# Don't get it? Slap a label on it. (mild) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 27, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949 "2005-01-27T17:37:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/41 "2005-01-28T10:50:21Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Is there a label for that? šŸ˜ƒ [Kramer voice] Sheā€™s a rabid anti-labelite! [/Kramer voice] ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/42 "2005-01-28T13:40:17Z")
> [@Esprix](#): > > Heh. šŸ™‚ > > Esprix You stay out of this, Gay Guy. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/43 "2005-01-28T16:22:10Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > You stay out of this, Gay Guy. Lose the comma and youā€™ve encapsulated my love life for the last six monthsā€¦ Actually it works with the comma too. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/44 "2005-01-28T16:38:26Z")
> [@Esprix](#): > > Heh. šŸ™‚ > > Esprix Well, since thereā€™s a smiley face Iā€™ll guess I got your name right. Next time you do a ā€œAsk the Gay Guyā€ thread, please insert an at-least-four letter word into the title so itā€™s searchable, pretty please? I know it wonā€™t stop the hamsters from hating me but it might help. Iā€™m glad you are still here, Esprix, I was beginning to think weā€™d lost you. Are you still living down in Caid? ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/45 "2005-01-29T06:59:37Z")
> [@The Devil's Grandmother](#): > > Well, since thereā€™s a smiley face Iā€™ll guess I got your name right. Next time you do a ā€œAsk the Gay Guyā€ thread, please insert an at-least-four letter word into the title so itā€™s searchable, pretty please? I know it wonā€™t stop the hamsters from hating me but it might help. > Iā€™m glad you are still here, Esprix, I was beginning to think weā€™d lost you. Are you still living down in Caid? You know I never realized it wasnā€™t searchable. Huh. I used to have a link to all four threads in my sig line, but I changed it for my Dad in 2003. Perhaps itā€™s time to change it back. Still in San Diego, at least for the time being. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/46 "2005-01-29T09:05:21Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > **Sarah** , I hear you! I am not my age, political affiliation, occupation, nation of origin, gender, marital status, or hobbies. Iā€™m sure to a lot of the people on this Board I am ā€œthat transsexual lesbianā€ and very little more. Itā€™s rather depressing at times. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/47 "2005-01-29T14:08:39Z")
> [@KellyM](#): > > Iā€™m sure to a lot of the people on this Board I am ā€œthat transsexual lesbianā€ and very little more. Youā€™re a transexual lesbian? Wow, I had no idea. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/48 "2005-01-29T14:17:10Z")
Actually, I had no idea. And now Iā€™ve got to go and try to wrap my mind around the phrase ā€œtranssexual lesbian.ā€ I shouldā€™ve just stuck to watching Ghost in the Shell. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/49 "2005-01-29T15:46:50Z")
> [@KellyM](#): > > Iā€™m sure to a lot of the people on this Board I am ā€œthat transsexual lesbianā€ and very little more. > > Itā€™s rather depressing at times. Having read **Eve** ā€™s and **gobear** ā€™s complaints (thanks, **lee** , for doing that thread!), I can understand. However, if you happen to be the sole left-handed blonde lesbian Albanian dwarf with a willingness to share your life experiences, thereā€™s an extent to which youā€™ve got to expect that youā€™ll be expected to field questions from people curious as to what itā€™s like to be a left-handed blonde lesbian Albanian dwarf. There are times when I get sick and tired of being the poster child for decent compassionate, affirming-style Christianity ā€“ though I do get a break in posting about linguistics, dirigibles, paleontology, and such in GQ. So hear a lot of sympathy, and a little ā€œI hear your painā€ (;)) ā€“ but also a recognition of the fact that we did choose our roles by being ā€œoutā€ about who we are and what we feel. That does **not** mean, however, that any Yahoo who chooses to post on a given topic (like the clown who decided to condemn you for ā€œwaking up one morning and deciding to become a womanā€ a while ago) demands that you specifically have to respond to him. You have plenty of friends here quite capable of performing supplemental proctological surgery on him (i.e., ā€œtearing him a newā€¦ā€) ā€“ relax and let them, if itā€™s getting to you! ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/50 "2005-01-30T05:29:25Z")
> [@KellyM](#): > > Iā€™m sure to a lot of the people on this Board I am ā€œthat transsexual lesbianā€ and very little more. > > Itā€™s rather depressing at times. Yeah, yeah, cry me a river. Iā€™ll bet a lot of people think of me as ā€œthat Korean schoolteacherā€, and little else, but you donā€™t see _me_ complaining. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/51 "2005-01-30T05:35:23Z")
> [@KellyM](#): > > Iā€™m sure to a lot of the people on this Board I am ā€œthat transsexual lesbianā€ and very little more. > > Itā€™s rather depressing at times. So one of your parents was from the isle of Lesbos and the other one from Transylvania? Marc ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/52 "2005-01-30T05:38:53Z")
> [@Time Like Tears](#): > > Did you read any of my subsequent posts, in which I continued to explore what was bugging me and came up with the conclusion that it wasnā€™t the labels so much as the people who use them to base all inferences about a person on? > > OPs can evolve. This one did. Pay attention. Fuck you. Hereā€™s another label thatā€™s useful from time to time. Asshole, and I think it fits you like a glove. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/53 "2005-01-30T06:04:52Z")
> [@MGibson](#): > > Fuck you. Hereā€™s another label thatā€™s useful from time to time. Asshole, and I think it fits you like a glove. Boy, that was necessary. See, this is exactly the kind of thing I am talking about here. Snap judgements based on too little information. You missed my point. I called you on it. Granted, I got to my point in a roundabout sort of way, but my snarkiness at you didnā€™t involve cursing or name calling. Get over yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949/54 "2005-01-30T07:59:05Z")
> [@Time Like Tears](#): > > Boy, that was necessary. Really? > [@Time Like Tears](#): > > OPs can evolve. This one did. Pay attention. Was that necessary? Nah, so I guess itā€™s appropriate to remind you about pots and kettles calling one another names. > [@](#): > > See, this is exactly the kind of thing I am talking about here. Snap judgements based on too little information. No snap judgement was made. I didnā€™t think you were an asshole until you behaved like one. > [@](#): > > You missed my point. I called you on it. Granted, I got to my point in a roundabout sort of way, but my snarkiness at you didnā€™t involve cursing or name calling. Get over yourself. You behaved like an asshole. I called you on it. Is it my fault that your point was missed because you donā€™t know how to compose an opening post? Is it acceptable to behave like an asshole so long as it doesnā€™t involve cursing or name calling? If you donā€™t wish to bear the asshole label then I suggest you refrain from snarky behavior towards those who fail to interprete your miscommunications. Marc [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-get-it-slap-a-label-on-it-mild/286949.md?page=2)