I think the main problem with them is that the identity rarely comes from an actual love of their own so much as it comes from a reaction to the modern cesspool of identity politics - the problem with which is that if you are constantly reacting to things you might aswell be in a sociology petry dish.

A solid identity cannot be formulated on these terms. It becomes mere aesthetic, pedantically ornamental, as you are made potent or impotent on a whim, moved around and dissoluted likewise.