An inquest into the suicide of two young people in Sydney blows the lid off the Goth subculture threatening your children. Goths, who are recognisable by piercings and a liking for Marilyn Manson and Korn, are into magic and the occult and given to self-harm and even suicide pacts:
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.

Posted by: threeze | http://neuralvoid.com | Wed Oct 26 14:36:51 2005

i think they are getting confused between goths and livejournalists.

Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Wed Oct 26 15:21:21 2005

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.

Posted by: El Bizarro | http://bizarro.typepad.com | Wed Oct 26 20:39:10 2005

I don't see what the problem is, isn't this natural selection after all?

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