Labels

Probably repeating, but I'm lazy and don't read everything. Sorry.
I think labelling is a way to make people feel better about themselves or more popular or whatever. I sort of label people in my mind, but I don't call them that or make fun of them behind their backs or anything like that. It's like the first word that comes to mind when I first see/meet people.
It is a way of bullying if used in the wrong way because people do use it offensively. And I guess it's a social status thing, too.

I hate labels. I think they are immature. You shouldn't judge someone on first impressions. You need to know the person before you stick a label on them.
Labeling is a form of verbal bullying, in my eyes. If someone is getting labeled something they aren't, it just lowers their self esteem. It can make someone very upset if they are sensitive to verbal abbuse.

Everyone gets so pissed when people hear about a prep/emo/goth/ or whatever hating eachother, but heres what I think.

If you truely want to be diffrent, your going to risk that. And no, not everyones going to hate you, but some people are.

If everyone didnt care, there would be a lot more emo people or goth, or whatever the stupid labels are. Its just based on clothing (usually.)

You arent getting the true "standing out" thing if you arent willing to stand up for what you believe in.

Tolerance is one of the best things you can have. If everyone was tolerant... THERE WOULD BE NO DIFFRENT.

If it was easy to be diffrent, nothing would be original!!!!

Albert Einstein was diffrent. He was so diffrent people thought he was retarted... but he wasnt. He proved his diffrence was a good thing. He showed them all.

And here's what I love about some people not being tolerant. After all they do, your going to turn out ok. After all they do, your still you. After all they do, they might even relize when there older how stupid they were, and how that ignorance is still around. Talk about being ashamed? ... At least to me.

So, be diffrent. When people push you around, fight back. Because you've got something they might never have.

Show them all.

I hate labels. can't people just be people?!? I mean yeah different people like different music and a have different personalities but do they need to be called one thing or the other. and usually when someone lives up to the label "emo" or "goth" or "prep", they are "posers" so then they don't actually belong to the label. Also when someone labels something they're thinking of the stereotype.

i hate this i always get labelled and its so annoying my friend get pissed off about it so much even though she labells people. if someone calls he an emo its bad but its ok for her to call them all she says is its different but i dont think it is, people should stop with labelling because we get judged by the way we dress or talk when they dont actually know us.

^ i hate people like that. its frusterating because they know how much it pisses them off yet they do it to everyone. They are just thinking about themselves and not about other peoples feelings.

i think that if someone is acctually going to take the time to label bands, people, etc. then they have no life. i'm labeled as crazy/emo/punk/freak.
i have a name that can sum it all up, Jackie (my name clearly)
and i applaud anyone who says screw labels, i dont need one

Hm, labels aren't as bad as actual bullying. But I hate being called emo by random people who pass me in the halls. I am guilty of it though, as I tend to label chavs and preps. So I'm not sure, really.

((I guess there was no point in this post then...))

last year i went all slashy emo over it...but i stopped.

gemstonefromabove:

I totally think that theres no need for us all to be categorised.

its not like we're animals, we dont need to be placed in different groups.

everyone is an indivdual, and no one can 100% to a label thats applied to them any way.

people should just be people. with their own style and tastes, that can be a mixture of anything they want and not be categorised.

BE TRUE TO YOURSELF!!!

I definitly agree.

i think sterotyping is pretty unavoidable. everyone does it to a certain degree. it's like people saying they don't lie. I DON'T BUY THAT FOR ONE SECOND.

Labeling is annoying as hell. It's just another way for people to center someone out and make assumptions about them due to what they look like or how they act, etc., never knowing what they're like on the inside. People need to grow the hell up really...

As annoying it may be to be called emo or scene or whatever all the time, you have to kind of accept that labels come about because they generally hold some truths. I mean, most get exaggerated, and people should never judge (like, "all emos cut themselves).

But when people go around wearing tight jeans and flipping their black fringe and listening to screamo and then complain about being called emo, that pisses me off.

We lable people because we like to organise things, we like to feel like we understand the world and it's under controll. It doesn't really annoy me when people call me emo becuse it's only ever really ignorant people that do it and they're just trying to understand people a bit better.

If it was like "you stupid emo! go cut your wrists!" that woud piss me off, but it doesn't happen. and it's not like people are segregated according to their label. You know, this is the prep part of the resturaunt.

Trends start because someone does something, other people think it's cool more peope copy, eventually, lots of people do it and it's noticable enough for people to come up with a name for it. If you don't want to be picked on for belonging to a certain label, then dress differently, act differently, don't be whatever they're teasing you for being.

sorry if that sounds bitchy, but i think people bring these things on themselves.