I’ve been thinking lately about labels. In the US, we tend to have labels and categories for just about everything. (I’m singling out the states because its the only place I’ve ever lived.) We have a label/category for race, for music, for movies, for food, and for books. My question is, why label everything?
I understand the basic reason behind the music, after all you don’t want to pick up a hip hop CD, if you’re in the mood for Merle Haggard. But I guess what I don’t get is the reasoning behind label/categorizing everything. For example, if I want to be called a spicy romance writer, why is it necessary for magazines and online sites to categorize me as a writer of erotica? I do not write erotica. I may write erotic romances, but at no time would I call my writing erotica. Bless the writers who can write it.
I know these little things shouldn’t bother me, but they do. Just like when someone tries to put me in a race box. In general, labels/categories (boxes) are confining spaces, which stunt growth.
I think it’s time to think outside of the box.
Archive for September, 2003
Thursday, September 4th, 2003
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003
Well the temperatures finally seem to be dropping. I guess summer has decided to limp away and leave us with the cooling winds of fall. Okay, out here in the West the temps are still pretty darn hot, but not as hot as they’ve been over the past few weeks. Vegas and Arizona are finally in the low triple digits. Yep, around these parts that’s a good thing. Soon we’ll be thinking about the snow covered rest of the country, while we run around in shorts. Happy fall, ya’all.
