Like most things on social media, arguing with this one specific sentence is a fools errand, because everything gets hyper distilled to be able to be consumed in the 2 seconds someone looks at a tweet or whatever.
The idea behind this sentence is that banks could discriminate against handing out credit to anyone they wanted, meaning that until 1974 women were unable to get loans or credit without a man cosigning unless they found a super progressive bank, which was unlikely.
Without the ability to get loans, they were unable to own their own homes, start a business, or generally have any kind of life outside marriage.
Of course women had literal bank accounts, since they were expected do manage the household finances and daily shopping. The issue this phrase is trying to distill, is how until very recently trying to have any kind of life without a man or being married was impossible for women, due to systematic discrimination. Of course that is not an easy witticism that can be taught with nuance in 2 seconds.
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For some reason I couldn’t get were, as in werewolf, out of my head when reading the title and thought I was still in r/dwarffortress for a second…
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TL;DR the meme is wrong.
Like most things on social media, arguing with this one specific sentence is a fools errand, because everything gets hyper distilled to be able to be consumed in the 2 seconds someone looks at a tweet or whatever.
The idea behind this sentence is that banks could discriminate against handing out credit to anyone they wanted, meaning that until 1974 women were unable to get loans or credit without a man cosigning unless they found a super progressive bank, which was unlikely.
Without the ability to get loans, they were unable to own their own homes, start a business, or generally have any kind of life outside marriage.
Of course women had literal bank accounts, since they were expected do manage the household finances and daily shopping. The issue this phrase is trying to distill, is how until very recently trying to have any kind of life without a man or being married was impossible for women, due to systematic discrimination. Of course that is not an easy witticism that can be taught with nuance in 2 seconds.
For some reason I couldn’t get were, as in werewolf, out of my head when reading the title and thought I was still in r/dwarffortress for a second…
Another damn were-american-women invasion!