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Straight Talking
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Name::straighttalker05
From::Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
I'm an avid dreamer. I have big ideas, and I'll probably take them somewhere. Watch this space. I want to present what I think - and not with words minced up into an acceptable platter. Some things need to be told straight - particularly gay rights. Particularly life in the closet, it's very nature means no one hears it. If they do it's usually tinted with nostalgia. I'm confident, I know what I like and what I don't. Please don't confuse this for arrogance. I'm probably more insecure then you imagine.
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Sunday, January 29, 2006

Label Conscious


In a society which encourages us to wear the most popular labels, to shop in the right stores and to trust what we recognise, is it any wonder we hasten to label everything we see?

Labels help us to order things. One label is good and another is bad. In the same way our ancestors realised red plants were nasty, we give names to those different to ourselves so that we can differentiate between them and us.

Calvin Klein is popular, so we buy their clothes. Ikea is where everyone else is going for their furniture nowadays, so we organise Ulster bus trips over. Everyone else defines a homosexual woman as a ‘dyke’, so we must too.

The attack on labels is uncoordinated; some oppose them entirely, crying ‘labels are for jars!’. Others embrace them as part of our culture, ‘Queer and Proud’. Some are offended by the mere suggestion they are a ‘fag’, while others laugh it off.

I admit to it myself, I can call myself a dyke, but that is no one else’s place to call me, unless they are particularly close.

“It’s all in how you say a thing” says Robert Frost. It’s all in who says a thing. It’s all in how you label a thing.

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5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

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Sun Jan 29, 11:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I find it hard to label myself in terms of sexuality sometimes. My friend, in full drunken mode, called me a part-time heterosexual. lol

Tue Jan 31, 03:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My friends think when I'm drunk I'm a part time bi.

However they're a wee bit wrong there.

Tue Jan 31, 08:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

yeah know what you mean bout 'dyke', i can call myself that but take offensive most other times as usually it's used as a derogatory term... prefer 'gay girl' really...

Wed Feb 01, 12:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hmmm.. don;t think my comment posted... anyway, 'dyke' is ok but 'gay girl' works best for me :-) or lesbo...

Wed Feb 01, 12:51:00 PM  

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