The new slang phrase "Green Tea Bitch" is fresh out of the oven and seems to be on everyone's lips.

A GTB is a girl who looks very pure and cute and pretends to be harmless and fragile without any ambition. More and more people can not help sticking the label on girls around them. It equates being simple and pretty to hypocrisy.

The term came into popular use to describe some women who frequent the Hainan Rendez-vous, a trade show for luxury items like yachts and jets held in Sanya, a tropical playground for the country's wealthy. Purportedly, many of these young women with the looks of models and the appearance of being pure attend luxury banquets and make dirty deals with the superrich. This contrasts with their innocent appearance, and is thus regarded as two-faced.

This phrase is irrational and ugly. And recently three girls in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, launched a special campaign to oppose the public usage of GTB and other insulting labels for women.

Opposing the label GTB is a good start, but in fact we could be more careful about many of the labels we apply to people in our own lives. Stereotypes related to horoscopes, hometowns and even blood types are also irrational and ugly.

Most of us have experienced some judgment on our personalities based on such superficial labels. With this usually takes the form of a carnival of harmless jokes, it is not funny when people get together and keep badmouthing one group blindly - for example, people from Henan.

I am always sorry about branding a person according to labels rather than getting to know them through communication. Is someone's personality really related to his or her appearance, horoscope, hometown or even blood type? Could anyone know a stranger's characteristics that easily? Don't those labels simplify the most complicated creature in the world - the human being?

Obviously, those labels lead to a kind of discrimination that can hurt people. When people are busy categorizing both strangers and friends, they help to establish a kind of unequal order with an invisible whip. Imagine that you are given a label before someone even knows you.

This reminds me of a chat about horoscopes with my friends. They began talking about how weird and annoying a Virgo could be. In fact, similar comments could be found amongst youngsters in many places. There is even a group named I Hate Virgos with nearly 20,000 members at Douban.com, a popular Chinese social networking site. I don't deny that it's fun to discuss horoscopes, but to make it a standard to judge someone is unwise.

In fact, I have a best friend who is a Virgo named Jie. She is a tolerant and warm-hearted girl, she always offers excellent suggestions and generous help to friends, and sometimes even to strangers.

Therefore, why don't we put away our hostility, try to be more patient and offer the others our sincerity and understanding? Even a Virgo GTB from Henan deserves a fair chance.