Self labels.

[rosalind_spencer]

i just say live and let live...accept yourself for who you are....who gives a crap what others think

you only have one life to live...why waste your time handing out labels when you should be enjoying your life  

[Spooky Wasabi Princess]

Labeling is fine. I don't know why there are always 50 threads on this s**t. It's incredibly redundent.  

[-Resurrected Writer-]

GilAskan

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I'm goth-er than Peter Murphy having bondage sex with Siouxsie Sioux.

And I don't say that proudly. I indulge more stereotypes than I'm proud to admit.

*Snicker* Including a gothier-than-thou attitude (even though that was completely fabricated xd nice work)  

[CrimsonSchib]

Labeling as a whole is kinda dumb.















... Silly preps.  

[GilAskan]

CrimsonSchib

Labeling as a whole is kinda dumb.

Labelling is the primary function of language.

We apple is a label we apply to a fruit. Fruit is a label we apply to a certain type of plant. So on and forth.  

[Isobel Bellamy]

Isn't it interesting that the metallers have no qualms whatsoever with what they would label themselves as, if anything proclaiming it as a thing to be proud of despite we being stereotyped as moronic beer swillers that like to beat the s**t out of people.........wait....that's actually very true of a lot of metallers...so..um...get back to me, metal-heads can only be trusted to think so far...  

[0-X-Yours_Truly-X-0]

waht gets on my nerves is when people who dont even know what they are saying try to label someone. like when a so called prep who dosnt even know what goth means ask someone if they are goth just cuz they wear black. you are who you are.  

[-Resurrected Writer-]

(darkest_hours)

waht gets on my nerves is when people who dont even know what they are saying try to label someone. like when a so called prep who dosnt even know what goth means ask someone if they are goth just cuz they wear black. you are who you are.

In a way it isn't their fault, because they're misinformed... but their ignorance unfortunately gets annoying after a while. stare  

[GilAskan]

Dead Ed

(darkest_hours)

waht gets on my nerves is when people who dont even know what they are saying try to label someone. like when a so called prep who dosnt even know what goth means ask someone if they are goth just cuz they wear black. you are who you are.

In a way it isn't their fault, because they're misinformed... but their ignorance unfortunately gets annoying after a while. stare

Indeed.

However, on the flipside, don't you imagine it's annoying that anyone who wears clean, mainstream fashion is immediately labelled "prep"?  

[CrimsonSchib]

"Human" is a label. And in most cases, it is label enough.  

[MyMoonlitDream]

It is my belief that those who label without thinking are those who were taught to do so. Not necessarily by their parents but by those around them. Odd comparison but it's kinda like how lots of people wear the clothes that are "in style" that's just what they're taught. I also agree that labeling is human nature. When we label things we make them more familiar, make them into something we know. Most fear the unknown; not on a concious level perhaps but the fear is stil their. Like fearing the dark. (I know many don't but that is most likely because they know it.) It's not really the dark that they fear but not knowing. People can't see in the dark and that is what scares them. Labeling something is a way of familiarizing yourself with it; it's a very common practice. [Random reference: In "Over the Hedge" the forest animals feared the hedge less after they named it.]  

[-Resurrected Writer-]

GilAskan

Dead Ed

(darkest_hours)

waht gets on my nerves is when people who dont even know what they are saying try to label someone. like when a so called prep who dosnt even know what goth means ask someone if they are goth just cuz they wear black. you are who you are.

In a way it isn't their fault, because they're misinformed... but their ignorance unfortunately gets annoying after a while. stare

Indeed.

However, on the flipside, don't you imagine it's annoying that anyone who wears clean, mainstream fashion is immediately labelled "prep"?

Yes, I can see it being annoying for them...
to be honest, (as most people say) most labels are only relevant in high school...
But for those like goth and emo, which are subcultures (the latter of which is however considered dead...), they are perfectly fine to use - so long as they are not used to mark specific personalities.

Prep, jock, and nerd are labels that do not apply to subcultures (except perhaps the last one...) and therefore aren't appropriate, in this regard.  

[MediaclCunt]

Chaos A.D.

yes labeling is okay, people just don't like being called what people percive them to be, it's human nature everyone does it, it's jsut people do it wrongly

Though you have bad grammar skills, I agree.  

[xShe Dreams Fiction]

Self labeling is DEFIANTLY better then just a group of people calling you something. I don't think you can be something if you don't truly feel you are it.  

[[-Alluring Enchantress-]]

I hate all lables, but hell, no one listens if you say "don't lable me, i'm just myself." Of course that may be the case but, no one listens. I don't self-lable, but i somtimes lable other people. It's only if i know them though. I never judge by ones appearance.

I think self lableing is better than people lableing somthing you may be offended by.

If you are being who you want to be then how can you be anything but that? The only real posers are people who act completely different when certain people are around or when they are alone.

The only thing i hate more than lables is the stereotypes to go with them.