I'm triggered by people who believe in astrology, or talking to spirits or deities or reading energies or whatever. Am I just overly sensitive or closed minded or judgmental? Maybe but... I think there's something else going on here. An analogy:
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I feel very similarly to the way I do with my religious mother, where I know she believes that I'm going to hell, that's just part of her worldview, and she might not talk about it but it leaks into her perception of me, her hellbound daughter, it'll always be between us. 10/
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And it might not be as sinister with the astrology people, but it has the *potential* to be; I still treat a gun as dangerous even if the next shot is a blank. And ultimately this is my discomfort - when I'm around these people, I feel misunderstood, or missed, or alone 11/
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in the deep value of curiosity and self doubt, and I feel afraid and uncomfortable at the small possibility they might turn on me in the future because they never were really in connection with me to begin with. I don't like this feeling, it makes me sad. 12/12.
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If it's not an easily updated view then yes. I don't feel uncomfortable around people who hold generalist views of gender if it's very clearly loosely held/open to deviation on an individual basis
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I can't find it now, but I recall Hank Green one commenting that astronomy isn't real, someone replying "you're such a Capricorn (?)" and him pointing it that if someone says they don't believe in a belief system, it's pretty rude to then immediately apply it to them. And it is.
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