people. They could cling to European culture and heritage but the main stream media and political correctness has made that taboo so they act stupid instead.