Vice Just Came Up With Another Reason To HATE ‘Straight Men’

Straight men suck – ok?

I mean, at least according to libs they seem to. Straight men are the PATRIARCHY and the patriarchy must be smashed. So… you know. Smash straight dudes.

Anyway, Vice found yet ANOTHER reason straight males are enemy #1:

Why Straight Men Hate Astrology So Much https://t.co/GhwQ9fyvRa pic.twitter.com/Nir5O2em33

— VICE UK (@VICEUK) November 15, 2018

So hear me out… I think astrology is kinda FUN. I LIKE being a Scorpio. I think it’s interesting… in the same way taking a “Which of the Spice Girls are you” or “What kind of pizza are you” online personality quiz. It’s not REAL – it’s just fun. I realize it’s all complete BS – but who doesn’t like hearing they’re going to have a STELLAR day today?

According to the article, it’s SUPER GENDERED:

Over the past two to three years, astrology has shifted from being a niche interest to a major point of enthusiasm for many women and queer people. Broadly, VICE’s channel geared towards women and the LGBTQ community, gets a huge amount of traffic from astrological features and horoscopes. Other media platforms for women have noticeably ramped up astrology content from filler to the forefront. In the UK, Google searches for “birth chart” doubled between November of 2013 and November of 2018. Since September of 2017, there’s been a steady increase in people searching “astrological compatibility”. All that interest has given publishing a boost: sales of mind, body and spirit books are booming; in 2017, sales rose by 13 percent in just a year.

In 2016, mental health was prime meme fodder; now, astrology memes are all over our timelines. Swipe through a dating app and you’ll soon find a woman who’s included their sign in emoji in their bio as shorthand for personality traits, likes and dislikes, and an indicator for compatibility.

But not everyone is onboard. Joe is not alone in his antipathy to the cosmological boom; straight men seem to be frequently apathetic or averse to astrology. In a 2005 Gallup UK poll, just over twice as many women in the UK believed in astrology compared to men (30 percent to 14 percent of a data pool of 1,010 people). A 2017 study by Pew Research Centre found that 20 percent of adult men in the US believed in astrology, compared to 37 percent of women.

If you’re a straight man with a lot of female friends, you probably tolerate astrology (“It’s gotten to the point where I’m sharing Virgo memes in the group chat like ‘lol, me’, but I still don’t like it,” says Adam from Manchester). And if you don’t, you likely think it’s a load of sh*t (“If you try to bring up that shit with me, I’ll think you’re a mindless bimbo,” Tom, 25, London). There are obviously women and LGBTQ people who feel similarly, but why is this attitude so prevalent among straight men in particular? Is it because astrology is generally seen as a “women’s” interest?

Uhhh. Yeah. Didn’t you just answer your own question? (Also Adam from Manchester is obviously getting friend-zoned into oblivion. Sharing Virgo memes isn’t going to help with that, buddy.)

AAANYWAY… some Twitter users have a different take:

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— Eric D. Özkan (@ericozkan1) November 16, 2018

BAHAHAHA.

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— Rust Never Sleeps (@therabbimeyer) November 16, 2018

but the horoscope in the back of my newspaper is *just vague enough* to sort of parallel something happening in my own life!! astrology is REAL

— HEWWO? (@excelsagas) November 16, 2018

Straight men used to love astrology – back in the days when witch burning was still a thing.

Now we don’t hate it, but just put it into that category of things, like timeshares, Nigerian email scams, pyramid schemes, etc. that are an obvious waste of time and money.

— joebrenner (@joeabrenner) November 16, 2018

Reasonable men and women, gay and straight, find it silly. End of story.

— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) November 18, 2018

Yup. Silly… and maybe a little bit fun. But stupid. Ok great.

But… do men REALLY hate it?

We don’t hate it. We think it’s idiotic. There’s a difference.

— Brad Pade (@BradPade) November 16, 2018

I hate it. 🤠

— Mountain Man (@CornWhisky) November 16, 2018

Naaah I hate it too

— Nathanael Geers (@geersn) November 17, 2018

HAHA!

Bottom line:

there’s just something about having a penis and being attracted to women that makes me resistant to the unscientific idea that the alignments of stars and the month and year I was born dictate how my life will go

— sugondese prime minister lemmy grabbahan (@lemmygrabbahan) November 16, 2018

Damn straight men and their rationality!

— Insanity (@InsanityCrypto) November 16, 2018

DAMN THEM ALL!