• Anomnomnomaly@lemmy.org
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    7 days ago

    One of the reasons you gen x kids got to run around un-tethered was because women weren’t even allowed economic independence until the mid 70’s… Women couldn’t get a credit card or loans without their husbands consent and signature.

    Divorce rates didn’t spike because of ‘feminism’ it spiked because women weren’t forced to be in unhappy marriages with abusive partners because they literally couldn’t exist and survive outside of the financial dependency they were forced to endure.

    I’m technically gen X myself (79)… right at the end of it. So I’ve never lived in a world where that was a thing. Why some men still think that women need to be tied to the kitchen sink only shows their own fears and ignorance… they’re afraid of becoming irrelevant in society after centuries/millennia of repressing women to possessions… that’s pretty fucking sick.