• flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    Back in the day, women needed a man, so you were supposed to focus on catching one instead of on weeding out the overly sensitive ones.

    And it wasn’t that long ago. I knew a grandmother who had gone to college to get her degree in doing housewife stuff, which was a common method for catching a man. Gross stuff.

    • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 days ago

      I mean women couldn’t even have bank accounts until like the 60’s and I’m fairly certain it was in the 70’s before it became commonly done.

      I have to navigate all the way back to my mother in my family tree to find the first women that lived while not being allowed to have a bank account in the US.