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Also gonna just drop this quick exchange from a year ago with someone who has apparently since been banned for downplaying SA:

That person:

Me:

This comes across as sexist (the thing that is bullshit is inherently feminine!) and patronizing (protect their frivolous bullshit til they grow out of it?) as well as patently false (why say it's women's? men and other non-women are into this shit too!)

With an additional: I think it's sexist to call astrology something that is inherently for women. If it is disproportionately taken up by women (I know the meme is that it is, I don't know if the actual stats reflect that) then that does not make it ok or good, it means we need to look at what the fuck is wrong with our society that women or more broadly non-men feel the need to turn to fake shit to express feelings, emotions, and personality instead of just speaking honestly and directly? There's a pretty clear answer: the rampant sexist oppressive machinery of the patriarchy has to do with that, punishing women for being straightforward, blunt, honest, gaslighting women into being out of touch with their own feelings because maybe those feelings are proscribed by the system, so that some circuitous other outlet is desperately clung to instead. Well then, is the solution to mislead an oppressed populace into another set of restrictive chains? Or is it to break those chains entirely? That's a rhetorical question.