What I mean by this is you don't really identify by labels, just kind of mix and match. If I had to describe my scene, this would be it:  an MGMT hippie-boomer-stoner, anti-authoritarian punk with an emo like sense of darkness, with "Your Guardian Angel+Niki FM" sort of a romantic side, all while glow sticking at a Ramstein/Vinyshakerz rave? That just totally sums me up in one sentence I think. Does anyone else identify in this sort of way?

Yeah, that's kind of the reason I gave up on labels.

as an almost pan romantic asexual inter-gendered androgyne i think I blend labels a bit when trying to describe myself

i've never really known enough labels to manage that sort of thing, don't know what half that stuff means.

generally I just say a bit like winnie the pooh - they tend to get it.

Lol...winnie the pooh...i can totally see that fitting you (judging solely by the pic).

I've walked on the fringe of numerous subcultures in my life (mainly because I find such things interesting), but I can't say I've ever really identified with any of them fully enough to adopt the labels.

I'd prefer something a bit more dashing, but oh well.

I don't identify as anything anymore.

In the past I've felt like a cross between adolph hitler and jesus christ. That kind of range provides no place to drop anchor.


Mostly I'm just a harmless goofy kid who will never fit in anywhere or belong anywhere other than here amongst my droogies.

How about Padington bear pica? He has a spiffy yellow jacket.

I'm find of Rupert the bears black and red check pants. I would love a pair of those.

I don't label blend... for that matter I don't identify as much of anything. Human, perhaps. Of indeterminate gender and spirituality....

Z

I don't know if I use labels per se, but I do use vocabulary to describe how I identify myself. The vocabulary is limiting, yes, but it's the only real tool I have.

Use the words to describe me (bisexual, non-binary gender variant, gender fluid, genderflux, cross dresser) as I think these words help me better understand myself. The words are not me, but they help me know me.

I think our language has not caught up with us, the transgendered, in western society.  We lack specific words to describe ourselves with.

If you see my note under my avatar, it is an attempt to describe what I am but lacking clear labels to do it with.

A little more clarification on what I was trying to say above. I really don't think of labels as an identity, for example I don't identify as androgyne or transgender, however I use them as reasonable descriptors of myself as being non binary gender.

Z

Quote from: Nicky on August 25, 2009, 06:44:08 PM
If you see my note under my avatar, it is an attempt to describe what I am but lacking clear labels to do it with.

Yeah, like the way I use the song quote in my signature file I think is a good way to describe me.

I'm not quite sure there's enough labels in the world to quite describe me! 

I'm.. unique!

The label thing has always vexed me. A lot of the standard labels would probably describe what I consider myself but the list would be long and contradictory. Just in the last year I've settled into the androgyne label. I read and consider other's struggle with labels a well and try to understand and see if where they are fits.
If I was to try to use the common labels, today I would be a crossdressing ,M to F (non op), Asexual Androgyne or close to it. But tommorrow................

I think the need for labels comes from the teenage crowd, because at that age people need to find out who they really are. Labels are in away, a means to identify with a group of similar individuals. However, I think that trying to come up with one word to describe a person, and even more so if it carries a generic meaning that stands for an entire group of people, is almost impossible.

So, if you ask me, give up on labels and just let people judge for themselves.

Quote from: Mr. Fox on August 22, 2009, 07:23:14 PM
Yeah, that's kind of the reason I gave up on labels.

I TOTALLY agree with you.  By the way, I love your Pete Burns avatar.

Quote from: Zythyra on August 25, 2009, 04:22:37 PM
I don't identify as much of anything.

I'm with Zythyra. I'm just me.

Everytime I see Sammy's name in a topic I get hungry - I start thinking chicken sandwiches with lettuce and mayo, or hot bacon sandwiches with avocado and tomato, or ham and pickles and chillies, ham and mustard, roast lamb with gravy