Originally Posted by
Jodie_Lynn
Straight. Gay. Bisexual. Pansexual. Asexual. Non-binary, genderfluid, genderqueer. White. Black. Yellow. Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, Atheist.
These are all just convenient labels that people can stick onto other people, so that they can classify them in their head.
The labels allow people to put others into a preconceived, presupposed category so that they don't have to think about that person as a person.
Oh, he's gay? That means he... ( insert perceptions about gays here )
Oh, she's black? That means... ( insert perceptions about blacks here )
Most people have perceptions about other groups, not based on real life experience, but rather on what they have been told, or taught to think about those groups.
Even within this thread, I see sweeping generalizations about groups, when everyone here should realize that no two members of this forum share the exact same path, motivations, drives, or experiences. Yes, we have lots of similarities, but overall, we are all clumped under the CD/TG umbrella.
So it is highly amusing to see some of the members here exhibit the same sort of myopic stereotyping of other groups.
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