What are your views on goth culture

Just curious as to everybodys views on the gothic community and subculture, if you have any questions concerning the culture just fun mail me, I am trying to help people understand the way we live and the reasons we are gothic,... And I don't have a...

cultures area to post this so I put it in religion

I think that most people aren't truly goth. Yeah, they dress in all black, but do they know where it originated. Usually not.

Most are just poseurs.

thank you, I like your response, I actually just got done having a conversation with sumone who wanted to know the answer to that... thats what I should have asked for the people who are true goths...

I like it. I like the fashions, the music (the newer 'goth' types like EBM and such, not just gothic rock), and the general sort of ideas about it... But I'm not goth. Mainly because I can't be doing with the elitist trad-goths and their gother-than-thou attitudes. (I know they're not all like that, lol) But I like too many things to stick to just one. Sometimes I dress in a 'gothic' style, but sometimes I wear a pink t-shirt and jeans. Sometimes I listen to goth, sometimes I want to listen to metal, or pop... It just depends.

I guess what I mean is... I like the newer goth subculture, the bigger one that includes all the steampunk, cyber, cabaret, Victorian etc. as well as the 'real' goth (which is a rather silly thing to say anyway, since REAL Goths don't exist anymore), but not the part of it where people stop being themselves and having fun, and start simply trying to be more goth than the next person and take it all way too seriously.

So many posers now a days. Seem more like a fashion trend more than a subculture now. I've been contemplating on dropping the title of Goth, it's not what it use to be back in the 80's. It's not even what it use to be back in the 90's.

I hate the word goth, I never use that to describ myself, because it is so poser and cleche, I mean I have white face/black lips/ and generaly wear black clothing, but goth is such a horrible word and Just Sarah^^^ is right they don't know what it means, but they dress like that to 'rebel' I mean the goths where a German tribe, it was a litriture style in the romance movement in the 1600's and arcutecture of buildings
Try hards make me sick... they make people like me who loves dark theatrics and extravagant costume, and lots of over the top makeup look like what people call
'goth' when I'm just a passionate writter who has indugled herself in the world of theatre, makeup, costume and darkness, although people have never recognised me as an absent minded try hard and have seen me
for who I am due to my cryptic personality
they usualy understand, but for people who don't know me
I'm just some person trying to dress scary
for attention when they don't understand
I have deep obsessions with
theatrical, non natralistic things

Darling, that's basically what the true blue Goth is dear. Now a days the title has been perverted to nothing more than scene people, or people seeking attention, or to rebel, ect, but they're nothing more than mall-Goths -posers. It's hard now a days to find a genuine Goth.

to red_rose_mafia... Keep it true and real, you are one of the real ones, not a poser.