Quote:
Originally Posted by javabox
... framing it as an either/or proposition is not going to work. The conventional categories themselves do not work.
|
You are absolutely right: framing it as an either/or
does not work. I would contend that it should not work; in fact, I don't want it to work, because it leads us right back to labeling, or -- as you put it -- "conventional categories."
No one could rationally deny that there is a point in labels and categorization: it serves to make easier the understanding that all of us seek. But it has such a horrid downside.
What joy there is in coming around to just being who you are without anyone else defining it.