Labels in my generation (millennial) and why they are worthless.

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OK, so in today's "progressive" times and ideas, everyone has had the thought that in order to bring us all together we need as many labels and words as possible to make us all different. Does anyone see the logic in this, or am I the only one who is confused. First let me explain what I mean. One of the bigger discussions going on are about gender pronouns, gender identity, and being gay\ lesbian\ trans and how people who differentiate themselves from the "gender normative" are viewed as different and unequal. (Like with the whole bathroom rights for trans people thing that happened).

"What exactly are you talking about?" You may be asking, and here is the long of it as I see it. We all live on the planet Earth, on this planet there are 2 primary forms of life, Biological and natural (by that I mean plants.) There are sections in each that are different, biological is what I will focus on. For biological there are 2 subsections, animal and insect. Each section is vastly different biologically then the other. In the animals section there are mammals. In mammals there are deer, turkey, cows, gophers, racoons, hamsters, goats, monkeys, and humans. Mammals biologically are usually vastly different except for some similarities, one of which being the biological sexes, (female and male). The reason these biological sexes exist is for reproductive purposes, you can not reproduce without both of them together. ( that is how babies are made) Now, when it comes to pronouns for humans (She or He) it is supposed to only be used for stating the obvious of one is females and one is male. No added baggage, stereotypes, gender roles or what have you. At least that's how I have always treated it. Problem is that people tend to associate "She" and "He" with the portrayed stereotypes shown on television and movies and then reject those stereotypes because they don't represent who that person is so they create a new label for themselves and gets upset when no one uses it or understands it. Well, first of all stereotypes do not reflect real peoples personality's, a stereotype is only used for characters on TV shows and movies so the writers don't have to create actual characters, and pretty soon writing characters that go against the normal stereotypes will in itself become stereotypical.

"Um, are you at your point yet? I've already wrote a strongly worded tweet with emojis about this." You ask. Well hold on, I'm nearly there. I'm not going to say anything like "if you are born a woman or man then that's who you are and you can't change!" First, you can never really change your entire biology except for how you look outside. Second, what you are born as does not define who you are, and don't let people tell you otherwise. You become your own person as you grow and experience life, you learn what's right and wrong for you and hopefully learn that what is right for you may not be right for others. And we all have to learn that everyone is different and that's what makes us all the same. Putting labels on everybody to let everyone know how different you or another person is, is not the best idea because if you tell people you are different from them they will treat you different. Plus labels in my mind are just a back words way of not letting people be themselves, but forcing them to all gather under one umbrella. For example, I don't like LGBTQ...

"OMG, HOMMOPHOBE!TRANSPHOBE!" you yell. But hold on, Im not talking about the people, I'm talking about the LABELS. LESBIAN, GAY, BI, TRANS, QUEER. first of all, why should we call people Lesbian, gay, or bi for loving who they love? Do we REALLY need a label for that or can we just say "those two are in love" regardless of biological sex. And calling people Trans like "your a trans women\man" is sorta backwards intuitive to what these people want. Transgender (if you don't know) is a person born of one biological sex, but identifies as and is more comfortable being the opposite biological sex. So why would we go out of our way to call someone trans when if they are a man or women, we should call them what they want. Example, Blaire white (on YouTube) is a transgender male who transitioned to being a woman. So instead of referring to her as a transgender man or women, I'll just call her a women because that's what she wants, that simple really. And queer? Come on, isn't that supposed to be an insulting slang? Or have they changed definitions to fit their needs again? So, on that I propose they change LGBTQ to PEOPLE because every person is already looking for love from other people and discovering who they are as a person, plus its more INCLUSIVE. Everyone loves that word now a days.

Lastly, hopefully more people then less understand that a doctor does not assign genders, they tell the parents the child's biological sex and again your biological sex does not define you, only what you are and what you are only matters in the scheme of reproducing. So just be yourself. Also, don't force your ideals down peoples throats because people will more likely then not reject what they are choking on. (Unless you're into that kinda thing) if people see you as more similar to them they will grow to accept you. That's one reason why I think protests and rioting are stupid most of the time. Also, my generation, please understand that nothing is free and you ate not entitled to whatever you want. You want something then you have to work for it. I'm 21, I've been working for 2 years and I'm glad I never went to college, safe spaces, not understanding the difference between an intellectual space and a home ( college is not a home, it is where you go to gather the skills you want or need to go out and find your home.) Money is very important if you want to live because you can buy food, water, home, bed, clothes. And biological sex wise I am male but I have never been attracted to anyone, I don't see anyone as more then friends and that doesn't need a label, I'm just me. And you don't need a label, you are just you.

So, I went a bit off track there. Sorry about that. But at times I tend to feel very old when I see people my age act like children. ESPECIALLY when they are older then me