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What is your stance on pushing labels onto others?
I’m curious what other people’s opinions on sexualities and labels are. Do you think it’s wrong to assume/push sexualities onto others? Do you think sexualities/labels are something we need? What are your experiences and thoughts?
As someone who does not identify as any specific sexuality (my personal belief that love doesn’t need to be labeled), I’ve often had people misinterpret that and assume I just didn’t know what my sexuality was and try to insist on “finding” a sexuality for me. This of course aggravated me greatly...but interestingly enough, I had more issues (homophobia, gatekeeping, invalidation, ect.) ,both within the LGBTQ+ community and outside, when I identified as a certain sexuality as opposed to just being transparent.
you get lost on how different you are so labels are for us to identify ourselves with, so yes we do need them to establish a clear representation. especially given the discrimination, hate crime and all the struggle, through these hardships communities come together to support each other because no one is there to give you resources, hear you or ma...... reply
Labels aren’t necessary, but if one has the right to not identify by one set label, one also has the right to identify by a label. Most labels aren’t inherently bad, and give a sort a euphoria to the user to know that they’ve found something that makes them understand themselves more. Labels are there to not completely explain everything abou...... reply
I think if you want to be labeled, that's fine and if you don't want to be labeled that's fine too. In terms of labeling other people/characters I generally hate it because there are a lot of people who take their assumptions on a higher level than a headcanon and treat it like actual canon. I find this is particularly a problem with people/charact...... reply
As far as pushing labels onto other people? Hell no I think that's fucked up but I do think labels to a degree are useful as long as you as your own person label yourself if that makes sense but at a young age our parents label us but as we grow we can then change those labels such as our sexuality, gender, and religion
So as far as labels go I t...... reply
Aack I forgot to write this in the question, but while I myself am transparent I wholeheartedly support those who embrace labels. Your life is your own, after all (⌒▽⌒) reply
whether or not they're str8 or part of the lgbtq+ community, if someone is uncomfortable w labels and would like to go unlabeled, it's totally fine. the same w it's opposite. if someone likes labels and they label themselves as this or that, leave them be and move on. everything's a social construct anyway. it ain't anyone's business but that perso...... 1 reply
well you shouldn't really be labelling others, unless they tell you. i personally don't have a good experiences with sexualities, and try to stray away from the topic, because of how hard it has been to find my own and actually stick with it, just due to how confusing and hard they are. reply
