Love the goth appreciation. Some both in science (very sadly) and outside used to tell me I'd never make it "dressed this way".
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That's nice! I was bullied about my goth appearance in the UK and even more in UK science way more so than in high-school. So much so that for a few years I stopped being a goth.
Difference might be, I'm an immigrant, people hate goths in UK — in Cy everybody is a metal head.
I think it depends on part of the UK. There a huge goth and heavy metal culture in my home city - Birmingham - to the extent I think most people go through a goth phase.
That sucks though :(
Not a phase for me, but yeah fair enough.
I thought I'd be accepted in York due to Whitby not being that far etc etc. But not really.
The really explicit stuff was in London during my PhD. "Are you depressed? Is that why you dress that way?" and on and on.
A lot of factors at play. Afterwards during my first postdoc, in Oxford, people would tend to shower me with compliments on occasion. Age plays a role as much as anything. 
Sorry didnt mean to insinuate it was a phase! Just meant it means people back home are chill about goths. Yeah definitely. And more often than not the people hurling abuse are idiot teenagers. There used to be a big goth vs "chav" thing in the UK and people were really abusive
I'm sad to hear that extended into your professional life though. Those people are idiots and really need to grow up
The woman who did it the most, I suspect, had her own swathe of personal issues and while it was obviously an attempt at mobbing in the workplace and unacceptable, I kind of feel bad. Punching down that hard... Something must be really wrong. 
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