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Originally Posted by Rosie
I think labels are very useful to describe people, what sort of things they like or what kind of people they are. Describing someone as a "goth" who listens to bauhaus who wears black eyeliner and dresses in all kinds of weird clothing wouldn't be very out of place at all.
But it shouldn't work the other way around - you shouldn't worry about being easily describable by other people. It's not your fault.
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Oh, agreed, labels are useful for certain purposes, but a person oughtn't work to fit one, a label ought to have to work to fit the person.
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A SPIDER sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.
--Emily Dickinson
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