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they wore black or listened to "evil" music, and judge their mental stability on that. And that's what makes some people so ignorant - the fact that they are content with blaming it on a stereotype, rather than blaming the influence that drove this person to insanity in the first place. Why did they do what they did? Because the black in their trench coat made them evil? Did Marilyn Manson reach in behind him and pull the trigger?

The most worst part of this question is that even though we shouldn't be judged negatively just by the way we present ourselves in our appearance, people have died just for the being a part of the Goth Subculture. Take recent cases like Sophie Lancaster - a twenty year old woman who happened to be part of our subculture. Just because of the clothes she wore, she was kicked in the head, stomped on, and beaten to death by a group of kids in Stubbylee Park, Bacup, in Lancashire. Her boyfriend was also beaten, but later regained consciousness. If this isn't a good example of the ignorance that a stereotype brings, I don't know what is.

The sad part is, Goths will probably continue to be stereotyped and judged upon a few bad seeds just by the way they dress, and that is the way it is. Incidents in the past have caused our subculture to be crippled in many communities, especially throughout Canada and the United States - but together, many of us still stand. We defend our beliefs and community by continuing to be the people who we want to be, unaffected by the negativity and stereotypes that modern day society has placed over our heads.

Like us or not - we are Goths, and we want the same thing as any other subculture, and that is to dress the way we feel like dressing without being ridiculed. Who is it hurting?

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