[rainbowvomit]

Alright I've got to get this off my chest. This happened to me a few days ago, and I jsut can't seem to shake it.

The other day I was sitting in my classroom doing school work, being a good student, and these two girls behind me start talking about music. They started saying that they liked this artist and that, then they asked me what I liked to listen to. I guess they asked only because I'm a new kid at me school or something, but that doesn't matter. I turned around and said "Well I like all sorts of music. But I really like electronic techno stuff." I was smiling because techno is awesome, but they gave me this wierd look-like I was crazy or something. Then they asked if I had ever been to a rave. I smiled again and said yeah, a few. They looked like I had just slapped them or something.

We were silent for a second and I finally asked "What?" Then they looked back and forth at eachother and said to me "You don't look like a drug addict." I gave them this look of WTF!?! and one of the girls said "I just never would have expected you to like that sort of stuff."

At this point I got where she was going. I don't look like a raver, I'll give her that. I wear nicer clothes than most people and I look like an A student, I sit with my back straight and I'm always trying to look my best. I don't see why that means I can't be someone who loves to dance and party? But that's not what upsets me the most.

Anyway, So I said to her (with a smile) "Well not all ravers are "drug addicts". We just have that bad reputation."

She stared at me for awhile and said "So you've done E before, right?"

Now I wasn't hiding my anger anymore. I turned around completely and gave her this bad look. "You can't be serious?" I said.

She kept looking at me like I was crazy and said "So, what's it like?" She was smiling by this point and I was about to say someting else but the teacher had come over and heard her ranting about E. she was a preppy girl so she had that pitchy voice. Eww.

But what really upset me was that I have to look like a drug addict to enjoy a good party. And I can't do that when I wear nice clothes. Later I made some comment to her about how the cheap rags she wore weren't good enough to wash my floor. She didn't like that too much.

[sharkly17shogun]

Some people just don't understand how our culture works. Don't let them get to you just because they've never known the complete pleasure of a DJ bringing hundreds of people to emotional climax simultaneously, whether drugs are involved or not.
It's good that you tried to educate them. I'm sorry they didn't listen and you didn't have enough time to enlighten them.
-PLUR

[Blakc ninja]

When I first started going to raves people thought I was gay (the homosexual kind).

I've invited people who say, "I don't do drugs and everyone there are tripping on drugs"

"Rave people are weird" and other stupid stereotypes.



My advice. Separate raves from the "drug scene" if you do drugs and you do drugs and you talk about it with raves you are ruining us. So shut the fuck up and just call yourself a drugie and not a raver.

Maybe someone should start a group on the site that advocates people who don't do drugs at raves or consider taking drugs as part of rave culture. I'd join that.

[SparkieSpun]

I get that a fair bit too, except people now think I'm a heavy user, because I say that I'd rather a friend spend 10-25 bucks on a pill instead of 50 on booze. But its the last year of highschool and I don't really care what people think.

There is a 'Straight edge' group on this site...

[Jebus Christ]

You probably could have handled that in a nicer way...

Ravers get a bad wrap.. If you are going tell people that you go to raves or that you listen to techno then be prepared to take the consequences. Its not cool that we get hated on but its just a matter of fact that if you tell people you listen to techno that a lot of them are going to stereotype you and think things about you.. especially since you told them techno.. If you had told them that you listened to trance or DnB it might have been a bit different. But even then they would still probably stereotype you as being a drugged out raver.

But yeah, PLUR... You can either change peoples attidues by confronting them with anger or by confronting them in a more polite way but still getting your point across. I would like to think that most ravers would do it the more peaceful way.

[dg21]

Fuck her! Thats so freakin stupid that too many people have that idea about us. Unfortunately, she's not the only one like that. All I can say is brush it off as much as you can and keep doing what you love. It hurts and its frustrating, but YOU know you're a raver and thats all that matters. (And we know you're a raver 2!) If I was in your position, i'd focus on showing what is and isnt a raver, ie raver=plur, not raver=drug addict. Stereotypes suck and theres not much you can do to change that, but what ive found is that just ignoring it wastes less energy than trying to change it.

[XxStarDreamsxX]

I would have handled it pretty much the same way minus the whole your rags are to cheap to wash my floor with- BUT thats me =P.

WE do get a bad rap, but at the same time if you are into the lifestyle you are going to be labeled that way- I just like everyone else has had to put up with that at one point in time in their life =\.

Does it suck?- YES
Is it right?- NO

But remember its not just US that are getting labeled, its the blacks, the mexicans etc.,- WE all have to live with a label, whether it be good or bad =\ it sucks either way =\



In my other notes-- I had to put up with that as well did my little rave friends i guess you could say- GRANTED they (the ones in my school) are all sXe- i would say 1 out of 12 of them have EVER touched a drug in their life, and thats just me guessing that he did. Granted YES I was into the influences BUT I was into that before the rave scene was brought upon me- SO yeah, its not just hte rave scene in my case it was the punk/rock/grunge scene that brought me into it..lol

[ArC]

that happens to me alot, but i usually get into this whole deal that ends up something like this.

the usual confrontation happens when people ask about my music, and apparently it shocks them that im a hardstyle addict and not listening to my chemical romance or other emotional scene boy bands

then they start talking about e, saying people that listen to that do that drug

but alas, i tell them that they didnt looked like the kind of people who slept with the teacher

thier like, wtf

so i reply, well you wear nice clothes and have good grades, so you must sleep with the teachers (it helps if you talk to them as if you were speaking to an 8 year old)

then they usually band together to make fun of me, which consequently is very dangerous idea, as i usually repeat everything they say out loud and laugh when they laugh, and then i start the whole "well i heard from this person that you did this,,, etc etc" which ends with me listening to hardstyle and them fending for themselves against the rest of the kids

sigh

god i cant wait till highschool ends

[XxStarDreamsxX]

http://wdef.com/news/health_news_ecs...r_ptsd/11/2008

Shove that in their face =P.. muahhaa,, see thats something id do- id shove some research in their face and then step on their toe =)

[Siler]

I love those people...

Those whom say we are drug addicts...
those whom say we have no motivation or aspirations in this life...


those who think we are the failures of society, because slowly, EDM is taking over this country, this lifestyle is sucking in more youths by the hour, and soon, it will be all that is around...


And when these kinda people sit back and realize that they are going to end up surrounded by what they dislike, I will be there to say

I told you, We are a collective community, and though we are not all drug users, some of us are, and either way of the coin, this world is ours...