Same here, but the older girls loved it. I went to school with bright red tights once just to show how far I was willing to push the envelope. This super hot Hispanic girl who was a sophomore came up & said "i had to talk to the guy who was wearing the red pants" I was a freshman & that was my first glimpse of notoriety.. i think ive been subconsciously chasing that feeling ever since. Wish I knew her name now.. i want to say it was like Jenna or something. Hope shes living her best life šš«
I would dress in my girl friendsā clothes and let them do my make up about once a year at our conservative Christian college, because I knew it would make people upset.
Which is why we determine woman by sex, not gender.
You'd be shocked how many people don't though. They think if Donald Trump said he identified as a woman, he'd be the first woman President. Since he's orange, and would still be married to Melania, they think he'd be the first lesbian woman poc President too.
I am thrilled you get the joke. The audience usually rages. You applied logic and shut them down.
I also loved to wear wild stuff and the reactions spanned the entire range of human emotions. There were people who thought it was lame, people who thought it was hot, people who got angry (probably because they were mad they thought it was hot). My favorite reaction was on a day some asshole started a rumor that someone was going to shoot up the school, one of the star football players came up to me in English class and asked "Hey man, I know we don't talk much, but we're cool right?" And I said "Is this about the shooting rumor? I would never do something like that I promise" and he said "Yeah yeah, of course....but.... we're cool right?" And I said "Yeah, we're cool." He sighed in relief and went to tell his teammates in the class they were safe.
Same goes with colored hair, in HS I used to get roasted for having bleached blonde hair but funnily enough the same guys who made fun of me eventually ended up getting their hair bleached too as the years went on and all those emo rappers started to become popular..
I wore skinny jeans in high school. Best clap back I ever had was when some drunk 30 year old said āI think my little sister has those same pants.ā I said āwouldnāt know, she wasnāt wearing anything last time I saw her.ā
100% was about to get my ass beat in a TGIFs if his friends didnāt step in. Still worth it.
Dude, I understand perfectly, the late 80ās and early 90ās in the UK I had to search the womenās section for tight jeans as they disappeared with new wave and all in the blokes section in alt clothing shops were oversize baggy monstrosities
Same same. The girl that shared her jeans with me told half the school we fucked, because āI really didnāt want anyone making fun of you for being gay.ā
Part of the half of the school that heard we hooked up, told her mom, who was my momās best friend. So her mom came into school and literally pulled me out of class by the ear the next day to berate me for having sex.
Then I had to tell her that it wasnāt true. What teenager ever wants to say āyeah I didnāt actually have sex with her.ā
Anyways, thanks for bringing up a weird memory. Donāt mind my share!
Also, I am not gay. Not that thereās anything wrong with it. Just a regular hetero.
Bro, I would clown on my good friend for wearing his sisters jeans that he would proudly say were his sisters jeans back in HS. Crazy how the times change
I was an adult when I learned that the marks on trees along hiking trails were called blazes, and then I thought, "oh shit, that's why they're called trailblazers"
Thereās a difference between actually being goth and doing what she does. Thatās the important thing here. Goth is a music based subculture. She larps the aesthetic for her only fans.
Its called e-goth, based around internet culture and aesthetic appraisal, its crazy having to scroll down this far to see someone mention subculture like this
Like, yea, it is goth, its a subculture of goth thay focuses almost entirely on the aesthetic
I donāt know if itās her or another of these āgothā girls, but thereās a group of them whose boyfriends are in a āgoth metalā band thatās really just shitty death metal.
Ugggghhh how can people say this sort of thing with a straight face. She's not a REAL goth!! I'm sorry that your category has changed over time, it's a real shame about being in a human society.
Goth isnāt a category of person. Itās a music-based subculture. The genres associated with that subculture have changed and evolved over time, but that doesnāt mean being a trust fund kid who plays pretend with gothic make up to sell her only fans makes her a āgothā. She has not once ever engaged with the goth music scene in any meaningful way.
And yet she and people like her are described as goth and thusly....
Like, it doesn't matter what you call goth, it matters what everyone calls goth. You don't own goth. Language is descriptive not prescriptive and goth is being used by people not embedded in your music-based subculture to say something else, and that's fine.
"She's not goth" man screams at crowd describing her style as "goth".
I donāt āownā goth. The subculture does. Language is both descriptive and prescriptive. While the societally accepted meaning of a term can change and evolve over time there are certain things that simply donāt. You cannot call a flower a tree and in doing so actually change the physical matter of that flower into a tree; no matter how much societal standards dictate that this is so. While the word ātreeā could eventually come to mean āflowerā culturally, on a scientific level those two objects will always remain biologically distinct.
People can dilute the meaning of the word āgothā by using it to describe people who wear dark makeup but otherwise donāt even engage with fashion thatās remotely of the goth scene, people who very poorly adopt the aesthetic primarily to promote themselves while completely ignoring the music scene that those aesthetics were created to be a companion piece to. These people can call women like her āgothā, and the culturally understood meaning of that word can continue to be diluted, but that doesnāt change the fact that women like her are fundamentally diametrically opposed to the real subculture from which she appropriates her aesthetics. Peopleās popular understanding of language is descriptive, but categorical terms are fundamentally prescriptive. They can coexist, but they remain in contradiction with each other while doing so. They have a dialectical relationship.
The amount of people who claimed they wanted to make life better & easier for their kids, then flip their shit when their kids don't have it as bad or hard as they did is absurd.
I did get beat up for wearing black makeup as a dude in the early 2000s so that she could wear this in public...
And no, I don't hold it against her for being an e-girl that exploits lonely dudes. I simply don't care that sex sells. It always has & always will. At least now she doesn't have to get naked to exploit her looks for money.
Iām not sure why itās such a difficult concept to grasp for a lot of peopleā¦
There are many trends and methods people utilize that wouldnāt be preferred by the predecessors who paved the way to that trend
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u/BinkyNoctem420 15h ago
I mean, actually you did. A trailblazer cuts the path for others to follow with less resistance
So...