Imagine you had to date a pool of people who tend to systematically deny the validity of your experiences or perspective. You have a way of referring to your experiences in a way that
is easy to ridicule
provides a layer of isolation between what you present as yourself and being personally ridiculed
is trivial to understand with the slightest bit of reason/empathy
Would you latch on to it as a way of filtering out dates?
In my case it’s not astrology though, it’s growing up poor. And the folks I meet who didn’t grow up that way systematically deny my experiences and perspective as ignorant and stupid (or mentally ill), because poor people are ignorant and stupid in their eyes and they can’t ever be anything other than that.
Imagine you had to date a pool of people who tend to systematically deny the validity of your experiences or perspective. You have a way of referring to your experiences in a way that
Would you latch on to it as a way of filtering out dates?
I don’t have to imagine that. I experience it.
In my case it’s not astrology though, it’s growing up poor. And the folks I meet who didn’t grow up that way systematically deny my experiences and perspective as ignorant and stupid (or mentally ill), because poor people are ignorant and stupid in their eyes and they can’t ever be anything other than that.