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Title: Subcultures/Gothic - Stop the False Alarmism Standard-Times article pleading to end stereotyping of students based on appearance and interests, particularly goths. (November 27, 2001)

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Stop the false alarmism about 'Goth' lifestyle

I was reading this morning's "Our View" column ("A foiled conspiracy raises new concerns about our students," Nov. 26) and was basically agreeing with it until I got to the following paragraph: "The aloof, hostile, black-draped 'Goth' lifestyle hasn't redeemed itself. It still seems to represent alienation and mortal threats to others. At this point, it has to be taken as evidence of real trouble brewing, everywhere." This is pure nonsense and alarmism. The "Trenchcoat Mafia," and whatever dangerously stupid kids idolize them, are not Goths. "The Goth lifestyle" represents no "mortal threat" to anyone, any more than the punk lifestyle did in the 1970s, the hippie lifestyle did in the 1960s, or the beat lifestyle did in the 1950s.

But even if some kids styling themselves Goths (wannabe Goths, let's say) were to be violent -- well, let's take the hippie example, which may be more relevant to our baby-boomer readers out there. Charles Manson could've been said to be living a hippie lifestyle. Because of his actions, did that mean every hippie everywhere needed to be monitored for "evidence of real trouble brewing"?

Young people who rebel in a different fashion mode and with different musical tastes than their parents did as teenagers, well, they've got to be dangerous to the commonwealth, right? It's always been this way and always will, yet the parents who once wore peace symbols and hair down to their hips somehow don't remember how much static they got from their parents.

Of course, they also weren't accused of being potential murderers just because they wore black and listened to depressing music.

Those with Internet connections should visit this link, which offers links to articles written after Columbine, some that unfairly malign Goths (and implicate them in the tragedy) and some that speak for common sense: http://www.gothic.net/~mayfair/trenchcoat/ The gist of it is that the vast majority of Goths were as horrified by Columbine as everyone else, just as the vast majority of Muslims were as horrified by Sept. 11 as everyone else. But, see, in America we like our scapegoats to be different from us, and so mosques were burned, Arabic people were harassed and assaulted, because anyone not of the agreed-upon white male suburban appearance of "normality" is suspect.

That's never been truer than in high schools after Columbine, and it's only going to get worse for area students after this conspiracy (or scare, depending on what it actually turns out to be). Mandatory dress codes were much discussed after Columbine, as if uniformity of dress would naturally lead to the uniformity of thought -- the unquestioning conformity right down to the soul -- that education higher-ups seem to want from their students.

But let's not take time to think about it; that just hurts our brains. No, let's go after "the Goth lifestyle," movies, TV, video games, Eminem, whatever. That's a lot easier than blaming, say, parents, or ourselves.

A final thought: if we're all now on alert for those nasty "aloof, hostile, black-draped" students (gee, should students now all dress in festive shades of pistachio and peach to elude suspicion?), that doesn't just mean school officials; that means class bullies, too? Yep, here's one more group of "different" kids for them to beat up on every day and shove into lockers, and now they have the imprimatur of The Standard-Times to do it.

Rob Gonsalves lives in Fairhaven. southcoast247.com

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