• Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    enjoy the chaos

    NO I WANT ORDER!

    being sassy about stuff people like is not the dialectic way to do it.

    Like I said I don’t get into fights about this shit in public I was venting online, that just evolved into me making a more serious argument against astrology apologia.

    I’ll close with this: I feel like a lot of these defenses of astrology based around its associations with the feminine kinda feed into sexist stereotypes. Like the whole idea that women are chaotic and emotional and fey while men are ordered and logical, that’s some Jordan Peterson shit. Maybe the reason so many women are into astrology is the the same reason less women are in STEM? The patriarchy directs them in those directions.

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          5 months ago

          Most of the knowledge any random person on the street will have is wrong. In that it is a systematic attempt to understand the world outside liberal terms I am less opposed to it than other similar ideas. Especially as there is no direct path from astrology to antivaxx. It is all personal preference stuff. It is one of the least offensive manifestations of modern magical thinking.