Teen Gothic

Hello. I'm doing an assignment for school about misconceptions or stereotypes about the goth community and how they affect us as a community. I would like to see what misconceptions you would all like to see be discussed more often or are harmful, but others may not see it as such. Also, I might use your responses in my essay and I'm happy to post it here after I've completed it. 🙂 Obvi I will credit and mention those who's points I may use in the essay. 🙂

Edit: Also how do you all think these misconceptions impact us as a community? Thank you to everyone who responded to my post! I will be asking those who made a particularly detailed point to use their comments in my essay. Thank you!

Hi! I have been getting a lot into music that resembles Strawberry Switchblade and their sound, I don’t think of this genre as goth but always see Strawberry Switchblade in goth spaces and sometimes spoken of as a goth band, but I don’t regard 80s/ 90s indie music like that as goth, So my question is: is strawberry Switchblade a goth band (or is it just because they look awesome that they are in goth spaces) and if so; What makes them a goth band that does not make other similar bands of the 80s and 90s goth? Did they have a place in the evolution of goth?