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[–]oofreesouloo⚡super lesbian⚡ 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Labels are very useful, ESPECIALLY when you're a minority. It's a practical way of letting people around us know something about us. For example, I'm also a lesbian and have known since I was a teenager. It was highly annoying to have everyone around me constantly asking me about boyfriends all the time or guys when I was not only totally uninterested in that but also wanted to express my interest in women. Saying "I'm a lesbian" is much easier than "I'm a woman sexually attracted to other woman and not sexually attracted to men" for example. Saying you're homosexual is exactly the same thing as saying you're a female, you have brown eyes, you enjoy sports or any other characteristic of ours. It isn't being "obsessed with identity labels". There are some people very obsessed with a crazy amount of identity labels, though. This doesn't seem the case.