PinkPanthers (I’m asking all my favorite LGBT blogs… Labels: Are they oppressive? Necessary? Unnecessary? Empowering? When you identify yourself as a certain gender and/or under a certain sexual orientation, are you liberating yourself or are you actually restricting yourself to the boundaries of your “identity”? Just wanted to know what you think. If you’re interested in my take, feel free to visit my tumblr.)
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avenirinconnu asked: I'm asking all my favorite LGBT blogs...

Labels: Are they oppressive? Necessary? Unnecessary? Empowering? When you identify yourself as a certain gender and/or under a certain sexual orientation, are you liberating yourself or are you actually restricting yourself to the boundaries of your “identity”?

Just wanted to know what you think.

If you're interested in my take, feel free to visit my tumblr.


Answer:

While i leave this question open for my fellow pinkpanthers operators to differ in their opinion, I [shatteredseasons] happen to believe that labels are only oppressive or negative if you allow them to oppress or harm you.  However, for myself personally i have always found myself too complex and fluctuating to ever be described by any label, so i suppose you would say i find them limiting because there is so much more to me than one label could ever describe.  

i encourage my fellow blog managers to include their input as well.

as always- with love,

-Maatty <3

— 2 years ago