it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation
I'd say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn't the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I'm being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven't even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it
yes that's how confirmation bias works
hang on this is way too good to leave in the comments
last month i 'made' a new coworker repeatedly guess what astrology sign i was by simply refusing to cooperate and tell him my birthday and repeatedly telling him 'i don't want to be categories by those kinds of assumptions. just get to know me as a person and not one of like twelve categories' and he kept going 'that's such an aries thing to say. i know these things, i can always tell, because i'm a really intuitive cancer. maybe you're a capricorn because you're being so argumentative.' etc etc. he would not drop it and kept coming at me from all different angles to try and assess what sign i actually was, no matter how many times i told him that i wanted to opt out of the whole game.
finally he went off on a tangent about his own incredible powers of empathy and deduction and how he was never wrong because he was a moon cusp double backflip whatever the fuck cancer and it gave him special powers etc etc and mentioned his particular birthdate, and i started laughing because holy shit.
i said, "okay. okay. alright, you got me, i'll play ball. you get one last chance to guess my fuckin' sign."
well, he guessed twice and struck out both times, guessed one more time, even more confidently and incorrectly, and i pulled out my ID and handed it over.
me and mr intuitive never-miss deluxe cancer jackass had the exact same 4th of July birthday.
