Goths and Homeless are Rejected

In Thomas Hine's "Goths in Tomorrowland" he describes how there are few safe places where teens are welcome. Disneyland, one of the minority places left, teen goths were beginning to take over. Disneyland's safety was one of the attractions for these goths. Many of the teens had not even been goths when their parents dropped them off at the edge of the parking lot. Rather, they changed into their black and sometimes gender-bending garments, applied their white makeup accented with black eyeliner and gray blush-on (Hine 68). The word "teenager" is in question whether if it is sufficient to encompass all the different teens. The goths that invaded Tomorrowland are examples of another kind of diversity (70). They have become a stereotypical group such as "jocks", "preps", "freaks", "geeks", etc. Teens will go to extremes in order to express themselves and create space for them to be their own person but it is seen that they are only escaping themselves but in reality their is no escaping. In Mike Davis' "Fortress Los Angleles: The Militarization of Urban Space" he explains how Los Angeles tries to keep the underclass out of its city. They attempt this by offering few public lavatories then any other major North American city. Also, there is a lack of outside water sources for drinking or washing. City leaders periodically propose schemes for removing indigents en masse -self consiously adopting the idiom of the cold war, has promoted the "containment" of the homeless in Skid Row (Davis 278). Skid Row is has become probably the most dangerous ten blocks in the world. The police play a major role in the Los Angeles city. They stop visitors to be frisked and the police routinely oreder residents back into their apartments at night. The domestic life is subjected to constant police scrutiny (280).