I never said I found it distasteful to identify that way. I said I found your argument a distasteful parallel to people who think being trans is a slippery slope toward "crazy" identities and "out-of-control body modification" (and just in case it's not clear enough, those are scare-quotes to indicate that I do not share this point of view). At best, you made a really bad analogy, and at worst, it was the same damn argument: ("NEXT THING YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WILL IDENTIFY AS VISTAROLES, WORDS WILL HAVE NO MEANING, AND SOCIETY WILL COLLAPSE!!!").
Re: Part 2