grassangel | in which Chloe responds to things she sees in people’s profiles

Sometimes I randomly visit people’s profiles for they have cool icons I wish to snag with credit. Sometimes I am a nosy parker and look at their interests, friends, etc.
And then sometimes I go “Hey, they support similar things to me!” and I kind of wish to add those interests to my interests list so other people could do the same to me.

But then I look at the list again and decide no, I won’t add polyamory or lgbt or intersexuality to my interests because while I do believe these things have the right to exist and be spoken about, I don’t support the labels applied or associated with them.
It’s not because I think it’s bad people use such words to define things like that because how else are they going to describe things? It’s just I really don’t like the perpetuation of labels like that, even if they are ‘reclaimed’.

Sounds a bit Jack Harkness-like in philosophy, but I honestly would much rather call everyone people-sexual and stop having everyone ARGUE about what sexuality is right or wrong.

People are people and it doesn’t matter if they’re transgendered or straight or bi or whatever. They are people.
Same applies if they’re Jewish or Pagan or Hindu. They’re people first, it doesn’t matter what they choose to believe in. Labels don’t matter. Labels shouldn’t be used to measure a person. They shouldn’t be used to judge. (Well… almost. I find that political opinions are a great measure of whether I like someone or not and although not the only factor, certainly the only one which you could call a ‘label’.)

If you’ve got to hate something, hate the doctrine or the practises, not the people. I have a horrid grudge against the Catholic interpretation of the Bible, but I don’t hate Catholics. You can hate gay sex, just not the gays. You can hate consumerism, but not consumerists just because they want stuff. You could even hate Japanese culture because you hate taking your shoes off inside, but don’t hate the Japanese!

So, once again, people are people. It doesn’t matter who they love or what they believe in or where they come from. They are people, a human being, a homo sapiens just like you. There is only a tiny genetic difference between you and them. Their life is worth just as much as yours no matter what opinions they hold or what they eat.

I don’t like labels.
I’m a Homo sapiens, I’m people-sexual, I believe in Humans, I come from Earth. Got that?
But I still want to put ‘polyamory’, ‘inter-sexual’ and ‘bisexuality’ under my interests.