Hey, who here thinks that labels are wrong? Who thinks you should judge people for how they look?
I think labels are wrong most of the time. You should label someone before you actually meet them, for all you know they could be a nice person. The story behind this is that I was labeled the other day when i was at the mall. Someone came up behind me and told me to go back to where i came from. I asked them what the heck they were talking about and they said that I looked pathetic. I dress really punk for anyone who wasnt sure. Do you think its right for people to do stuff like that? The guy didnt even know me.

I know for a fact that if i would have been wearing a miniskirt and tube top that never would have happened. I know that because thats how i used to dress, before stuff happened.

Okay, I hope this is the last time I'll need to say this, but I sincerely doubt it will be. If you dress like a prep, there's nothing wrong with people thinking that you're a prep. If you dress like a punk IT IS ONLY NATURAL AND GOOD THAT THEY WILL THINK YOU'RE A PUNK.

No one should be judged for how they NATURALLY look, or judged if they're face has been disfigured by trauma or something, but how you dress, have pierced yourself, have tatooed yourself, how you choose to do your hair, et cetera, is JUDGEABLE. That is who you are. There.

If you want to dress punkie, you probably are a punk. If you want to dress punkie, then the people have every right to think that you're a punk, because, once again, you probably are.

My sister went into a McDonalds wearing an apron, bonnet and full-length skirt (just back from a pioneer re-enactment) and she was actually entertained at how people were labeling her when they thought she couldn't hear them. It's funny.

My cousin walked down the street wearing stereo-typed polygamist clan clothes (she lives in Southern Utah) and she said it was loads of fun at the remarks she got.

If you dress a certain way, be prepared for the stereotypes that come with it. If you have tatoos and piercings all over you, I know that you don't care one iota about your body. If you are swearing, I'll know that you are a person without self-control.

GET USED TO IT. It's a good, natural thing to judge by what someone had decided to do.

It's karma.

i think labels are wrong because they could really be a nice person tryin to make friends in the world and you might judge them the wrong way and karma might come back on you plus only God can judge each and every one of us noone else.

dont get me wrong, im not saying that people should put labels on other people, but you have to understand that people automaticly get lumped together into categories that are labeled simply because of the way they live, so labels are inevitable, & trying to rid labels from society is only going to hinder free speach.

people who make lables for people are dipsticks.

i think that the misuse of labels is wrong, but i do not think that labels themselves are wrong. what i do think is wrong is when people keep changing words & labels or censoring words & labels just because they personaly disagree with them.

yeah, labels are kind of wrong. they're another form of being prejudice, but it's inevitable.

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Originally posted by Euterpe:
C'mon, we all make assumptions on a person in the first 5 seconds of knowing them.

I mean, come on. Every time I go to NYC, I get hollered at for wearing a Boston Red Sox hat. At Starbucks in Jersey, at the mall, everywhere.

Labels will happen whether you like it or not. The trick is not letting them define you, but you defining yourself.

I have spoken. Er, typed.

Couldnt have said it better myself.

Labels are human that's just the end of the story. Everyone does it everyday, you may swear, claim, promise, or yell you don't but you do. I do and like I said you do too. There's nothing you can do about it. Just be a good person and don't worry about it honestly. Don't let labels limit what you do and don't let them confine you from branching out and exploring things. It seems when you get put in a label and you cant get that label off of you, people start getting comfortable with it and they don't try new things or meet people not in that group. And never dislike people because of the label you put on them because thats really the problem, its not the name itself.

I dont think you should label how a person looks only becasue they could turn out to be a person you could hang out with. Its like the exoression "dont judge a book by its cover" . Some people label people and think they already know that person, their personality when in fact you dont know that person who could be a person you want to be friends with and have a good time with them.

here in india lots of people try wearing pants for the heck of it...and they look awful cause of that..its just a bad case of ignorance and wannabee mixed in an absolutely eye sorish way...i wonder what to say to such people...i mean they wear anything that fits them and most of them wear air tight pants that take a real effort to look at with a straight face..
then there is other category of students who come from villages to cities and try imitating people from the cities and end up wearing stuff that looks really awful..
i always wonder why wearing some dirty looking pants as oppsoed to a sensible traditional dress gives these people all the confidence in the world..

It's a natural tendency to make certain assumptions about people based on appearances, but what's wrong is dismissing people based on those first impressions. Of course, there are exceptions to just about everything, If someone appears to be darraigned then I might not want to get into a big conversation with him/her. Labels like prep and goth aren't particularly hurtful in my opinion, but at the same time making a big deal about whether someone shops at Hot Topic or Aeropostale is kind of immature.

Labels are perfectly fine and keep me from associating with coked out frat boys and getting mugged by the townies.

who thinks labels are wrong? dont we all? we still all have to deal with them dont we?

people that use labels are nothing more than insecure asses. No one should be labled, especially if you dont know them or they dont know you. everyone classifys me as a punk but i dontr classify myself as anything i have friends that are "preps" "jocks" "drama kids" "band geeks" "shanky people" and "goths" if someone is nice to me and wants to be my friend, im not going to be mean to them just because of what they look like or who they hang with./

If the labels hurt other people, then they're wrong.
But there are those people who get their lip pierced, throw on some eyeliner, a black t-shirt, and call themselves "emo."
Though not "wrong", it's definately stupid.

judging someone is deff wrong. labels are different though. sometimes you choose to be a label. its mostly how you dress.
anyway i don't label. i am me.

i do i really do think lables are wrong. i mean last year at school i was know as the druggie and depressed girl when i really was not depressed. i always just happen to come to school after getting high the night because and i had black cirlcs under my eyes. and i mean arg. and now this year im called the sporty preppy person. when i am not that neither. i really do hate lables. but i no one can really stop them and i mean everyone lables. i mean just today there was this new girl in one of my classes and she was wearing rainbows and had her hair pink and in pig tales. i mean everyone in my row was like wow look at her. i mean i honstely think its a normal thign for ever teenager to do. even though most of the time they are wrong but if they dont wnat to wait and see who you really are then they are not wroth being your friend at all. so i mean. thats all i really ahve to say.

C'mon, we all make assumptions on a person in the first 5 seconds of knowing them.

I mean, come on. Every time I go to NYC, I get hollered at for wearing a Boston Red Sox hat. At Starbucks in Jersey, at the mall, everywhere.

Labels will happen whether you like it or not. The trick is not letting them define you, but you defining yourself.

I have spoken. Er, typed.

I hate labels as much as the next person here but you really can't stop it from happening when i had to go to the mall to pick up somthing from someone i was wearing a G.B.H. t-shirt and a leather sleavless jacket type thing that i put spikes on and sewed on patches of bands I like such as The Exploited, Sex Pistols, Aus Rotten etc. and this big fat hick looks at me and says eww you emo. You just have to learn to ignore all their bull****.

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Originally posted by forevertears14:
Hey, who here thinks that labels are wrong? Who thinks you should judge people for how they look?
I think labels are wrong most of the time. You should label someone before you actually meet them, for all you know they could be a nice person. The story behind this is that I was labeled the other day when i was at the mall. Someone came up behind me and told me to go back to where i came from. I asked them what the heck they were talking about and they said that I looked pathetic. I dress really punk for anyone who wasnt sure. Do you think its right for people to do stuff like that? The guy didnt even know me.

I know for a fact that if i would have been wearing a miniskirt and tube top that never would have happened. I know that because thats how i used to dress, before stuff happened.

i totally agree