Gothic Discrimination in School - Page 11

maggot · 03-06-2006, 07:03 PM

Oh my god!

Hah, modern mainstream culture.
What ever happened to the flappers? They had kickass hair. Oh, and they were always with Buster Keaton

03-06-2006, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by maggot

What ever happened to the flappers? They had kickass hair. Oh, and they were always with Buster Keaton

{That picture is as bad as those girls that can't hide their thong)

"Flappers" were women in the 1920's who wanted to throw off female stereotypes,so they drank,cursed,and basically ran wild. It later became more mainstream to wear the long loose fitting clothes and strings of beads,basically to look in style. Both Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd (Both revials of Charlie Chaplin) used the flapper-type of girl in their silent films.

03-06-2006, 07:18 PM

I have a feeling that I can't win...
should I start a topic about high heels,I have no idea.

....Hello

....Kitty?

maggot · 03-06-2006, 07:28 PM

Gawd, you people just can't tell my jokes sometimes.

And I love Mr. Keaton. I find his films funny as hell.

03-06-2006, 07:47 PM

Thongs with words on them just gives somebody the reason they need to oogle your butt(Staring..me? No,I was reading your Hello Kitty comic).

maggot · 03-06-2006, 08:01 PM

Exactly, Reject.
If you have a poem on your bewbs, I'm gonna read it.

And you had better get to know my jokes! *Smashes left hand on desk, picks up the bone splinters and brandishes them at elder members*

03-06-2006, 08:04 PM

Calm down,everybody keep their pants on

maggot · 03-06-2006, 08:29 PM

It was the best costume ever

03-06-2006, 08:38 PM

On the internet,who knows if you're not wearing pants.

CptSternn · 03-07-2006, 03:22 AM

Surf (the Web) Naked

WolfMoon · 03-13-2006, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Santarea

It's my personal gawthy creedo "I wear no pants".

Uh...........

*thud*

Mood · 03-27-2006, 01:49 AM

Again, because I can't pick up on the current conversation I would like to say that schools have every right to post dress restrictions. Also, I don't lend sympathy to people who are teased for what they wear to school if it was their choice to wear it.

If you don't want to be descriminated against, don't dress differently. And if you feel that strongly about your subculture, I suggest you google "coporate goth" to get tips on how to dress goth and yet still function in society.

homo-adonis · 09-04-2006, 07:46 PM

I think I'm a little older than most on this board and I must say back when I was in middle school in the early eighties I had tattoos. And I got hell for them let alone the rest of my look. Remember tattoos were not a maistream thing like they are now and seeing Goths , Punks , or even New wavers back then in school was not too common. I thought things now would be much better.

Minyaliel · 09-05-2006, 04:34 AM

Depends on where you are (age, location, school), I guess. I've always gotten strange looks or hurtful remarks about my clothing and make- up style at school, but now that I'm in University, I actually meet either indifference or people who love my style and give me lots of compliments *grins*

sylas · 10-07-2006, 01:50 AM

i dont know if some one has allready said this but i think its them being pussies well yeah the kids where goth but it dosent mean you just go around messing with everyone elese that fits in your fuckin sterotype chart ANY ONE can use a fuckin gun i hope they know that

Peter · 10-07-2006, 01:54 AM

If anyone else has said that, I'm sure they weren't as eloquent as yourself.

DarkHeartedDemoness · 10-07-2006, 06:06 AM

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Originally Posted by sylas

i dont know if some one has allready said this but i think its them being pussies well yeah the kids where goth but it dosent mean you just go around messing with everyone elese that fits in your fuckin sterotype chart ANY ONE can use a fuckin gun i hope they know that

Which kids were goth? The Columbine kids? No, dear, they weren't. They were homicidal maniacs in trench coats.

ASHESOFX · 10-07-2006, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by homo-adonis

I think I'm a little older than most on this board and I must say back when I was in middle school in the early eighties I had tattoos. And I got hell for them let alone the rest of my look. Remember tattoos were not a maistream thing like they are now and seeing Goths , Punks , or even New wavers back then in school was not too common. I thought things now would be much better.

i so have to agree with this...for me growing up in that era was hard. i surely didn't fit into the normal "preppie" style of the time here in america, i never felt comfortable in Sebago Docksiders and Lacoste alligator shirts...despite what my mother bought me. i would paint my shoes black and dye my clothes in the bathtub. i wanted blue hair...in the days before manic panic, we used kool aid and peroxide. my teachers tried to make me take the safety pins out of my ears in class, they said they were distracting. cheapest earings on earth is what they were...for my friends and i our "style" was all about emerging music --discovering bands like the cure and echo who came from england like Duran Duran but just weren't mainstream. art was our way of expression...art on paper, art in music and even art on sidewalks and the middle of the street. we lived in a cornfield town--there were no malls to go buy punk clothes and gothic gowns--we had to make our own. we were straight edge--with the x's on our hands--back in the early 80's and thought of as freaks, but somehow, in our school that was cool at the time. my best friend was the homecoming king for god's sake--not the high school quarterback!
how did being dark turn into such a sorry ass conotation over the years? how did the black trenchcoat become synonomous with Columbine when people have been wearing them for years?
And now with this poor slaughter of the Amish girls--what kind of symbol is going to rise from this? What cultural group is going to be blamed for the antics of the crazed gunman here?

Godslayer Jillian · 10-07-2006, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Peter

If anyone else has said that, I'm sure they weren't as eloquent as yourself.

I'm loving you, Peter.

Crying_Crimson_Tears · 10-07-2006, 11:13 AM

At my school the administration doesn't give a flying fuck what we dress like as long as it's within the dress code. No belly buttons showing, no cleavage, no underwear hanging out, no ass cracks, etc. But the kids can be really horrible about it. Thinking that just because you wear black and such it means that you're a cutter and that you probably do drugs or something. I find cutters and druggies are the ones who are "preppy" and such. The kids think that you're depressed just because of the amount of black you wear. I get the comments, sure, but I also get compliments from time to time. There actually is getting to be more tolerance at my school with the kids because they start to understand it's the person, not the clothing. I think that maybe if more Goth/punk people start to show that they can be loving, caring and understanding people too. It may take some time, but maybe people wil eventually start to understand and leave us alone.

knightmare · 10-10-2006, 07:50 AM

ASHESOFX, it's nice to hear a viewpoint of an original and mature man as yourself.
Goths are always going to be discriminated against, as all groups are. The misconceptions of the gothic people's fascination of death, and the dark side of humanity contribute to this misperception. These factors and our "morbidly original" sense of style are practically incomprehensible
to a society that focuses on success and "living your life to the fullest." Anything that society does not understand, they mislabel it as a threat. They do not know that we can be fascinated by the dark side of humanity and still be a normal, functional human being of society. Also, the media's negative portrayal of "goths" doesn't help either.

Momerath · 02-23-2007, 01:42 AM

I think in my old Jr. High School, they told me not to wear my little spike bracelets. I really didn't care, because I knew it wasn't a big deal anyways, and I knew I was more my mind than my clothing anyways.

Cyntrox · 02-23-2007, 06:32 AM

My teachers keep lowering my grades because they say I write too "dark..."

Lady_Lacrimosa_Umbrae · 05-11-2007, 10:07 AM

In my school we don't have a dress code, though we have a few understandable rules: We must be clean (in the take-a-shower sense), we can't go naked and we can't wear bathing suits (I have no idea why someone came up with this last rule, but well...)

If it helps, I'll tell you that in my friend's school they have a uniform, and some people were against it, so a group of boys protested by putting on the girl's uniform skirts... and, as it was a part of the uniform and nobody had thought that might happen, nobody had rules against that... and the boys wore the skirts to school for days and days. It was a good idea. LOL

Anyway, it seems that's just the prejudicing. It has nothing at all with the clothes being distracting or not, that's just the excuse to make the rules that their little narrow normal minds want. I suggest that you try to find some legal contradiction or something like that.

KontanKarite · 05-11-2007, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Mood

Again, because I can't pick up on the current conversation I would like to say that schools have every right to post dress restrictions. Also, I don't lend sympathy to people who are teased for what they wear to school if it was their choice to wear it.

If you don't want to be descriminated against, don't dress differently. And if you feel that strongly about your subculture, I suggest you google "coporate goth" to get tips on how to dress goth and yet still function in society.

Unacceptable. This train of thought is almost as bad as the idea that certain people get discriminated against because they wear black. It is NOT okay to have prejudices. It makes you into a shitty person.

It's a social change though. I would never expect or want any sort of law to protect me or make it okay for people to be goth. I would just rather someday that people find that the aesthetic of goth isn't so fucked up and it really isn't that important. Yes, the goths understand that compromise is a part of life. But goths always compromise. Now it's your turn. Understand that it is okay and stop making such a big deal about it like others do. Just because we can learn to not hold our "gawthyness in high regard doesn't mean that we change ourselves as the only answer to a problem. Why don't you change your mind and be a better person for it instead of having me change my clothes because you're afraid of my looks. I swear I wont bite. I'm probably more afraid of you than you are of me.