For a very long time I would respond to questions about my sexuality with “I don’t like labels”. I wasn’t being glib or evasive, I just didn’t like how diminishing it was to reduce my entire life’s experience and decisions to one word. I tend to interpret the more creative labels people come up with in the same vein. For me, trying to enforce a rigid definition on other people’s self-labelling misses the point entirely.
For a very long time I would respond to questions about my sexuality with “I don’t like labels”. I wasn’t being glib or evasive, I just didn’t like how diminishing it was to reduce my entire life’s experience and decisions to one word. I tend to interpret the more creative labels people come up with in the same vein. For me, trying to enforce a rigid definition on other people’s self-labelling misses the point entirely.