A lot of labels are purposely offensive and belittling
Labelling people who are even slightly different to what is considered ‘normal’ marginalises and isolates them. They become depressed, have low self-esteem, they experience hopelessness and despair. It's time to change the story...
Because everyone, regardless of their sexual identity, deserves to live an extraordinary life...
1.I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.
2.Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labelling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.Melissa Leo
3.When are we going to stop labelling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we say, 'out heterosexual actor' when we refer to Tom Hanks? Bryan Batt
4. I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labelling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
5.For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labelling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.
6.“I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.” Janet Fitch
7.Once you label me, you negate me. Soren Kierkegaard
8. People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
9.Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.
10. Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
11.I always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labelled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
12. I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self-left.
