Labels in school?, Annoying or Accurate? Options

[XRosesXAreXBlack...]

First, my apologies if this subject is already being dicussed somewhere on the forum.Honestly, I really didn't feel like looking through 33 pages just to find one topic. =/

Anways, I'm fifteen and I today was the last day of my freshman year in high school.One main thing I've noticed throughout the year was the number of cliques and groups that were mainly baised on the way people dressed and looked.

Personally, I find high school labels (ex. Goth, Emo, Prep, Jock, Stoner, Geek...etc.) are just really annnoying.

I understand that it's natural to kind of stereotype a person when you first meet them, but it bothers me when people use labels to judge people and decide whether or not they want to be friends.

I mean, you could be a "prep" who meets a "goth kid" and you could say "Oh, they're creepy and wear black.They worship Satan so I refuse to talk to them."
It bothers me that people label like that, especially since most of the stereotypes are completely ridiculous!

I feel like I've ranted enough for now.What does everyone else think?

[1angel3]

I don't like the steotypr thing, but if you saw me in person, you saw I in the hip hop group thing, but I hang out with all KINDS of people, goths ( love them), emo, stoners (mostly, their fun people), yea my point is very single body don't hang with only people like them based of steotype. I am living proof

[xKatt]

I don't like the steotypr thing

all KINDS of people, goths ( love them), emo, stoners (mostly, their fun people), yea my point is very single body don't hang with only people like them based of steotype. I am living proof

You just contradicted yourself. You said you didn't like stereotypes and yet you're sterotyping people by calling them "goths", or "emo" or "stoners" and lumping them all into one group.

I'd like to see a society where everyone would be themselves instead of trying to be what everyone else was to "fit in". There's no such thing as originality these days.

I have lots of friends and everyone's different. My clique is an entirely "undenominational" group of girls.

I wear Abercrombie and American Eagle and play volleyball. Does that make me a "prep"? I have depression. Does that make me "emo"? I listen to death metal and goregrind. Does that make me a "goth"? A lot of my friends can skateboard and I wear skate shoes. Does that make me a "skater"? I get very high grades and I study for tests and voluntarily took summer school. Does that make me a "nerd"? I've dated more guys and gone farther with them than any of my friends. Does that make me a "slut"?

I'm all of the above. Call me a poseur, call me what you will. I don't care. I don't try to do stupid shit to fit in. I just am. If I'm not accepted, so be it.