Why do people go goth?

[Vipershark]

Why?

I don't get it.

[QUOTE=vipershark]Why?

I don't get it.[/QUOTE]

Cause they just do..

[Laguna Loire]

I was tempted to myself at one point...hahah, I'm not sure why...a ploy for attention I suppose. -_-

Ehh, who cares?

[Antownee]

They feel that way ffs, use your brain
Anyway, I wear all that buckle stuff and whatnot
MeH basicly a dark taste in clothing

My neighbour is around 13 or 14 and she was a nerd! She had round glasses and brown hair and girly blue and pink clothes. All of a sudden she started wearing black clothes, jewlerry, shoes, black eyeliner and she died her hair black. She wears no glasses now. I thought she was turning gothic.

[Laguna Loire]

Urgh, everyone expects me to wear spike bands and be covered in black clothing all the time because of the music I'm into...so because I'm into Death Metal I have to dress in black all the time and have long hair? Bull****...I can't be bothered, I just wear casual clothes with messy, normal black hair.

[Invader_gir]

gothic people dont have to wear black anyway..
most cases ive heard of people turning gothic is that they want to fade away from the public sort of like a shadow, hence the dark clothing. some people just do it for attention though; they annoy me >:I

[HRBEK]

And some of course who join those weird Gothic Cults that have Black Masses. I really don't want to explain what that is, but it is quite humourous.

Thanks,
HRBEK.

[Hatchet Warrior]

most people don't even know what being gothic really is anyway

[Invader_gir]

indeed, and that really annoys me.
also 'emo' peoples.. they annoy me too

[Hatchet Warrior]

people think they r devil worshippers when they r goth but, being gothic really is a christian religion, true goths wear black because they r mourning the death of jesus

[Danzo]

people go goth because certain things attract certain people.

other people just want attention.

[Antownee]

[QUOTE=Hatchet Warrior]most people don't even know what being gothic really is anyway[/QUOTE]

'Most goths become goths because they have been spurned by 'normal' society because the way they want to live their lives does not fit in with how most people are told to live theirs. Goths are free thinkers, people who do not accept the moral rules of society because they're told 'This is just how it is' or 'This is what God says!'. Rather goths tend to listen to what you have to say, and make up their own mind'

Meh i just ,like the clothes so i'm not one lol

[Soba]

Being a goth or an emo is a stereotype, a label.

Just because I wear black and chains doesn't make me a 'goth' or 'punk' or whatever it is people think. I prefer to not be labelled.

That goes for other people too. Because they wear different clothes or listen to heavy music or rap, doesn't mean they are labelled as something.

I'm not annoyed by any of the people that call themselves something, you can be as whino or rebellious as you want. Why? Because I'm flexible and like to be openminded to different people. I don't like to judge people.

Besides, some people don't match the label they give themselves.

Definitions for labels:

[url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=goth]Goth[/url]
[url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=punk]Punk[/url]
...I found the Punk slang funny.
[url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=emo]Emo[/url]
[url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gangster]Gangster[/url]
[url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=prep]Prep[/url]
[url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=skater]Skater[/url]
[url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=rebel]Rebel[/url]
[url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=nerd]Nerd[/url]
[url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=poser]Poser[/url]

[Invader_gir]

ive been told im gothique, which i dont really think so.. for one; i dont really believe in god and such, but i do believe in spirits and afterlife and them thingies.. and saying that i dont believe in a god isnt saying that i dont believe theres something there [o.o]
thus, i dont follow the 'christen' thing, as you say hatchet..

although, ive been given this label of being 'goth' at college because im usually more than happy to just be by my self every now and again.. and ive been told that im very 'distant' and the like, so people are aware of these actions i do and thus ive been told that i am gothique, as they say..

eh?