Labels

Nerd

Geek

Retard

Bitch

whore

Ugly

Fat

Christian

Porch Monkey

Nigger

Chink

Kike

Beaner

Wetback

bible thumper

dude

Hipster

These labels at one time or another were meant to hurt

and some still do they were meant as terms of derision

Yet some have new meanings today

and the people that belong to those labels wear them with honor

I want to focus on a couple of them

The words nerd and geek were words used by jocks

to make fun of people were smarter and knew more

so the jocks wanted to hurt them so they called them nerd or geek.

Today however i know many people, myself included, who wear these

words with pride.

many of us think its cool to be a nerd, so when you call us that

you are paying us a compliment.

Now Christian, when it was first coined it to was a term of derision.

the greeks wanted to put the followers of Christ down so they would call them

"little Christ" or Christian. to the greeks it was meant to say

that the Christians were truly no better than them, yet the Christians

turned it around and accepted that truly they were "little Christs" they were no better

Than Christ and instead wear it today with pride.

Yet so many of the other labels still hurt.

We should not use them unless they fit.

No one person is truly ugly

No one woman is truly a bitch

I think instead we should say

Cool

Beautiful

Different

Awesome

Brilliant

Good

And other such words that encourage others in who they are.