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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Everyone is an individual, and in more ways than just gender or sexual orientation. I think trying to label people is harmful. People have long sought to come to conclusions about people based on race, appearance or nationality. I don't see that as positive. I think it's good for everyone to learn that they operate in a deeply ingrained social construct of what it means to be male or female, and to challenge themselves to escape that, but I don't think more/new buckets is necessarily the answer.
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Then stop labelling people and just treat them like people? This doesn’t seem to require some large social movement.
The labels (or definitions, or categories) are helpful in finding words to describe what is already there or what someone is feeling. They also have the benefit of pre-built communities where people share similar experiences and similar feelings as you do.
I don’t see myself as existing in a bucket, but if you see me as a letter and think I should conform to everything that letter bucket entails, that’s on you, right? It has nothing to do with me. Why do I have to forgo identifying a certain kind of way because you can’t see past that identity and just see me as a person?
I don’t know, I guess I find something kind of funny about it. LGBTQ people take the labels back and find use in them helping to understand how they feel and form community, turning the labels into a benefit, and then people who originally created the labels to demean and segregate those people say “oh, well actually it’s probably best you don’t have any labels at all because we’re all beautiful individuals.”