(July 1, 2016 at 8:01 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:

(July 1, 2016 at 7:33 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I hear plenty of them but don't fear them. They cause more laughter than anger.

It's an easy way for people to pigeon hole others. Simplifies things for them/me.

EP, you are "arrogant offensive cyclothymic". (based on your participation patterns here) Like your hole?

What?

Labels don't scare me. People use them as shorthand all the time.

So long as someone treats me decently, their assumptions about me are just that ... assumptions. The surprise when they learn the emptiness of their assumptions is often a moment of laughter for the both of us.

(July 1, 2016 at 3:51 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Have you ever feared a label, at any point in your life? That is, have you ever identified as something that you at some point thought some groups of people would resent for whatever reason and which is why you subsequently decided to more often than not withhold that information, just for the sake of your public image?

For example, have you ever been ashamed about being an atheist and so modified your behaviour in a certain way just to avoid the subject?

Any discussion revolving even tangentially around the subject matter alluded at here is welcome, of course. Let not my inability to write OPs stop you.

I've never been ashamed to be an atheist but I have modified my behavior in order to avoid the subject sometimes purely to avoid a long boring conversation of attempted persuasion by a religious person.

I identify myself as a bit of a pervert, and I rarely talk to family or work colleagues about that.

(July 2, 2016 at 3:07 am)paulpablo Wrote: have modified my behavior in order to avoid the subject sometimes purely to avoid a long boring conversation of attempted persuasion by a religious person.

I identify myself as a bit of a pervert, and I rarely talk to family or work colleagues about that.

No probs man ...Just don't tell the priest! You'll just encourage the bastard!

I think we're all perverts in our hearts of hearts.

(July 1, 2016 at 3:51 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Have you ever feared a label, at any point in your life? That is, have you ever identified as something that you at some point thought some groups of people would resent for whatever reason and which is why you subsequently decided to more often than not withhold that information, just for the sake of your public image?

For example, have you ever been ashamed about being an atheist and so modified your behaviour in a certain way just to avoid the subject?

Any discussion revolving even tangentially around the subject matter alluded at here is welcome, of course. Let not my inability to write OPs stop you.

Yep, my most feared label is feminist. I think I technically am one but I wouldn't tell anyone outside this forum ever. In fact, if the subject is brought up irl I usually try to leave the room asap.

I'm a feminist too but I think egalitarian is a better label. I'm only a feminist in the very technical sense of: I support women's rights. But duh. I support everyone's rights. So it's not a very useful label and I think it would be a bad idea to go around saying I'm a feminist in case people think I'm the Anti-Pool.

People are very judgemental about the label and quick to throw you in with the extremists and the SJWs and I'm neither.

(July 2, 2016 at 3:12 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: I think we're all perverts in our hearts of hearts.

Unless we're so vanilla we turn into a strawberry shortcake. I don't know how that works but I just wanted to say it anyway.

(July 2, 2016 at 3:31 am)Losty Wrote: People are very judgemental about the label and quick to throw you in with the extremists and the SJWs and I'm neither.

Yep. Anyone who supports women's rights is technically a feminist.

If these fuckers would know how to use a dictionary and stop defining the word "feminism" by judging groups of feminist extremists and SJWs and saying "That's feminism" this wouldn't be a problem.