Wtf labeling?

Question

Why do people get so mad at labeling? THEY CHOOSE to look, or act the way they want. Its really only the g*y little emos that get so pissed. All the emos do this so they are not "conformist" haha get it?

Answer 1

first off emos are people too...and its not that hard to see why people hate labeling...say you call someone g*y right? well what if everyone starts to call him g*y? how would that make you feel? Now say someone is called popular while another is called a loner...these people will either ignore them (not likely) or will try to discredit it...if they don't try to discredit it, which in societies eyes proves the label, they will try to conform to it, making them miserable and depressed... ishould know i've been called weird, emo, lez, and many other unsavorab;e names...can you see where that gets to be a problem? I've been  one of the luckty ones and can ignore it but others  (the majority) cannot therefore adding to the depression and hurt caused by labeling....

Answer 2

I personally don't understand labeling because people are so complex and different from one another that it doesn't make sense to classify people based on only one general characteristic, unless of course there is some practical need for a label, which there are some situations in which there is a practical need for labeling but those are not usually the instances in which people get upset about being lableled. I think people should just lighten up, and not be so afraid of people that are "different."

Answer 3

Yeah, I really don't care about labels. I hardly even notice them most of the time. I agree with you on the emos getting pissed about it. Some "emos" call themselves emos and get pissed of when a prep calls them an "emo". I don't get it.

Answer 4

I agree with chuckles, people dislike labeling because people are far to complex to be classified as one group or another.  Really, I don't think that the "emo" kids,as you call them, are getting angry and going online to ask why everyone likes labeling.

Answer 5

I think it's just because people don't like being put in a box. Calling somebody "emo" or something is making them out to be a steriotype of what being emo is, which could be something they don't particularly like.

Answer 6

labeling is the insecurity of the unconscious mind