Am not a Goth, currently don't know any Goths, but have met and talked with some in the past -- they struck me as a hell of a lot like folks. The ones I talked to were really pretty nice, and not nearly as f***ed up as the media likes to portray them.

Everybody wants to "fit in" -- the Goths, methinks, have just found a way to identify themselves that the "mainstream" culture is a little uncomfortable with. But they're human, with human wants, needs, desires, feelings, etc., for all that.

Alex