Labels

[MortifiedPenguins]

Seriously, whats up with you people.

Why do do highschoolers and whoever the fuck else seem to have the need to label themselves or others someone that so ....stupid.

As we have seen in the wonderfull thread titled, Pissed off Emo Chick, this is what labels do to people.

You people seem to forget your own origninality and simply label yourselves some bullshit generalization.

Oh, I'm a Punk Skater, I'm a hippie(thats 60 years late) I'm Emo, I'm goth.

Seriously people, grow the fuck up.

Your not a label, your a person.

[SockRape]

I label myself as a penis

[EyelessArchfiend]

At 11/16/06 10:06 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: Oh, I'm a Punk Skater, I'm a hippie(thats 60 years late) I'm Emo, I'm goth.

40* years.

Anyway, people label themselves so they can feel like one with the "in-crowd", i suppose.

[Randominator]

tbh suicide cults need to become more popular in the 12-15 age bracket atm

[BirthofaNova]

You won't change anyone with this post...unfortunately. Good point, though.

[Resist-Refuse]

Everyone has labeled themselves at one point, whether you/they like it or not. I just did, therefore i fucking suck. Anyways, you were all fourteen at one point, and probably wanted to fit into a category then. I'll admit that I am ignorant and very self-conscious.

[Timmy]

I don't think that most people do it to themselves, they just happen to hang with friends who have similar interests, and then outsiders call them a cliq and label them. I don't know if its true, but I can't imagine anyone views themselves as suicidal emo kids, they just happen to dress a certain way or listen to certain bands and then everyone else assumes that they fall into one cookie-cutter catagory or another. No one is like, 'wow, i just want to be a robot clone that perfectly represents a general stereotype!' - their behavior may be altered after a few years or being 'that emo kid' but on the inside, they still feel like they have individual thoughts and desires.

[CleansingFlame]

Yep, If you don't label yourself, then everyone else will label you something worse. Something along the lines of that.

[LTmatt]

Your not a label, your a person.

* You're

If you're going to say we're "labeling" ourselves, then don't make a spelling error and make yourself look like a fucking whore. </3

[Crag]

oh and what is this? it's a zwinkeys add, more labeling, this time in a dumbass overwhored website, hurrah!

[MortifiedPenguins]

At 11/16/06 10:14 PM, LTmatt wrote:

If you're going to say we're "labeling" ourselves, then don't make a spelling error and make yourself look like a fucking whore. </3

When a person lacks an actually defense they resort to an Ad Hominem defense with spelling.

The point still stands, by labeling yourselves, you lose your basic humanity of identity.

[Extremewookie]

Now you're stereotyping us by saying we stereotype ourselves!

[Saxturbation]

At 11/16/06 10:08 PM, EyelessArchfiend wrote:

At 11/16/06 10:06 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: Oh, I'm a Punk Skater, I'm a hippie(thats 60 years late) I'm Emo, I'm goth.

40* years.

Anyway, people label themselves so they can feel like one with the "in-crowd", i suppose.

Yeah that's why all the people smoke dope so the can be "stoners"

[ScissorHead]

I'm happy I dont label. To people I look "Goth" or "Punk" and then I say I hate metal, they say "Zike zomgosh!

[Mr-Contradiction]

nice idea, but it wont get thru to the younger generation until you destroy television, and all other forms of mass media.

start with mtv and myspace, theyr the root cause of conformity in modern society

[PenisClown]

At 11/16/06 11:03 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: The point still stands, by labeling yourselves, you lose your basic humanity of identity.

No, you're identified by the social group you belong to and socialise with.

Incorrect labeling or wannabe labeling is what's wrong.

[NimbleElephant]

I'm a hardass.

[MortifiedPenguins]

At 11/16/06 11:05 PM, Extremewookie wrote: Now you're stereotyping us by saying we stereotype ourselves!

I stereotyped nowhere.

I'm mearly wondering where the logic of stereotyping comes in with social fads.

[reality-check7]

"Labels" are how society works, it's just a way of finding people who are like you. They don't hurt anybody, and they've been around forever, so why complain?

[MortifiedPenguins]

At 11/16/06 11:16 PM, reality-check7 wrote: "Labels" are how society works, it's just a way of finding people who are like you. They don't hurt anybody, and they've been around forever, so why complain?

Because simply accepting what is there when something could be better is idiocy.

Edmund Burke once said , " All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing".

That is what this is.

You do not need a label to find people that are similar to you, you do not even need similar people to be your friends.

Living in a heterozygeous friendship is good for your own development.

[Earfetish]

They're just trying to establish some form of identity. Those years are all about forming identity. They grow out of it. The funny thing about emos is, it takes them longer.

[MortifiedPenguins]

At 11/16/06 11:54 PM, Earfetish wrote: They're just trying to establish some form of identity. Those years are all about forming identity. They grow out of it. The funny thing about emos is, it takes them longer.

Maybe thats true. Maybe not, in either sense of the word though, it isn't an identity.

What your outer characterisitics and what people percieve you as, doesn't define who you are.

It is your morals, your characteristics and your inner standings that do.