Excellent post Mr. Day. I think of butch, femme, papi and other descriptors as you said as identities. A woman spoke at a conference we went to and she said labels are what others apply to you and identites are what you use to express yourself. I thought this was a great way of putting it. Are labels and identities the same thing? I don't think they are.
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Originally Posted by Daywalker
I've been thinking about this a lot,
and I'm glad the question came up.
I wanted to say that with every label comes the dreaded stereotype.
Yet, if we do not have a way to differentiate with 'labels' things
get cloudy for some. I like to think of these categories
as 'descriptors' rather than labels.
Well the emerging generations of Studs, Ags, Aggressives, Machas
etc., also deal with being stereotyped within the Community.
Just like Butch folks, Femme folks and all under the rainbow folks have.
I have 2 links to share for thought
One is a U-TooB channel from StudzLife101.
http://www.youtube.com/user/StudzLife101?feature=watch
The other is this video...
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