A sub-culture/stereotype is as populer culture states in my book, if you confess to being a member of said stereotype then you must accept the fact that people will pin common labels on to you that they believe fit with said stereotype, e.g. all chavs drive around in pimped up corsa's wearing adidas. So don't bitch when you say your a goth and people say crap like "lol you a sweaty m8, i bet you like slipknot" sure it's ill-informed and pathetic but you only do the same thing to them.

The key is to just be yourself, I always find it funny when someone say's "I am a goth" and then someone comes out with "well you don't listen to angry music and have lots of piercings and shit" and they say "I can still be a goth without having all those things!" erh no, because your not a goth, your a you! deal with it....

I just felt like ranting because it seems to me that through it all people want to break away from the mainstream yet retain some level of acceptance. I just don't see how saying that your an Emo,goth,chav or townie etc is supposed to help with that. Especially when they just use it as a method of distancing themselves from people even further.

Tl;Dr Live your own god damn lives and don't bitch when people point out your not who you say you are, because your just a you and their's nothing wrong with that ^^