I tell ya, by the standards of, you know, the median person, I’m pretty darn woke. By the standards of other woke people, I’m still rather woke! I can talk about Kyriarchy, or the lasting effects of imperialism on nations in the Sahel, or the particular struggles of transgender individuals (made easier by being, technically, one myself) all the live long day. But I tell ya, sometimes I doubt that, because I just saw a post from someone called a “Coiner” outlining what I’m pretty sure was a romantic orientation. Now, it was not one I’ve heard of before, (but as I am familiar with the English language, I’d imagine it had recently been “coined” by the posting individual) but neither in fact were nearly any of the words in the body text of that post. And I know microlabels! I can name a good 7/8ths of the ones depicted in that one Holy Roman Empire Coat of Arms but Queer image, you know the one, I can rattle off a host of other ones which I have the misfortune to belong to, but this Coiner chap had from what I can gather been making a microlabel based off of a different microlabel. (and it wouldn’t surprise me if that one in turn had emerged from the same process) And, you know, at some point, do you really need that much specificity? Surely there is a level at which a little tiny bit of generalizing is ok, no? The greatest theologians of history did a little tiny bit of generalizing, (read anything by St. Augustine, you can tell he got bored at points) and a label, fundamentally, tells other people about you, hence the name. You already know about you, being you and all. If nobody knows what the label you use means, such is its specificity, is it helpful? Sure, you could explain what it means, but then… why not just say “hey I feel these things and/or am this way” instead? Skip the middleman if it doesn’t help. You’re going to explain every time anyway, just get straight to that part!
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