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i think microlabeling queer identities does more harm than good, but what i take issue with is the fact that a lot of the arguments against microlabels revolve around “cishet ppl won’t take us seriously!!”
i frankly don’t give a fuck if the cishets take us seriously.
i frankly don’t give a fuck if the cishets take us seriously.
what i do care about is that there is a rich and beautiful history of love, community, and resistance among lesbians, gay ppl, bisexuals, trans ppl, and nonbinary ppl. that same history does not exist for pansexuality, omnisexuality, demisexuality, etc.
when you micromanage identities, you alienate yourself from that history of the community. you ignore years of struggle and love for a hyperspecific label that only chronically online people will recognize.
when i was younger, i was told that i had to identify every aspect of my sexuality specifically. that led me to identifying as panromantic asexual. aside from the fact that the split attraction model is insanely problematic,
i wasn’t asexual, i was just 14, and i wasn’t pan, i was bi. i had just bought into the belief that bisexuality is inherently limiting. these micro identities harm us as a community because they foster alienation and split people apart based on technicalities.
i’m not gonna police anyone’s identity, but i would just urge people to consider this when they feel that need to label every aspect of themselves. anyways queer liberation will happen in our lifetimes and fuck inclusion in cishet oppressive structures.
