Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

"What do you identify as"

127 replies

User09678 · 18/01/2025 07:36

I hope this is allowed as it was inspired by another thread. Asking people what they "identify as" (in this case class) has always made me curious because it seems so often to me that if someone is having to identify as something, then it's because they're often not that thing. Identifying as having a good sense of humour, lol. Let us be the judge of that. But my point is that you can't pick and choose identities, they're really ascribed by wider society and circumstance and reality. Am I being unreasonable? Probably

OP posts:
Stressedoutmum6274 · 21/01/2025 13:57

A tree

Snowmanscarf · 21/01/2025 13:59

ItGhoul · 21/01/2025 13:18

A lot of people on this thread seem to be fundamentality misunderstanding the concept of 'identity'. You can 'be' something and 'identify' as something.

Also, everyone has a self-created identity of some sort. People who say 'I don't identify as anything. I am something' don't understand that what they consider they 'are' is often just a subjective identity anyway.

The trouble is, a lot of forms don’t give you that option. They ask what you identify as only, not what you identify as, and what you were born as.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread