- Female or a woman, girl occasionally
- Bisexual (often with a strong heterosexual preference)
- In a same-sex relationship/marriage
- Fat, occasionally curvaceous or voluptuous
- Agnostic or witch (or lapsed pagan)
- Liberal, Democrat, or progressive (pinko commie liberal is okay too, in jest!)
- Disabled or handicapped
I am not:
- A grrl, wimmin, womyn, cuntlovin lady (or somesuch nonsense I read once)
- Lesbian, gay, pansexual, queer
- In a gay, lesbian, or queer relationship/marriage
- Overweight, obese, chubby, chunky, fluffy, "more to love," etc.
- Stupid for not identifying as an atheist already
- Lefty
- Differently-abled or handi-capable
There's nothing wrong with the labels up there that I am not - they fit happily for plenty of people, and anyone should be able to call themselves whatever they want. They just don't describe me is all, so please label me accordingly.
This was an old post from my LiveJournal from last month, I believe, posted partly in response to this great article on fat semantics at Red No. 3. It unfortunately left out anything about bisexuals in the homosexual labels paragraphs and though I understand why, that always irks me somewhat. (Bisexuals seem to either get left out by the good guys, or pointed out in a negative way by the bad guys, so I guess I'd rather go with left out most of the time.)
Anyway, I felt the need to label myself here just to let everyone know who I believe I am :)
How do you all label yourselves?
7 comments:
I am:
Female, fat, bellydancer, science fiction writer, pagan, reader, NPR fan (mostly), Democrat, married, lover of The Shiny, intelligent, cruel, honest
AnonymousAndCo
I like your labels. I wish I could add bellydancer to mine. I've always been very attracted to it and even attempted it once. Wasn't too bad, but I should have kept it up.
Thank you for stopping by!
I really like this. I will probably talk about this today at my blog too. I tend to do these fairly tongue in cheek.
My Super Label:
Female, black, fat, short, busty, cranky, wanna be dancer, somewhat author, omnisexual, pervert.
It changes depending on my mood.
Nudiemuse! I like your cheeky labels!
Ones I should steal from you: short, busty, cranky, somewhat author, and pervert. Can we share?
Promise to head over to your blog and comment seriously soon. Thank you for stopping by!
We can share. However if you reach for my popcorn I might bight you. I am really obsessed with popcorn lately. It's almost obscene.
I was glad to stop by. You now live in my blog links folder since I have yet to figure out how to use my google reader properly.
I probably lose geek points for that huh? :)
Hey there, thanks for linking to my MS blog. I'm a lesbian, Army Veteran, geek, disabled, retired, liberal Latina woman. Talk about labels! :) I never minded them too much because I found no other way to describe me.
Take care of yourself Ruth and stay well.
Diana
Nudiemuse: No, you don't lose geek points at all. I have no idea how to make that thing work either. Also, I understand about the popcorn. I may have my gf go make me some in the Stir Crazy later. Popcorn is a beautiful thing.
Diana: Hi! Glad to see you again! I've also never minded labels for the same reasons. And I'm glad my post brought so many people over to visit!
I'm attempting to stay well but a new exacerbation and sudden diplopia are making that difficult. However, your wishes mean a lot to me, so thank you :)
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