• Jadzia_Dax [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I like crystals and I'm a communist ama.

    something also tells me most of the guys rushing to dunk on this are the same type of guy who want a girlfriend who'd wear cat ears 🙄

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, I'm not sure what the cat ears are meant to mean here. Crystals are aesthetically pretty cool, but the new-age movement is sus at best IMO, so I get what that was supposed to indicate in the meme.

    • HornyOnMain
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      3 years ago

      the same type of guy who want a girlfriend who’d wear cat ears 🙄

      I, on the other hand, am the type of guy who wants a boyfriend who'd wear cat ears

    • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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      3 years ago

      Crystals are cool but people who believe they can like, cure arthritis or whatever, are sus

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Crystals are one of those things like rune circles that I wish worked, because it's just aesthetically cool.

            • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              While the criticism of it is sometimes sexist in nature, a lot of new-age shit, astrology included, has some really obvious and disturbing reactionary implications/parallels. I'm not saying every person who likes the stuff is reactionary, but there's obvious reactionary currents to it and you can see it really often in the wild.

              I don't go on screeds about astrology or any shit like that, but if anyone I meet ever thinks they can categorize me based on the time of year I was born, it's honestly offensive and sus.

            • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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              3 years ago

              Isn’t…

              Men=science/rationality

              Women=magic/spirituality

              …thing itself sort of a reductive binary. Women are capable of rational and scientific thinking and men can be into woo shit. I know plenty of women who roll their eyes at astrology.

        • BeamBrain [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          This site spends way more time making fun of g*mers than crystals and the g*mers never complain

            • BeamBrain [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Defending false consciousness peddled by capitalists on the basis that it's marketed to women is just giving porky an easy shield against criticism.

              • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                Gmers are also viciously bigotted, whereas I’ve never seen someone who likes crystals whine about minorities using crystals or something, idk what stupid things Gmers complain about.

                Yeah, unfortunately new-age people actually often are like that, though. You can see further up this thread people discussing the history of reactionary new-age movements.

                    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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                      3 years ago

                      That explanation of anything spirtiual somehow being fash is honestly grasping imo, but I’m headed out to protest and don’t have time to argue about it.

                      That's definitely not what I said. I'm saying that new-age shit can often be fash-adjacent, especially (for obvious reasons) when it's white people doing it (cultural appropriation and all). When it's traditional indigenous cultural practices, it's by definition not new-age anyways.

              • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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                3 years ago

                I’ve never seen someone who likes crystals whine about minorities

                I’m pretty sure I could find some obscure YT channels that would change this…