Zodiac shaming is a real thing. Don’t do it.

Are you a steamy Scorpio looking for a long-term relationship? A dreamy Pisces aspiring to work in a traditional corporate environment? A Virgo wanting to have friends?

Please, keep your zodiac sign to yourself. Zodiac-shaming — the practice of treating someone differently and punitively because of their astrological sign — isn’t a total joke. You never know when someone will judge you for your cosmic family tree. 

That’s not just my Virgo privilege talking. 

It feels a bit laughable to hyphenate “zodiac” and “shame,” when so many other forms of shaming — body, sex, grammar — are infinitely more severe and pervasive. But when someone is denied a resource or labeled undateable because of their zodiac sign … well, if that’s not discrimination, we can at least agree that it’s bad.  Read more…

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