This post, while I realize it is attempting to summarize, seems entirely redundant. My personal belief (expressed in many of those threads) would be on a checkbox that is not available: NONE. None of these labels offend me, because I do not exhibit the "bad" charateristics typified by the labels. If you want to call me Mr. Cocksucker all day long, thats fine-- as long as you treat me fairly as a human being. This is certainly my personal belief, and I realize that some more sensitive than others, so I've recently departed from using these types of labels (when they'd be taken offensively).
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