Which is why I say it prevents ‘creativity’, strictly speaking. Reality requires of us the ability to negotiate our identities, which ability itself is collaborative, and thus creative. To refuse to acknowledge that people we meet will reach their own conclusions, about the categories into which we fit, based on their own impressions and cognitions (which in turn are based somewhat on how we ‘present’, but are not entirely within our control), is to deny those people their autonomy, and their creative function. It is also to regress to the mindset of a two year-old, who will throw a tantrum whenever he does not ‘get his way’.