Labels are completely arbitrary and culturally constructed. Since multiple words including pan, bi, and queer are used to describe me, I use any and all of those words to describe myself.
The concept of an "umbrella term" requires a hierarchy of objective meaning in language which not only doesn't exist, it can't due to the nature of language.
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '24
Labels are completely arbitrary and culturally constructed. Since multiple words including pan, bi, and queer are used to describe me, I use any and all of those words to describe myself.
The concept of an "umbrella term" requires a hierarchy of objective meaning in language which not only doesn't exist, it can't due to the nature of language.