It’s literally the same as talking about ghosts or whatever the fuck

This is infinitely more off-putting than astrology to me.

I feel extremely uncomfortable when people are talking about paranormal/pseudoscientific topics and it’s ambiguous whether they actually believe it or not. Like it’s to the point where I’d be looking to steer the conversation away from it or consider options for finding other plans. Being expected to go along with it puts my anxiety through the roof.

It’s a similar discomfort to how I feel when people go into an anti-communist tirade in my presence. Like I want to say something in opposition, but I fear saying something will turn group consensus against me.

I refuse to be categorized into the reddit dudebro category of people who fetishize their concept of “rationality” because I feel exceptionally off-put by this type of conversation.

Guys being upset that many women like astrology is, once again, sexist brainworms.

Very true that a vast majority of the backlash to it is rooted in misogyny.

Most women don’t take it that seriously, brad.

I definitely believe most people’s interaction with astrology is virtually equivalent to fortune cookies, but anecdotally speaking, the people I’ve met who are very into astrology have told me they’ve made fairly important life decisions based on it…which scares the shit out of me.

I refuse to judge people who find amusement in it, but true belief in it is certainly anti-materialist and a non-negligible number of people elevate it to a position where I can no longer see it as strictly harmless fun.

These are the same people who celebrate when a woman teacher molests one of her students. They just hate when women benefit from men being horny, especially financially.

No way it’s a real number.

Even with bots, 72 MILLION messages would require a ton of server capacity over just two days. Hell, it’s probably more traffic than her entire company gets in a month. Wikipedia gets like 100-200 requests per server per second.

She blocked Twitter users for calling her a TERF, which means you’d have to generate new profiles just so she could receive them, along with unique emails for each, making sure they’re not all coming from the same IP address.

No one running bot accounts going to:

1. Risk getting huge numbers of their bots banned by tying them all to one super targetted harassment campaign

OR

2. Waste the money/compute needed to send millions of messages per account when sending 50-100 messages would have the same effect.

How would she even be able to determine that number? She’s not gonna sift through 72 million messages just to count the number of threats down to the last digit. The lil badge counters for messages/replies/etc max out at 3-4 digits, so she’d have to use a 3rd party client that displays that number to even know how many messages she had.

Far more likely she’s exaggerating the number to sell the need for her product.