omg friend I also hate astrology. it's gotten to this Extremely Frustrating point where it's like, Queer Culture TM to be at least ironically into it & I have all these friends that make "haha i'm such a libra" jokes & I have to laugh even though I don't know what it means, I don't know what they mean by it or their relationship to it and I can't pause the conversation to be like "you right there pal like do u know this is very fake" coz it was just a passing joke and its honestly agonising ???
So the thing about astrology is that it assigns personal characteristics to people based on the uncontrollable circumstances of their birth. So uh
what the FUCK
is up with the popularity of astrology
in the QUEER COMMUNITY?!
I refuse to accept anything with any element of “oh yeah, you probably have these traits because you were assigned Capricorn at birth” as an aspect of any sort of hegemonic Queer Culture, and it has reached the point where every time someone says some shit like this, I absolutely am gonna ask them whether they believe it and take it seriously.
Like, ok, maybe it is fun for people to believe in the minor predictions they associate with their own signs. A little oracular guidance about the future can be fun, though if you’re gonna do that, I prefer the delightful specificity of tarot, which is really just a great way to give your mind a little narrative-based Rorscharch test.
But believing that you can know anything about a human being based on the month they were born (except perhaps whether their birth month got them assigned to a school year where they were unusually young or old, that actually can have an influence on childhood experience) is way more fucked up the longer you look at it. And I am particularly creeped out by people who say they DO NOT TRUST CERTAIN SIGNS?!
Like listen, ritual, spirituality and etc can be deeply meaningful guides for living a more moral, or connected, or thoughtful, or beautiful life. Why did you have to go with the only one I know of that is primarily concerned with typology and judginess, with essentially no better living component?
J K Rowling is a terf and even then I’ve seen better from people who self-identify with a house. At least the appalling eugenicist MBTI test is based on ANY INPUT OF YOUR OWN.
Take a uquiz and be fucking free, for goodness’ sake.
Feel free to reblog this m8s, I am ready for us to begin the Queer Astrology Backlash.
