Whither gothdar?
Jan. 25th, 2006 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaPaul Hodkinson (who reads this, but if he wants to reveal his journal that's up to him ;-) says in his book Goth (this is not an exact quote) that goths tend to spend a lot of time in the subculture ... so if you say you're not a goth but you spend quite a lot of time there and look like one, you're a f*cking g*th.
From the gothdar poll, my new rule of thumb might be: if you know what "gothdar" is without further explanation, you're probably a goth. If it's always on involuntarily, you're definitely a goth, or at least a pervy goth fancier. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
ronebofh?)
Do your eyes spot goths before you've consciously noticed them? Does someone trigger your gothdar then you have to try to work out what set it off and whether it was correct?
The obvious question is: why gothdar? Why is it always on? What does it do for (or against) you?
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Date: 2006-01-25 11:03 pm (UTC)