Word: goths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stepfather's gun cabinet, yet he chose a low-powered .22 rifle to shoot up his high school. He was a practiced shot, yet he aimed low. He was literally a Boy Scout, a pleasant 15-year-old kid who went to church and didn't care for Goth life or Marilyn Manson or Duke Nukem or any of the other cultural markers we have come to expect from our kid killers...
...month in Colorado, students are finding themselves watched more closely than ever, and nowhere is that scrutiny more oppressive than online. Now the ACLU has announced that it will represent a group of students from an Ohio high school who were suspended and threatened with expulsion for creating a Goth-themed Web site...
...initial assumption that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were Goths--simply because they wore black trench coats, painted their fingernails black and listened to Marilyn Manson music--got real Goths everywhere hot under the black leather collar. "Teenagers tend to go after the most powerful images they can," explains Seth Baker, a Los Angeles Goth. "They put together a lot of images." Real Goths have nothing to do with violence...
Still, if Klebold and Harris were wolves in Goth's clothing, there was plenty to identify with. "We romanticize the darkness of humanity," says Peter Stover, 21, a photography major at Chicago's Columbia College, who has midnight blue hair and regulation pale skin. "We're creatures of the night...
...interest (purely academic) in subjects such as Satanism and blood drinking, which ensured this was one rebellion that would never enter the mainstream. In the '90s shock rockers like Manson appropriated the image and blurred the lines--until any shaggy-haired, trench-coat-wearing teen could be considered a Goth by his peers...