I’m Goth, as a teen, in my 20s and now into my married 30s.
There are many things that promote death and torture. And many people will take any kind of hobby or style and take it to extremes.
Are there Goth-styled kids and adults who promote death ? Sure. But that’s not Goth.
My interaction with the concept of death is respect and reverence for life. And that’s a core value of those who interact with it. Dark topics to be thought of and worked out, head-on.
I have interacted with car guys, bikers, even model train builders with some macabre outlooks on things. I only ask those I can ask, to not call this guy Goth, or implicate Goth culture as reason d’etre in events such as this.
“I have interacted with car guys, bikers, even model train builders with some macabre outlooks on things. I only ask those I can ask, to not call this guy Goth, or implicate Goth culture as reason d’etre in events such as this.”
Please! People don’t dress in black, paint themselves like ghouls and zombies and deliberately make themselves look like something out of a horror flick to spread sweetness and light while promoting world peace!
Agreed. It isn't any more fair to paint gun owners with the blood on this murderer's hands, and few here would not howl (justifiably) about that.