Einojuhani Rautavaara, a Finnish composer, said, "If an artist is not a Modernist when he is young, he has no heart. And if he is a Modernist when he is old, he has no brain." This can be applied to rebellion/non-conformity. These young, self-proclaimed "Non-conformists," that listen to HIM, Slipknot, etc, are posers, not goths. I'm not very old (20, 21 in two weeks) but I'm not a little teenager. I have no reason to not conform or rebell against anything. These kids just want to look different, and like someone else said, do it for the sake of doing it. I like the style, but the exact type of clothes that I wear, I never see these teens ever wearing. I like the victorian style dresses, and just normal skirts, and when I'm lazy, band shirts
(I love my Opeth, Dark Funeral and Agothodaimon shirts
)
I never wear any fishnet or PVC shit, it looks rediculous in my opinion. I'm just a normal person, not depressed or suicidal, wearing the attire that I like, not the costume I want to rebell with
Plus I listen to real metal (Opeth, Tristania, Dark Tranquillity, Carcass etc) and on occasion Goth/Death rock (Specimen, Voodoo Church, Christian Death etc)
I suppose that's the difference from poser.