Late yesterday, a school friend - a member of a Goth clique at the South Coast high school the girl attended - told the inquest her friend had been into white magic, Wicca, not the dark magic she said some Goths followed.I wonder what the serious Wiccans make of teenage angstpuppies appropriating their religion as a badge of hormonal alienation.
She said while some "heavy Goths" were into self-harm and talked of suicide, it was only once - on the night her friend ran away and came to stay at her house - that she mentioned suicide.I think I've witnessed the "heavy Goth" phenomenon. They'd be the ones hanging around shopping centres in size-XXXL Marilyn Manson/Cradle of Filth T-shirts, pale flesh bulging out from fishnet tops.
I think they call themselves "goths" because "metalhead" is two syllables too long or something. And because the only other contenders for the title are a bunch of greying Bauhaus fans and PVC-clad pill-popping sysadmins.
I don't see what the problem is, isn't this natural selection after all?
i think they are getting confused between goths and livejournalists.