Since everyone seems to be making those annoying label threads I thought I'd make a serious one.

Do you think that if these labels were gone people would be more free to be themselves? This includes a range of labels from straight/bi/gay to masc/fem to transgender/transvestite and anything in between.

I think if people didn't try to fit into just one little section of what society has constructed everything would be more fluid and no one would feel judged and cornered into a specific label.

Thoughts?

I actually agree with this, we really shouldn't need labels. But with the way society is nowadays more or less everything is labelled .

yes, mostly because of the stereotypes that come with every label.

Yes, I hate those labels so much, we are becoming some stereotypical groups, I'm all here for individuality. Labeling is the reason racism and homophobia exist as well

Especially within the lgbt community.. there's so many subcategories of labels because people don't feel they don't fit into an existing one or feel they're a part of many that they create their own groups. Tis a shame.

wouldn't really change much. People would put limitations on themselves if none are present for them

Explain. I don't consider labels limitations but rather dividers, two different things.

Yes. People feel so much pressure to label themselves down to a T just to please society. People will shy away from doing things because it's "gay" or because it's too girly or manly. If a person who identifies as gay feels an attraction to somebody of the opposite sex one time they're worrying that they aren't allowed to call themselves gay anymore. It'd be nice if there were no sexuality labels at all, no gay or straight or bisexual or whatever, and people could just date whoever they wanted and that would be that and you wouldn't have to sit here and announce that you're whatever-sexual. This is an improbable ideal though and I know it. Humans just love to label everything.

I don't think it would matter. People seem to naturally categorize groups of people. Judgement is not necessarily a bad thing, but like most things is only bad in extreme cases.

Humans just seek for patterns in their lives and it does make life easier. Let's say Jessica doesn't want to be labeled as a girl. People will find some label to put Jessica in. Jessica's unlabeled persona is actually labeled. Poor Jessica!!!

Yes. It would be better (I guess) if there is no label. Unfortunately labeling is just how society works.

I'm not saying get rid of labels, obviously we would have the FACTS like age, race, height. But things of sexual identity don't need labels IMO. There aren't enough labels for everyone, each person is unique and creating more is just messy.

This post is going in the path of what I was talking about, so I'll expand on it.

People need to differentiate themselves from others in order to feel secure - that is what labels do automatically for you. Without labels people will end up doing the same thing in the end; it's inevitable for people to divide themselves.

You all would go ******* insane without labels, which is why I don't believe people in general when they talk about "living without labels"

mte

Yes, people wouldnt feel so lost/confused/pressured if they dont perfectly fit a label, people rarely do. But unfortunately, this world can't handle things they dont fully understand & have to label people to feel comfortable.

Right, but then we have things like outgoing, fun, creative, artistic for things like that where they don't necessarily have a positive or negative connotation. They're just there.

That's true. But if you're going to be anti-label, why not abolish them all? It doesn't make much sense to forbid labels in one aspect of life but approve of them in another. Labels have one and one purpose only: to differentiate people for further classification. How that effects someone is up to their discretion, because labels generally aren't bad unless you make them out to be.

I wouldn't necessarily say forbid, but if they just didn't have a connotation that could be interpreted in positive or negative ways would be best. That way no one would fear the way they live. But of course this is far from realistic. In time I'm sure it will get to the point where the labels are more accepted and they don't have negative connotations to limit people from being themselves.