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By the way of a few small comments, someone tonight helped me realise why it is I feel I'm growing away from the goth social scene so much.
The few things I still appreciate about the scene were kicked sharply in the teeth by a harsh reminder of the other side of it. The pretention, the small mindedness, the utter elitism that some people seem to revel in.
All that was applied with the assistance of a huge generalisation in the direction of people I know and like, by someone almost entirely clueless as to who they were insulting.
And it really fucking incensed me.
Mostly because I thought we were grown ups now. Games like that have no place in my life, and I guess sometimes I forget just how much some people like to place themselves and their chosen subculture above others.
I think I'll just stick to where I'm happiest. In clubs where nobody gives a shit how you're dressed, or where you're from or what music you like. Places where people are more interested in enjoying themselves than posing and looking down on the rest of the crowd with their noses in the air.
Funny how I've only ever seen an abundance of that attitude in crowds like that which was so easily insulted tonight...
The few things I still appreciate about the scene were kicked sharply in the teeth by a harsh reminder of the other side of it. The pretention, the small mindedness, the utter elitism that some people seem to revel in.
All that was applied with the assistance of a huge generalisation in the direction of people I know and like, by someone almost entirely clueless as to who they were insulting.
And it really fucking incensed me.
Mostly because I thought we were grown ups now. Games like that have no place in my life, and I guess sometimes I forget just how much some people like to place themselves and their chosen subculture above others.
I think I'll just stick to where I'm happiest. In clubs where nobody gives a shit how you're dressed, or where you're from or what music you like. Places where people are more interested in enjoying themselves than posing and looking down on the rest of the crowd with their noses in the air.
Funny how I've only ever seen an abundance of that attitude in crowds like that which was so easily insulted tonight...