goth empowerment
So I went out to a club last night. Afterward I was walking down the street with Bear and a few of our friends. We pass by the NYU dorms and there were two guys standing in front of it smoking cigarettes. One of them looks at us and says to his friend "They're all wearing black. I used to beat these guys up in high school."
I instantly burst into hysterical laughter. In retrospect this might not have been the best move but I couldn't help it. I was with Bear, a sweet wonderful person who I've been told looks like he's going to beat someone up and stuff them in a trashcan at any moment; Stu, a very large bouncer; and DjStorm, who may just look like another tall skinny guy, but his height hides the fact that he's not all that skinny. They had another friend who I don't know, and then there was Stu's girlfriend and myself. Some of us may have looked like targets, but if that guy was beating up goths in high school I doubt they looked like Stu, Bear, and Storm.
Bear asks me what I'm laughing at, and I repeat what the guy said (I was the only one close enough to hear.) At this point I'm not sure if the guy said something else or exactly what happened, but Stu turned back and asked them who they were talking to. (Storm says that one of the guys said something about wanting to fuck one of the chicks in black, which meant he was talking about either me or Stu's girlfriend.) The guy starts yelling at him, so all the other guys go over there to stand behind Stu and look imposing. I'm standing nearby with Bear's stuff and Stu's girlfriend who's complaining because she wanted to go eat but now we're held up. While we're standing there another girl from the club turns up, I don't know her but I've seen her around. She looks questioningly at the guys standing around yelling, and I tell her the original comment that started the whole mess. She's glad Stu said something, because when she was in high school she used to get picked on for being a goth.
So this goes on for a while. The guy who made the initial comment throws in that he's a college grad and in the military. He also says that he would kill Stu, as long as Stu is willing to give him an excuse. Since he won't make the first move, this means he wants Stu to deck him. This then turns into a request for Stu to just touch him. After a while the guy's friend starts going "Are you going to touch him? Touch him!"
I commented to the goth girl (Stu's girlfriend had wandered off by this time) that that was so cute. He just wanted Stu to touch him. If Eyeteeth had been there, she probably would have started shouting "Woo! Hot man-on-man action!" That would have ended everything right then, I didn't have the guts to scream that. This is why I think she should be around for events like this, and why Bear does not.
Bear, Stu, and Storm never make the first move in a fight either, so this could've potentially go on all night. So finally Bear said "Stu, let's either do this or go home. Because it's getting ridiculous." We ended up leaving shortly afterwards. The goth chick thanked Stu for responding to the guy and "representing," since when she was younger she couldn't.
At one point during the whole incident, Storm asked the guys "Are you in grade school?" Which was pretty much how I'd felt the whole time. I mean, I had been under the assumption that most people grow out of thinking that it's cool to beat people up based on what they wear or what sort of music they listen to. This guy was in his 20s, he's still proud of beating up goths when he was a teenager? I don't know if he realised that he was talking loud enough for me to hear, but either way he seemed to think that making his initial comment would score points with his friend. And what's worse, it might've worked.
I instantly burst into hysterical laughter. In retrospect this might not have been the best move but I couldn't help it. I was with Bear, a sweet wonderful person who I've been told looks like he's going to beat someone up and stuff them in a trashcan at any moment; Stu, a very large bouncer; and DjStorm, who may just look like another tall skinny guy, but his height hides the fact that he's not all that skinny. They had another friend who I don't know, and then there was Stu's girlfriend and myself. Some of us may have looked like targets, but if that guy was beating up goths in high school I doubt they looked like Stu, Bear, and Storm.
Bear asks me what I'm laughing at, and I repeat what the guy said (I was the only one close enough to hear.) At this point I'm not sure if the guy said something else or exactly what happened, but Stu turned back and asked them who they were talking to. (Storm says that one of the guys said something about wanting to fuck one of the chicks in black, which meant he was talking about either me or Stu's girlfriend.) The guy starts yelling at him, so all the other guys go over there to stand behind Stu and look imposing. I'm standing nearby with Bear's stuff and Stu's girlfriend who's complaining because she wanted to go eat but now we're held up. While we're standing there another girl from the club turns up, I don't know her but I've seen her around. She looks questioningly at the guys standing around yelling, and I tell her the original comment that started the whole mess. She's glad Stu said something, because when she was in high school she used to get picked on for being a goth.
So this goes on for a while. The guy who made the initial comment throws in that he's a college grad and in the military. He also says that he would kill Stu, as long as Stu is willing to give him an excuse. Since he won't make the first move, this means he wants Stu to deck him. This then turns into a request for Stu to just touch him. After a while the guy's friend starts going "Are you going to touch him? Touch him!"
I commented to the goth girl (Stu's girlfriend had wandered off by this time) that that was so cute. He just wanted Stu to touch him. If Eyeteeth had been there, she probably would have started shouting "Woo! Hot man-on-man action!" That would have ended everything right then, I didn't have the guts to scream that. This is why I think she should be around for events like this, and why Bear does not.
Bear, Stu, and Storm never make the first move in a fight either, so this could've potentially go on all night. So finally Bear said "Stu, let's either do this or go home. Because it's getting ridiculous." We ended up leaving shortly afterwards. The goth chick thanked Stu for responding to the guy and "representing," since when she was younger she couldn't.
At one point during the whole incident, Storm asked the guys "Are you in grade school?" Which was pretty much how I'd felt the whole time. I mean, I had been under the assumption that most people grow out of thinking that it's cool to beat people up based on what they wear or what sort of music they listen to. This guy was in his 20s, he's still proud of beating up goths when he was a teenager? I don't know if he realised that he was talking loud enough for me to hear, but either way he seemed to think that making his initial comment would score points with his friend. And what's worse, it might've worked.