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Because people tend to (stupidly) connect goth culture with depression, suicidality and cutting, I thought it might be appropriate for me to offer this cool photo of goth kids in Mexico City, taken by my colleague Kate Kilpatrick. They don't look sad to me.
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Liz Spikol is senior contributing editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper's book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog -- named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 by PsychCentral -- is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.
Comments
Thanks for the photo! They look great. Thanks for sharing bits from the Mexican blog.
It's funny how Goth doesn't go out of style. What has it been? Maybe 20 years? It's not a fad. Goth embraces, if you will, life AND death. So, seems to me to fit into Mexican culture.
Posted by: Annette Sturdevant | November 23, 2006 02:14 AM
stupid persons, these aren't goth kids, these are emo kids, that's a world of difference, emo is gay and goth rocks, emo is fashion and goth is culture, and here, in mexico, there are a lot of fashioned kids and they are emo, emo sucks!!
Posted by: jonathan | May 15, 2007 04:46 PM
HAHA, they aren't goth! they are emo kids! fuckin' EMO kids.. bwahahaha, people who thinks that they are goth are stupid.. cause, go to this link and you'll see how goth kids look like:
http://www.engeldernacht.ch/deathstars.JPG
Posted by: burzum_4_ever | May 31, 2007 07:51 PM
as a goth Emo kid myself
i know that if ur happy then your happy is your sad then your sad u can't really explain it....emo kids the smaleest thingcan make us cruy and cut and stuff like that but Goth people we just tend to not really care what people think we do what we want and wear what we and and how we want to were it 2.....+these boys look emo to me not Goth.....goth is more then just the hair and all okay ....i am just saying
Posted by: Ann | June 20, 2007 03:00 PM
haha, i agree with jonathan, this is not goth at all, this is emo
Posted by: olilem | June 29, 2007 06:16 PM
uhhh, sorry, but those are 'scene kids' lol.
people need to know the difference between scene/emo/goth.
emo kids are the ones that go around crying and cutting, scene kids are the one that dress similary but are always happy because they know they're hott and everyone likes them lol
Posted by: drew | July 10, 2007 04:49 PM
HA ha haah estupidos emos la verdad esos son los emos mas nieros que he visto que horrible!!
They are disgusting here in Mexico we HATE most of them and the ones in the picture are even more disgusting
Posted by: Norma | September 17, 2007 11:39 PM
cool photo
Posted by: rhiannon eastley | September 30, 2007 07:54 PM
You're all injesting too much moon juice. They're just kids into music who like to dress different from the status quo. You all look quite pathetic with your smug comments attempting to cast labels onto those kids. There's no such thing as an "emo kid" or a "goth kid"... at least not the kind you clowns have in your imagination. They look like music lovers to me.
Posted by: Billy Druid | October 5, 2007 11:43 AM
i agree everyone in society goth, emo, punk, metal, preps, at the end of the day ur no betta than the person ur next to you just remember if you label someone your liable to be labelled yourself which in the end makes you a sheep just like the rest...
Posted by: dest | December 11, 2007 11:34 AM
fuck
just let em be
quit fucking putting labels on these youngsters. that shits fer soup cans dude. damn 40 yr olds and there blogs..
Posted by: austin | December 22, 2007 08:09 AM
WHOA.
Scene Mexicans.
Posted by: TashaCHAOS | January 2, 2008 05:46 AM