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Satan and shoot up schools. According to Color Psychology by David Johnson, "Black is the color of authority and power. It is popular in fashion because it makes people appear thinner. It is also stylish and timeless. Black also implies submission. Priests wear black to signify submission to God. Some fashion experts say a woman wearing black implies submission to men. Black outfits can also be overpowering, or make the wearer seem aloof or evil. Villains, such as Dracula, often wear black."

But have people ever thought that maybe, just maybe, people might wear black because they LIKE black?

Nowadays, it is easy to be dismissed as a Goth. All you need is black hair and heavy eye liner, and you are instantly known as a Goth by the media and its ill-informed listeners. What they don't know is that behind closed doors, you are rocking out to pop-punk, alternative, and metal - one of the very things that the Gothic subculture isn't a part of. If you ask somebody what a Goth is or listens to, you will get a different answer wherever you may go, but when I am asked exactly what it is, I will name off bands like Siouxsie & the Banshees, Specimen, Bauhaus, and early Skinny Puppy. I think of death-hawks, big black teased hair, black jeans, black leather jackets, and David Bowie makeup. But upon asking a wrongly informed observer, and you may get answers like HIM, Evanescence, Marilyn Manson, and My Chemical Romance.

Anything dark, black, or depressing is tied in with the subculture. Not to mention satan-warshipping, wrist-slitting, angst-ridden, life-hating mopers that are lost in life and spend every day dreading the next. Give me a break - that is the perception that the media has dispersed amongst the masses. The media thrives when it has managed to scare or shock - that's the material that gets viewers and high ratings. Do you know how badly things like the Columbine shootings or Virginia Tech incident has crippled the general publics outlook on our culture? There isn't a day that goes by that we aren't shunned because of such incidents, simply because the crimes committed were done by people donning black clothing.

Simply put - black is just a color.

I always thought that people were more smarter than that, but it seems that a lot of people just can't see past a stereotype. They don't see that the shooters in the Columbine incident were troubled for their own reasons, and not because of the clothes they wore. They would rather blame it on the fact that

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