Magician, Sorcerer, Wizard?, What do you consider yourself? Options

Good evening,

This is perhaps a topic that has been mentioned quite regularly, but what in your opinion should a male practicing magic call himself? Why do some choose to call themselves "magician" instead of "wizard." Next, when should a male, or female for that matter, begin to call themselves by these different names? It is sad to think that an armchair magician is calling himself a great and powerful mage. I understand that these different names have to do a lot with your background, but I thought I'd get everyone's imput on the classification of these sorts of men and women alike. Shouldn't a woman who practices magic be considered a witch? Or shouldn't a male who does the same thing consider himself a magician? Let's keep things simple, right? There seem to always be complications that arise with the term. What do you consider yourself and why? What's your background? Any thoughts would be a very interesting read.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curi

In our modern society I thought a warlock was the male counter part to a witch. But then again who wants to be known as an oath breaker?

Let me liken this to the field of psychology (you could do this with any major study as well). But in the broad field of psychology you can add the word psychologist to any of the following words: forensic, behavioral, existential, biological, social, environmental, child, truama, neuro, clinical, addictions, marketing, research, death, business and probably a few others I forgot as well.

You have the entire field of psychology and each of these types of psychologists are specialist within it. Yet they've all taken the same basic classes! In a weekend seminar, minus years gained by experience, you could train a social psychologist how to be a neuropsychologist... ok so no you can't because that requires a medical degree I believe... but say a social psychologst to a clinical psychologist. Everything they've learned in many ways over lap and it wouldn't be very hard for one specialist to take what ever classes to become whatever other title they want to hold. Some actually hold multiple titles!

So looking at the world of the occult and spiritualism I see a similar situation where people can become this or that title and really what does it mean? If you specialize in one area it might make sense to go by a title that reflects that and distinguishes you from some other specialist and yet there is probably a lot of common knowledge between similar specialist. I guess the point I'm making that personally I have found it to be nothing more than semantics to argue over titles. I just go by occultist.