no disrespect to all the fine gals here on RB with their pretty body art n'stuff, but, just gotta point out the reality of what was a originally a subculture that got co-opted by a mainstream that saw a good opportunity for large level $ucce$$.

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local,created & run by my friend & not sponsored by corporations. if that sort of thing matters to you.

You mean, like straights co-opted the disco scene from gays?

As for suicide girl types, I find them more arousing to look at, than to be with.

Be the change
you wish to see

If we were taking this from an ethnic signifier read,for example, Gwen Stefani's bindi wearing and white people buying "tribal" and Asian character tattoos would be a next door neighbor analogy to what I'm talking about (obviously the latter being more problematic than the co-opting of "punk"-- but still pretty yuck).

Dick Hebdige's 1979 classic "Subculture:The Meaning of Style" probably has some good stuff I could reference here but my copy is in my NYC storage locker.