Why are we the ones?
Date Friday, March 29, 2024 - 05:05 AM PST
Topic Experiences


Last friday I didn't go to Madrid to the Goth clubs as usual. I just decided to stay in Torrejon, where I live, with a couple of goth friends of mine. It all went well, we stayed in a friend's bar until she closed, had some beers, then moved to another.
When we were coming out of this bar, at about 5:30 AM or so (yes, the nights are that long down here, XD), I saw three or four men harrassing a girl. She was trying to escape but one of them had a grip on her arm, grabbed her hair, threw her to the floor while yelling "you, bitch" and kicked her. His friends gathered around. Just five meters away, about 30 people waited in line to get into the bar I was going to, under the strict eye of the pub's gargantuan doorkeeper.

I didn't think. I walked to them and said something like, "Uh, guys, let's cool down a minute shall we? Let her go" in the most unthreatening way these words can be uttered. I am not Feral, I am not even half Feral. I am a godamned pacifist. I didn't even raise my hand to touch them (I had a book in it, anyway)

Next thing I knew someone had kicked me in the head and I was being beaten on the ground. I saw the girl run for it, at least she made it. I ended up in hospital, of course, from where I was released today. A concussion, a black eye, a broken nose, two dislocated ribs, and numerous bruises and contusions were the price to be paid for my "chivalrious" act. Not to mention my dearly beloved pocket watch and the suit I was wearing.

Well, I'm O.K. with that. Perhaps I asked for it and I shouldn't have poked my nose in. But the point is not this, the point is that nobody, NOBODY of the so called "normal" people around moved a finger to help, not me, but her. They were 30, and the doorkeeper is huge and according to Spanish law responsible for what happens to the pub's clients within 15 meters of it. It had the be the only so called "antisocial", "werid", "eeire" and so-on Goth around to intervene and try to do something (my friends were all girls, in case you wonder, and not of the Bettie_x or Callei type)

I don't know why am I so pissed off about that. I am a goth, proud to be a goth, and I should not be surprised at having to despise "others". But the fact is that I am infuriated that nobody tried to help at all. Not help me, I insist, I guess that was my fault and that you should not act like a knight gallant unless you are armed and armored as a knight (and on horseback), but her, who was obviously inocent and unable to defend herself... I don't care it's a she, it might have been a he and I would have been just as furious about the whole situation. How can people who call themselves "civilized", who look down at others as many Europeans do, and moreover Spanish ones, who are supposed to have this vein of Quixotism in us, not help the defenseless in that situation? How can they just pretend that it is not happening? My, they can close their eyes to the distant suffering of the hungry in Zaire, I can understand that (not approve, but understand). But when abuse and injustice happen just at your side, how can you stay hand in hand? Without even saying a fucking word? When you are about 8 to 1?

I just can't understand it. I'm really beginning to lose all faith in mankind. And that's what scares me most.

Arthegarn

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