Metalheads, skaters, preps.... Lables suck! >_<;

I'm labeled all the time in my school. My school has alot of people who dress in the gothic style, so the situation you described would never happen there. 65% of the people at my school dress in the gothic style and listen to metal. It's the other way around, non-goths are the people who are stereotyped, and that type includes me. People call me a geezer, old fashioned, grandpa, and wierdo because I listen to classic rock instead of metal. I wear light colors and the whole bit, and because of that everyone is always telling me to go hang back with my dad's generation because that's where I belong. I do like metal, it's just not my favorite thing to listen to every waking hour of the day, and people often single me out because I dress in "nerdy" clothes and listen to Jimi Hendrix instead of Iced Earth.

i am myself, ive been called a new-age-gothic-punk-ass-skate-wannebe-dude-with-a-tic and stuff, but i dont care, lables suck, that i agree too, ow well, what can ya do about it?

Yeah you can't really do much about it anyway. So I'll just ignore it.
I've been labled lots (mostly since I tend to wear a lot of different clothing styles I just wear what's comfy..)
But I assume I'd most likely be labled a prep. I've even been labeled goth since I hang out with people that tend to dress in black a lot yeah... whatever
Though, 3 years ago when I came to this school there were close to no people that would be labled as punk or goth and right now, just 3 years later (same people.. mostly) and lots of punk/goth influence, it's just a fashion trend sortof here..

People can lable all they want, I don't mind..

to add something more without editing:
people should accept others for who they are, and dont judge them on they're appearance
""*** it all, **** this world, **** everything that you stand for, Dont belong, Dont exist, Dont give a ****, DONT EVER JUDGE ME! " to qoute slipknot :3
people tend to think that goths always think about suicide and death and stuff (wich is complete BS)


:3
and its the same with other "styles" people always find soemthing negative to blab about
blarg, why cant we all just get along?
/me yells shut the **** up at a classmate

Originally Posted by Kedisar

o_< Argh. You quoted my post before I had the chance to edit it. ::flings molten rocks at you::

Really, it pisses me off with people assuming your lifestyle just by the music you listen to or your appearance. There's so much more to it than that. If I ran around in khakis and a plain shirt, would that make me any 'less' of a metal fan? I do it all the time, and I don't feel any different. Looks are very deceiving; most people would probably assume I'm a 'prep' at first glance and want nothing to do with me.

Oh how little they know. :3

hey, you just reminded me about my dad kedsy... *bows down and fans kedsy with outstretched arms* ... ALL HAIL KEDISAR!!!! ...just kidding

anyway, my dad. he thinks just because i listen to skate rock/rap/hip-hop a lot and am always on my board with kids that drug and smoke and drink at the skatepark that im some rowdy kid who hates everyone and has no direction. i mean, seriously. i skate, so what. lots of kids who dont smoke or drink or drug skate. big deal. in my opinion thats f-something-c-k-e-d, i hate being labelled by my own dad for that, let alone something so normal for kids my age. he is so seriously behind the times its sickening. its like, i ALWAYS play the same five skate songs over and over every time i go on the comp. BIG WHOOPIE F-ING KINDU. i like positive-based songs too! i like phil colins, does that not tell you anything (sorry i cant recall any more names of artists in my rage session)?
i suppose to the kids these days skating is all cool and everything but when youre parents overuse that fact... its just annoying. very annoying.

Ah Titles... The most worthless yet most influentual part of highschool life.

"What crowd do you belong to."

Been there done that, just know you'll have labels and titles all you're life. People don't judge you by how you are, and who you are. They judge you by what you are and who you hang out with.

It's a part of life I suggest you get used to it and move on.

Best advice I can offer on that one.

eh- damn lables, here's my story..

In 6th grade I was very much into pokemon (still am heh..) and nobody could beat me on my block.. then..

we moved. into clifton, and I went to school, I couldn't wait to see what kinda trainners where there... and I soon found out 10 people liked pokemon, the others HATED it. ::sigh:: it was very hard trying to keep up my hobby. everyone would just come by and rip our cards or something like that... so most of my friends stopped playing it cuz it wasn't cool at my school, but I wouldn't stop liking it cuz of some losers saying I was worshiping the devil or that I had no life.. but I tried my hardest to keep liking it. though it got worse the better, nobody even knew my name I had a lalbe "pokemon girl" though only have of the people said pokemon right. -_-;

anyways... after 7th grade I kept my love for teh cute lil pocket mosters under wraps... I'm going to be a junior next year, and those boys still call me pokemon girl. >_< though I pay no mind and flip them off.. I've been champ at our tornament for years, still the best in this lil town.. though it's sad so many trainres have giving up to play yugoh (or whatever ish called) or stop because of the same reason my friends did many years ago...

there's my lil story.

i know, i play yu-gi-oh, (its quite a cool game actually )
but people tend to see me as a childish person as well, because i play a cardgame, so what?
i mean, card-games require more strategy then checkers or chess, sooooooooooooooo?
cant believe they call it childish
/me rants at his school

Originally Posted by Zgirl

eh- damn lables, here's my story..

In 6th grade I was very much into pokemon (still am heh..) and nobody could beat me on my block.. then..

we moved. into clifton, and I went to school, I couldn't wait to see what kinda trainners where there... and I soon found out 10 people liked pokemon, the others HATED it. ::sigh:: it was very hard trying to keep up my hobby. everyone would just come by and rip our cards or something like that... so most of my friends stopped playing it cuz it wasn't cool at my school, but I wouldn't stop liking it cuz of some losers saying I was worshiping the devil or that I had no life.. but I tried my hardest to keep liking it. though it got worse the better, nobody even knew my name I had a lalbe "pokemon girl" though only have of the people said pokemon right. -_-;

anyways... after 7th grade I kept my love for teh cute lil pocket mosters under wraps... I'm going to be a junior next year, and those boys still call me pokemon girl. >_< though I pay no mind and flip them off.. I've been champ at our tornament for years, still the best in this lil town.. though it's sad so many trainres have giving up to play yugoh (or whatever ish called) or stop because of the same reason my friends did many years ago...

there's my lil story.

Practically the story of my fandom as well. I have to have to cover up the fact that I own almost all of the cards and all the Gameboy versions. whenerver I'm playing the gameboy version in public and someone asks me what I'm playing, I have to pretend to not hear them or ignore them. It feels like I have leprosy, like my Pokemon fandom is something that I should be ashamed of and should never allow to become publicly known. It sickens me and pisses me off that I have to remain so secretive about one of my favorite hobbies, but it has been the only way that I've avoided becoming even more of a pariah in my high school than I already am. ***** ******* narrowminded prejudiced ******ers.

lol Foamy, I have tried many card games (including yugioh) but I never really got into them. I like pokemon, anyways I already have all the stronge pokemon I need. X3 and if someone asks me what game I'm playing, I just tell them "yellow" or "sapphire" heh.. X3

anyways that's very sad to hear AJ, and all of it is ture... thankfully I can be really open about it on the internet along with my anime hobbies without people saying I watch kiddy shows and cartoon porn. -_-
people at my school are very hateful, and it's a shame they are to dense to except that differe people have different hobbies.. > > btw one time I was called gothic because I drew a picture from my chobits manga...

now excuse me, I'm going to go watch pokemon, then my new moive. ::hops off::

ps. as horrible as this sounds... I'm happy I'm not the only one with this problem... ^ ^;; it's been nice finally being able to talk about it. X_x

I'm labeld bookworm ane geek, the bookworm part is true, I guess... I read for fun which seems to be the big taboo, "you can't do that, you might learn something"... If anyone in my school says the word "Starcraft" then they are immideatly regarded as geeks... It isn't to bad though, as no one really cares, sure you belong to a diffirent group, but no one makes a big deal out of it... Except for one kid who whines all through gym class and tries to be cool... But we all ignore him. It's really kinda odd, you here all about cliques(sp?) and such in highschool, well so far they have yet to surface.

Originally Posted by Neko--

The band King Diamond isn't classified as Black Metal. Mercyful Fate is, but the King's other band isn't. It's technically only Heavy Metal...

I wasn't saying that King Diamond's other band is Black Metal, I was saying that the band Mercyful Fate, and especially King Diamond when he was IN Mercyful Fate, greatly influenced early Black Metal.

Originally Posted by Zgirl

anyways that's very sad to hear AJ, and all of it is ture... thankfully I can be really open about it on the internet along with my anime hobbies without people saying I watch kiddy shows and cartoon porn. -_-
people at my school are very hateful, and it's a shame they are to dense to except that differe people have different hobbies.. > >

ps. as horrible as this sounds... I'm happy I'm not the only one with this problem... ^ ^;; it's been nice finally being able to talk about it. X_x

That's what I like about the internet, you can find geeks like you who share the same interests. And ZU is such a great place, it's relatively safe to chat about hobbies / clothes / music without getting labeled becuase of the safe climate the mods keep. Thanks guys!

The only time someone has tried to label me, they just called me a misfit because they couldn't think of anything. I dress in old navy partly because whatever and partly because my mom wouldn't let me buy anything else if I wanted. I hang out with the "Goths" who are goth because they:

dye their hair
Like Anime

And those are the only two reasons. They are not depressed, if anything they have ADHD.

Originally Posted by Dark_Jedi_1714

The only time someone has tried to label me, they just called me a misfit because they couldn't think of anything. I dress in old navy partly because whatever and partly because my mom wouldn't let me buy anything else if I wanted. I hang out with the "Goths" who are goth because they:

dye their hair
Like Anime

And those are the only two reasons. They are not depressed, if anything they have ADHD.

Who in the hell doesn't have adhd now adays? It's all because of tv and the radio you know. That's how people learn to tune things out.

Anyway... Totally off subject my bad.

I have adhd! ^_______^

anyways.. did you just say peopair....le think your friends are "gothic" because they like anime..? O_o and dye there hair?

::shakes head and walks away::

btw one time I was called gothic because I drew a picture from my chobits manga...

so very sad what people think these days...

I am one of those in-between people. I have friends that are considered "goth", jocks, punks, preps, and nerds. You can usually tell what type of interests a person has by what they wear, i.e. someone wearing a "Taking Back Sunday" t-shirt is probably part of the emo group, but I don't let what the person's interests are decide what they are like as a person.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned which is the only dominant label around my school is being a steak, meathead or anything along those lines. Not that it all matters in the end, there's not really any groups in total because those thigns don't typically hold anyone back from being cool around eachother.

The biggest sterotype I get is that my school is a 'fag factory' being an all boys school with most being upper-middle to upper class. But it's easy enough to shrug off.

I am a skater. Thats what I've been for about 16 months now. Everyone knows it at my school. I am one of the best in my grade, I do not lie. Though at the beginning of the year some girl thought I was a goth cause I wore black pants. o_O I usually wear a white t-shirt with some blue jeans. But, meh. Labels do suck, but I don't really mind.

I've been labeled many things, though some of them not to my face, I still know, and it's not fun, because people are so judgemental. At my school, we're not very judgemental, since we're a really small school. If we wanna be labeled something, we let each other know, and if we want it to stop, same thing. A nice-ish school really.
But out in public: >.< I don't really like talking to people I don't know, due to past experiences, and I tend to wear black out in public, and I have black hair, and I never smile unless I'm with my friends or have a ton of energy I'd never use in public, so some people label me a goth, which I hate, since:
1. People give me the weirdest stares (so I stare at them weird back! Wait, that's probably a reason why I get stared at.
2. I'm the exact opposite when I'm with my friends.
Yeah, labels suck.