posers at my school

idk what to categorise this as. this is mostly a rant that i've had on my mind for some time now. but like. i consider myself to be alternative. i don't put a specific label on my fashion, but i dress WAY different than others, and i have the political views.

there are instances where i've unknowingly befriended posers for a bit and then eventually discovered their true colours.

one of my good friends for a while at school was really into like, dark and spooky stuff and even made alternative music! but, her political views were utter dogshit. she's a trans girl, but she believed that queer people shouldn't be represented in media?? and a lot of her other views were like. very right-leaning. like. i know queer republicans exist, but they really don't belong in alternative spaces. you can argue that thinking that way is gatekeep-y, but the alternative scene has always been like that. you gotta have the views. i mean, you can get uninvolved with politics and still be alt, but she was like. VERY much a righty. which is very, as i said, not alternative at all.

there's also a guy in my math class who calls himself goth. but he's a cisgender straight guy who says f****t and r****d (both in an insulting way) and he doesn't even dress goth! he just wears like. those basketball shorts that every normie dude wears and like. spooky shirts/music shirts and red/black sneakers. and he's very sexist! when i was going through my scene kid phase and i was presenting more girly, he told me that he believed that i was a poser and that i listened to pop music. and one time, i was pasting an image of the cartoon "kappa mikey" onto a powerpoint for an assignment in a class we had together one time and he made a snarky comment about two of the girl characters that were shown on some promo art (even though the protag of the show is literally a dude???).

feel free to discuss this in the comments or tell me about some posers that you know. you could argue that these wouldn't be considered posers, but being a cisgender dude saying slurs in a negative light is 100% poser shit.