The Elitist Amnesia of the Gothic Gatekeeper
The Elitist Amnesia of the Gothic Gatekeeper
Confronting Cultural Gatekeeping
Before you can call a modern anime like vampish E-girl bit a fake goth or that they are stupid and ruining the culture with their over sexualization and E-trash, you have to completely distort what goth originally was.
Modern gatekeepers protect a rigid, revisionist fantasy of the subculture one that insists goth was born out of a pristine, gloomy vacuum of anti-religion and all black clothing, tattoos head to toe and not all about pure black clothing, pale skin, and an obsessive fixation on vampires. The fact is its always been a mix of all these things and more. So the purist claims are frankly bullshit.
Also, a lot of the "black and white" styles were inspired by old Black and White TV shows and movies, of which such as The Addams Family and the Munsters that aired in the…
