QUOTE(kaboom13 @ May 31 2010, 06:56 PM)
I'm really really off put by this picture from just the intense lack of anything there. I've met a few girls from the goth subculture and I find them to be incredibly gorgeous and people I deeply respect. One of them does wear full length dresses, but there just isn't that lack of space that I see from this picture. Its still entirely possible to still have form in black clothes. I didn't mean that post to be as broad as I wrote it as claiming the entire subculture is insecure, but it was specific to this specific picture: I don't know what it is, but some part of me sees the combination of the black and the pose and just something about the way she's holding herself that struck me when I saw this first as insecure.
I'm fine with makeup, or sunglasses, hell, even high heels on females. I don't really have a problem with the small things we do to make ourselves attractive, but the sheer amount here, or maybe just the way its presented seems so off-putting that she honestly feels more like a canvas with so many things placed upon it that it distorts what's naturally beautiful.
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can't argue with any of that. I think it's really well put.
I guess i find it kinda 'interesting', specifically because of that hidden-reality aspect. there's an appeal to it which reminds me vaguely of harlequin eroticism.
also, there are other statements made i think. for example I see
"i'm dark, i don't buy into your pixie dust and happy endings Disney BS. I kinda enjoy being scary, it can be fun. I don't have to be a raging feminist to get people to NOT buy me an apron as a gift. I don't want you to know me, I am not on display, I keep you at arms length. But then again I am on display aren't I? but what is the message? am I copying my BFF who went goth last year? or is this more my own statement? Maybe I'm just saying a great big screaming F$@K OFF to all the people who want to judge me, rate me, label me, and expect me to toe the line. Maybe because of the social circles I hang in, I have just come to find this attractive in my own personal sense of style."
I am of course just speculating. I just think the possible range of mentalities and meanings is pretty vast. if you don't like it, that's cool (IMG:
style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I think she'd think that's cool too. Perhaps it's even about just actively filtering out people from her social life who would take exception to it?
I don't dress that way. I have a slightly odd sense of style, there's some definite touches of victorian taste in there, and i'm fond of leather, and black. but i've never owned black lipstick, piercings, etc. and when i was younger and hung out at denny's all night, my goths friends felt i looked normal enough to make me their 'honorary goth girl' in their little clique. As in i didn't quite look the part, but they liked me anyway, one of them even said he thought it was like an extra level of nonconforming coolness hehe.
anyways (IMG:
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This post has been edited by Kath: May 31 2010, 07:29 PM
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