Quote Originally Posted by Cool Luke's Hand View Post
How is it shoehorning? This is an informal survey on a message board that doesn't even require to you pick exclusively one. You are not going to be lifted from your home, attached with a tag reading "Brat" or "Masochist" and shipped off to Monaco to live out your days at the beck and call of a multi-millionaire living in tax freedom. What's the harm in it?
Who's talking about harm? I'm just saying that none of these archetypes fit me in any meaningful way, and if some people here aren't playing along and categorizing themselves under this scheme, it may be because they feel the same way. It's "shoehorning" because that's the word for trying to squeeze something into something else that doesn't quite fit.

I'm not offended by these categories or anything like that. I can see that other people find them personally relevant and meaningful, and that's great! But it is an arbitrary categorization scheme, and it's not going to accurately describe everyone. So why get pissy that some people aren't using it to describe themselves?