It’s not the patriarchy. It’s they themselves.

After work today, I treated myself to a dinner in an upscale bistro near my work. They sat me in the dining area next to a table of six, professionally dressed women who all looked like they just came from the office.

Overhearing their conversations, they spent a good portion of time talking shit about their coworkers and boyfriends. So that’s not that unusual because AWALT.

However, for virtually every single issue or person that come up in the conversation they would say something like “well...she’s a Pisces and people who are Pisces tend to blah blah blah.”

Or “he’s an Aries and that’s why he acted that way.”

They weren’t laughing. This wasn’t a joke. They were seriously discussing how to handle their personal and professional relationships based on astrology.

And somehow men are keeping them down.