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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.
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
