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Nothing special here either.
People used to shout "Satan!" and the like or really managed to show some cerebral capacity in labeling me "Gothic!" (for some reason German goths are usually called "Gothics"... so much for grammar...).
Oh, and I remember one particularly smart young fellow who told me "Dude, you listen to Black Metal, I swear!" (I remember I was wearing a bondage skirt and some eyeliner...) - and I still wonder if it shouldn't normally be up to me, to tell or swear what I like or not...
I absolutely got used to this stuff and hardly recognized it anymore, but then people (usually packs of little girls) started calling "Emo!" which - I admit - quite annoys me.
Nothing against emo kids, I'm just not interested in them and I don't really care if they adapt our fashion or parts of it - and I still believe that they'll either become normal boring mainstream people or 'real goths' when they are older...
But why oh why do they have to label me thus? Imagine that:
There's a guy clad in black t-shirt and jeans (nothing fancy in that particular situation), eyes and fingernails black, with some heavy boots, studded wristbands and belt, etc. Obviously mid-20 (have you ever seen an emo who is older than ...say... 17 years old? I haven't).
What the hell is emo about this person?
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