Going off from our discussion in class about defining the term queer and labeling people it; I think I have a different take on the word. Growing up I had a brother that was about four years older then me. Like most brothers and sisters we picked on each other and one of the names my brother would call me is queer. He always called me it when I was being weird or goofy, so essentially I grew up thinking that queer was never a negative term. Still to this day I don't see it in a negative way, but that doesn't mean I'd go around calling everyone queer. I understand that people have a different meaning for that word.
I feel like words are meant to have several meanings and people have to remember that just because something doesn't hurt you, it can and will hurt someone else. On the other hand though I feel people put too much emphasis on labels. Duff Goldman, creator of Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, stated that "the human mind has this thing- this need- to put things in drawers and jars and plastic containers and give them labels" He was talking about him being the unconventional "image" of being a metal band guitarist a graffiti artist cake decorator. Which proves the point that people don't fit into just one jar or drawer. We have an abundance of the things that make up who we are. So in order to fix this image of labels perhaps we need to see those glass jars as being a little bit more porous.
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