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genderqueer: ladybambino: (via queersecrets) I wish that people would stop using the term ‘labels’.  ALL WORDS ARE LABELS.  IN ORDER TO CONVEY ANY SORT OF INFORMATION TO ANYONE YOU HAVE TO USE WORDS AKA LABELS.  IF YOU WISH TO LIVE IN AN UNINFORMED SOCIETY THEN COOL. NO WORDS/LABELS NEEDED.  I know that people who say they don’t want labels are well meaning and are trying to get at a real problem but they are simplifying the problem.  The problem isn’t with words but with a lack of words.  Our society tries to get people to explain their identity by using one restrictive word rather than many because our society doesn’t give a shit about individual identities.  So instead of saying “labels are bad!”  we should be advocate the use of more labels (words) in order to better privilege individual identities.  and if something isn’t complicated, then there is a large chance that it is not grounded in reality. you miss the point completely. by using a word or words to define a quality, a feeling, an orientation, anything really, you limit the essence of that which you are trying to explain or relate. words and definitions themselves are limits to whatever one is attempting to communicate to another person. no matter what number of words i use, it will never fully explain to another person how my sexuality and gender operate. they are both extremely complicated, situationally dependent, and i feel, ineffable. i agree that we need to use and create more words to try to explain ourselves, but don’t call someone out for oversimplifying by choosing not to use “labels,” especially when using more words is doing just the same, oversimplifying the problem with a simplified solution.

genderqueer:

ladybambino:

(via queersecrets)

I wish that people would stop using the term ‘labels’.  ALL WORDS ARE LABELS.  IN ORDER TO CONVEY ANY SORT OF INFORMATION TO ANYONE YOU HAVE TO USE WORDS AKA LABELS.  IF YOU WISH TO LIVE IN AN UNINFORMED SOCIETY THEN COOL. NO WORDS/LABELS NEEDED.  I know that people who say they don’t want labels are well meaning and are trying to get at a real problem but they are simplifying the problem.  The problem isn’t with words but with a lack of words.  Our society tries to get people to explain their identity by using one restrictive word rather than many because our society doesn’t give a shit about individual identities.  So instead of saying “labels are bad!”  we should be advocate the use of more labels (words) in order to better privilege individual identities.  and if something isn’t complicated, then there is a large chance that it is not grounded in reality.

you miss the point completely. by using a word or words to define a quality, a feeling, an orientation, anything really, you limit the essence of that which you are trying to explain or relate. words and definitions themselves are limits to whatever one is attempting to communicate to another person. no matter what number of words i use, it will never fully explain to another person how my sexuality and gender operate. they are both extremely complicated, situationally dependent, and i feel, ineffable. i agree that we need to use and create more words to try to explain ourselves, but don’t call someone out for oversimplifying by choosing not to use “labels,” especially when using more words is doing just the same, oversimplifying the problem with a simplified solution.