My mother can be such a fucking dumbass.
I was kind of a gothy teenager - not hugely into it, but I liked Nine Inch Nails and Manson, wore a lot of black, read a lot of Sylvia Plath and loved dark fiction, created weird B&W effects on portraits in my darkroom. My mother and I fought endlessly about this and I was constantly being denied black clothes or forced to change, and if I bought anything too goth she would make me return it. She used to bitch me out for being pale and insisted that I try to "get some sun," even though I don't tan, I just burn. One day while I was at school she threw almost my entire wardrobe into plastic bags and gave it all to Goodwill!
Recently we were chatting about this because I still like to wear a lot of black, I still like NIN and Manson and Plath, and I love black eyeliner etc. (She doesn't know I'm a domme though, haha.) She insists that she did right by disallowing gothy stuff in her house. I said it's just the stuff I like, it has nothing to do with anything else and I still like it, and she said, "That's fine, you're an adult now. But any mother who lets her kid be a GOTH" - she said the word like it was going to make her vomit - "is guilty of child abuse, in my opinion. Kids shouldn't be dressing like that or listening to that stuff."
I pointed out that she let my brother grow his hair long because his grades were good, even though she didn't like it, and she said there's a difference between long hair and goth. Evidently goth subculture is the only one that's evil and should be disallowed to teens. She had no justification for this position, she just kept insisting that parents have a duty not to let their kids be goth.
Is this common or is my mother just an idiot? I wish Sirona could've been my mother, LOL!



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... if I got married. Which btw I have NO desire to, but IF I did... What color did you wear?

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