Identities are social tools for helping people understand and accept ways in which they experience the world, but the problem is that most people are too attached to being "normal" to take on "weird" identities, which blocks many identity based approaches from them.
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An example is a friend of a friend who basically textbook meets the description of asexual, but because asexual is an identity that is very much designed to fit under the queer umbrella, they are very reluctant to take it on despite fitting the description.
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I think many women who refuse to identity as feminist despite having feminist compatible beliefs are probably examples of this too, but that's a more complicated issue.
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I don't have a solution to this problem to propose BTW, I just wanted to acknowledge that it exists.
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Replying to @andre_videla
Well it leaves a lot of people without a set of tools to interpret their experience, which is often pretty bad for them.
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It’s really hard when you just don’t want to go through the canned experiences, and do not want to be defined by what you’re from but rather the life you grow for yourself Luckily I think that so much is happening at the moment that I think identity can be bootstrapped once more
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