Gretel Ehrlich's About Men: The Goth Subculture

Gretel Ehrlich, author of About Men wrote, “If a rancher or cowboy has been thought of as a man’s man - laconic, hard-drinking, inscrutable - there’s almost no place in which the balancing between male and female, manliness and femininity, can be more natural.” The truth is that cowboys are nurtures and midwives that like to take care of people and animals from ranches. What people have interpreted as tenacious and vigorous has been camouflaging the tender and sweet side that cowboys. The tough look of a cowboy could make anyone that doesn’t know a cowboy see them as being gruff and not caring people. Whereas, a misconception is a view of someone based on untruths a stereotype is an exaggerated truth that is used to distinguish a certain group based on the act of a member of the group. It is a …show more content…
The goth culture is extremely diverse, on visual art, fashion, music, and body aesthetics. Goth people look at the aspects of life from different points of view that may seem depressing. These particular characteristics are what made me want to learn more about the goth group’s fashion, music and activities. Due to the strange way that the goth group dresses and portrays life as, is making people portray this group as being worshipers of the devil, scary, and people who like to inflict on self-harm and to hurt others that are not in the goth group. Most people come to this conclusion due to the fact that they do not understand their subculture. In reality most goths are actually nice people with a good sense of humor. I have actually heard at school conversations where a group of goths talk about how they are part of a community service group and what they plan to do to have fun on the weekends. This group should be better understood because they are not scary and evil as they seem to be. Even though they dress in a different way than most people they are normal