On The Pointlessness Of Forced Categorization

Time in and time out, I see people trying to fit everything into an existing box or category rather than creating a new one. I know people don't like change, but some categories are entirely arbitrary, and most are ever changing. People love to pretend categories are important, and to some extent, I can see, why, it helps to make life a simpler experience, but most categories are entirely useless outside of abstract concepts. Unless we're discussing objective, provable facts, categories are functionally worthless. It's like people arguing about whether a hot-dog is a sandwich or not. Who the hell cares? Why should we care? Not everything has to have an arbitrary psychological distinction applied. Even Freud knew that. By extension, not everything has to have an arbitrary political, societal or other distinction applied. Certain things can exist on their own. Not everything has to be some kind of statement. The fact that I use an Xbox One controller on my PC isn't a political statement, I do it because my DualShock 3 stopped working on my PC, and the DualShock 4 lacked some rather important compatibilities with some of the games I needed to play for my other blog. Also, the fact that the controller was cheap helped. Likewise, eating macaroni and cheese with a spoon, rather than a fork isn't a political statement, but this is the level of absurdity we're operating on when people try to apply cultural, psychological or gender-based categories to arbitrary aspects of life. It's not useful, it's more effort than it could possibly be worth, and attempting to strictly categorize everything is folly, since ideas and attitudes change as quickly and frequently as the colors in the sky.