
Who gets the right to define you? To label you? Is that right solely your own, or does it belong in some measure to the culture with which you identify? I've considered this question for a long time, and I've concluded that there's no easy answer.
I've long been an advocate for the principle of self-identification: If you choose to identify yourself in specific terms, who are others to challenge it? But things really aren't that simple, are they? What about frauds who have ulterior motives for adopting a label? What about people who don't really understand what the label means?
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Nope, not at all awkward, Steve
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Not awkward at all, Samaire. I'm sitting right across the table from you!
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Well isn't this an awkward meeting
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Thanks, Joe.
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This is some of the best work I've seen on the topic.