• flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 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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        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.

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    5 days ago

    Before realizing what instance this was posted in, I thought “I bet this was taken out of context.”

    Good to know my brain still works. Occasionally.

    Also, now sub’d.

  • galanthus@lemmy.world
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    I thought people then were sexually repressed and conservative, but he went straight to the point.

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    5 days ago

    Goodness wild how recent (what year exactly?) that era

    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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      Judging by the artwork, this could easily be 60s, which is nearly three quarters of a century ago.

      I don’t think it’s that wild considering how the world worked back then.