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Let People Fucking Label You
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Replies: 28Last Post April 17, 2006 6:18pm by Loud Dog
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Stop saying "don't label me." Stop complaing that you're unique, that you don't fit into a peghole.

No one cares. Everyone labels everyone. We look at people, and we generalize. Because a lot of the time, it's right. All this bullshit about uniqueness has convinced us that labels are of the devil. They're not. Nine out of ten times, the kid with spiked hair, Left-Over Crack patches, and punk clothes is fine with drugs and leans to the left pretty hard politically. Sure, there are punk looking kids that don't fit that category. But not enough to stop categorizing. After all, what's the worst that happens? You assume that the person is something that they're not, and either they prove you wrong or they don't, in which case they probably don't deserve to be recognized as unique.

If you want to be seen as unique, act unique. People are going to immediately categorize you, because that's how our minds and society fucking work. If you don't like being put in a peghole, do something to set yourself aside from it, douche. Don't just tell people not to do what's natural and proper.


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hahaha very nice. i applaud you.

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I don't mind if they label me actually. They probably label me as the geeky looking guy who is intelligent but sucks at school, which I don't mind at all.
I try to show them what I am... and I guess they get the right message lol
And I do try to act unique. They might know me as the mysterious boy who wears the same jacet everyday. And when they see that boy explaining some scieitific thing in a way that makes them laugh, they label you. But I think YOU have the control on what other people might think of you when they see you. and as you said, You need to know how the people's minds work in order for you uto get the 'right' label.

(Edited by Too Imaginative Teen at 4:46 am on April 15, 2006)


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So basically basically your saying its ok to prejudge people? What if I was to say oh he must have aids, all gays have aids....Even though its not true, it would have the same effect.  Even if the label fits doesn't mean you have the right to point it out.  People can do what they want and dress how they want.  Does that mean that they should be pushed aside in to another category?  No, you can catergarize all you want.  But i do not do that.  Every person is different.  Not like we all think the same things...jeez

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Ehh I dont mind, generally.
If someone calls me a drama geek/ kid..... I say hell yes!
If someone calls me emo, I laugh.
If someone says I look calm and unemotional, I take it as a compliment.... even though its not true. At all.
And if someone calls me a ditzy boy crazy girl..... I prove them wrong.


Those are the ones that I get called, anyways.... only one of them is true. I mean... whoop dee doo...... so someone prejedged me..... we all do it, even if we dont mean to.


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Quote: from darkhearts at 10:42 pm on April 14, 2006

So basically basically your saying its ok to prejudge people? What if I was to say oh he must have aids, all gays have aids....Even though its not true, it would have the same effect.  Even if the label fits doesn't mean you have the right to point it out.  People can do what they want and dress how they want.  Does that mean that they should be pushed aside in to another category?  No, you can catergarize all you want.  But i do not do that.  Every person is different.  Not like we all think the same things...jeez

Guess what, babe?

I think generalizing somebody's health is pretty damn off topic. Any fucked up, Christian idiot would probably generalize a gay man having AIDs. But you know what? Some people, who do categorize, are probably smarter than that.

When I see skinny idiots with hair "eating their faces" I automatically hate them. Why? Because I fucking hate emos. They're all the same. They aren't unique.



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So basically basically your saying its ok to prejudge people?

Yes.


What if I was to say oh he must have aids, all gays have aids....Even though its not true, it would have the same effect.

Then you'd be wrong. Obviously.


Even if the label fits doesn't mean you have the right to point it out.

Sure you do. You have the right to point out whatever you'd like. If I want to say that you're probably a liberal, I can.

You're probably a liberal.

Could I be wrong? Sure. But it's my right to look at your statements on this thread and your sexuality and draw a conclusion from that, right or wrong.


People can do what they want and dress how they want.

And other people can pick up on the messages that their dress sends.


Does that mean that they should be pushed aside in to another category?

Who said anything about pushing people into a category? This is where my entire point lies. If I decide that as a bisexual with an anarchy symbol for an avatar you're a liberal, that doesn't do shit to you. It's just me picking up, correctly or incorrectly, on clues that you're giving me. Because that's logical. I certainly am open to the possibility that this is not true, because absolutes are stupid like that, but I also understand probability and refuse to ignore evidence because of some pathetic idea that everyone is independant of the image they display.


When I see skinny idiots with hair "eating their faces" I automatically hate them. Why? Because I fucking hate emos. They're all the same. They aren't unique.

LOL. Lovely.

(Edited by Wilder at 11:49 pm on April 14, 2006)


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Quote: from Wilder at 10:48 pm on April 14, 2006


So basically basically your saying its ok to prejudge people?

Yes.


What if I was to say oh he must have aids, all gays have aids....Even though its not true, it would have the same effect.

Then you'd be wrong. Obviously.


Even if the label fits doesn't mean you have the right to point it out.

Sure you do. You have the right to point out whatever you'd like. If I want to say that you're probably a liberal, I can.

You're probably a liberal.

Could I be wrong? Sure. But it's my right to look at your statements on this thread and your sexuality and draw a conclusion from that, right or wrong.


People can do what they want and dress how they want.

And other people can pick up on the messages that their dress sends.


Does that mean that they should be pushed aside in to another category?

Who said anything about pushing people into a category? This is where my entire point lies. If I decide that as a bisexual with an anarchy symbol for an avatar you're a liberal, that doesn't do shit to you. It's just me picking up, correctly or incorrectly, on clues that you're giving me. Because that's logical. I certainly am open to the possibility that this is not true, because absolutes are stupid like that, but I also understand probability and refuse to ignore evidence because of some pathetic idea that everyone is independant of the image they display.


When I see skinny idiots with hair "eating their faces" I automatically hate them. Why? Because I fucking hate emos. They're all the same. They aren't unique.

LOL. Lovely.

(Edited by Wilder at 11:49 pm on April 14, 2006)


haha i fucking love you.. especially the liberal part


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*clap clap clap*

I've always been pissed of by the whiney threads about this but I've never bothered to find the time to say it.

I salute you.

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Quote: from peachie750 at 8:40 pm on April 14, 2006

hahaha very nice. i applaud you.

Ditto

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Wilder, you remain my hero.

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Label me whatever the fuck you want, I don't care.

I'll label myself bitches.

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I 100% agree. People refusing to conform to labelling and claiming themselves to be "individual" or "alternative", or who have an emo haircut, slice their wrists, write an Internet blog full of heart-ache, photo-whore, dress in tight clothing and listen to whiney angsty music and then go mad at you for calling them emo (which they so fucking are) drive me absolutely crazy. I'LL LABEL IF I WANT TO LABEL, YO. And just because you don't like the label you fit under doesn't mean that you aren't one of the masses that you try to be.

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http://www.explosm.net/comics/173/";" target="_top">

Cyanide & Happiness @ http://www.explosm.net/";" target="_top">Explosm.net

Haha ^_^

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I found another one:

http://www.explosm.net/comics/246/";" target="_top">

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