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Labels are meant to help you navigate and exist in the world. If it's achieving that, it's the right label!
No, they can be useful for helping a person find their identity but first and foremost they're descriptors. You shouldn't be claiming to people that you're blue eyed if you don't have blue eyes even if you've lived your whole life thinking you did until just recently after looking in the mirror for the first time.
Let’s use your example.
“You shouldn’t claim you have blue eyes”
Why not? Who’s it hurting? I wouldn’t correct someone if they said they had blue eyes. I’d just roll with it.
You stupid motherfucker bro
I guess I just won the argument then lol if you’re best rebuttals is calling me stupid I just have really destroyed your argument lol
I've been destroyed with facts and logic, I kneel
It doesn't sound like calling yourself blue eyed in that circumstance would help you exist in and navigate the world...
Only if you consider lying to yourself and others helpful for navigating the world
That's why sexuality labels and identity labels are best when they're self chosen. People get to decide for themselves what helps and what fits. And part of that whole process is dealing with other people offering their opinions, whether you asked for them or not. That stuff impacts the labels people choose and/or the labels people choose to share.
Right but self choosing a label doesn't mean that you define what that label means or if it applies to you. Telling someone the label they have chosen is applicable if they personally think it is appropriate is stupid when they've asked specifics about what exactly a label means and how it might apply in the context of their life.
As much as you may think otherwise, sexuality and identity labels aren't objective. They are subjective and self applied, because it doesn't matter what label you pick, or how clear cut you think it is, there is someone, somewhere, who uses it differently. There is no single "truth" when it comes to these things.
So yeah, picking a label that helps you navigate the world is the smart choice. Because if you're trying to pick a label based on some objectively true definition, you'll fail before you begin, because there is no such thing in this context
If the labels are subjective, how can my interpretation that you're using them wrong be wrong?
because labels are feelings and your feelings are wrong, or something, but you can't ever tell anyone else their feelings are wrong.
Real
That's what people do all the time and why the meaning of labels change over time.
Instead of immediately jumping to conclusions when you hear of a label, the proper reaction should be to just ask for more information and get to know the person more.
That's the difference between using labels as a tool, or as a discriminator.
Most labels aren’t as simple as physical descriptors.
I didn't say physical I only used it as my example
And your example didn't fit this situation, because it's a purely physical descriptor.
Okay? You shouldn't call yourself gay if you're not. Happy now?