It gets under their skin and sets their mansplaining phasers to maximum. And of course, not all men, but a lot of them, and yes there are women that get on their high horse about it too. From Meyers-Briggs to Love Languages , knowing our personal tendencies, and more importantly having language with which to examine and discuss them, is useful—and a big part of personal growth. Astrology is about looking to the stars to look at yourself. Millions of people, myself included, find personal insight and comfort by doing that.
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More From Astrology. So women turn to the cosmos, for a sign on what their future will look like. As such, women are more easily excluded, exploited, and discriminated against. Perhaps, as a result of this, they are more likely to turn to the consolation of religion. Think about it; till date in societies like India, women do not have the agency to choose what work to do, where to live, who to marry, etc.
In most societies, women are thus more vulnerable than men — financially, legally and domestically. Most admitted being put off because astrology had been so gendered. I can't remember Esquire or Loaded having such pages when I read them many moons ago.
His opinion on astrology? Waste of energy. Waste of chip paper. It's like the lottery for lonely people. Sam feels similarly that astrology has always been gendered, and that the male response to that — to ignore it — makes sense.
I think women are drawn to them out of a sense of curiosity and spirituality that is drummed out of boys at a young age. Unsurprisingly, dating has provided a stage for tension. As women become more hooked on astrology, more straight men are being forced to engage with it. Most of the men I spoke to talked about astrology chat ruining dates, or ex-girlfriends who were "too obsessed" with the cosmos.
She met my parents — a meeting I thought went well, until my dad laughed in her face when she asked what his sign was and suggested that cancer signs typically struggled with appreciating music.
The family ended up having an "icy" tube journey home, the ex upset that Laurie's dad had given her beliefs so little patience. Both had an explosive argument about astrology that ended in her "consulting some charts for me there and then to see if my decision-making or reasoning was being negatively affected by Mercury or some similar shite", and Laurie breaking up with her via text. Adam, 26, from Oxford, was dating a female friend when an initial interest in astrology became a gateway drug to all sorts of New Age stuff, like tarot and palm reading.
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