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.
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Replying to @DaniRabaiotti
Not a phase for me, but yeah fair enough.
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The really explicit stuff was in London during my PhD. "Are you depressed? Is that why you dress that way?" and on and on.
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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.
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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
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Replying to @DaniRabaiotti @o_guest
I'm sad to hear that extended into your professional life though. Those people are idiots and really need to grow up
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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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I know your experience is different but it's actually a little hard for me to talk about mine as a goth in the UK. People tend to think it doesn't happen, but it does.
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Replying to @o_guest @DaniRabaiotti
I get dismissed a lot. It's exhausting. Just a few years ago a kid, around 10, pretended to punch me in the street while saying "fuck goths" in Hackney.
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I know you don't mean it that way but you often reply when I talk about my experiences with how it's really good where you grew up. It was really good for being alternative where I grew up too. I never received any abuse for being goth.
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Replying to @o_guest @DaniRabaiotti
I think it's been really hard for me with respect to this. I stopped being a goth for about 6 years.
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