But not really amazing to me. I’m 79. When I grew up, women could not get loans in their own name, or get a credit card (as those came along) or buy a car without Daddy’s or Hubby’s permission. Don’t even talk about buying a house or any other property. There was no birth control, no legal abortion (oh but hey, I know this guy who knows …
But not really amazing to me. I’m 79. When I grew up, women could not get loans in their own name, or get a credit card (as those came along) or buy a car without Daddy’s or Hubby’s permission. Don’t even talk about buying a house or any other property. There was no birth control, no legal abortion (oh but hey, I know this guy who knows someone who can fix this for you…) and the list goes on. We older women KNOW what is coming down the road, and it is a major SUCK. “I have to stay married to him because how could I support myself and the two kids without some money from him? And if I were to even go out on a date he’d try to get the kids taken away because of my “moral turpitude”, while he’s shaking up with some new bimbo every month.” “Well, sometimes men just gotta hit a gal, and we just have to take it.” (I was actually told this by someone I supervised; I was almost dizzy with rage. At him. At “society”.) We older women are watching women today being moved into a line and told to march over the cliff “for our own good”, or because “it’s the Lord’s will” or “this is how to ‘get’ or ‘keep’ a man, as if they were some elusive prey.
But not really amazing to me. I’m 79. When I grew up, women could not get loans in their own name, or get a credit card (as those came along) or buy a car without Daddy’s or Hubby’s permission. Don’t even talk about buying a house or any other property. There was no birth control, no legal abortion (oh but hey, I know this guy who knows someone who can fix this for you…) and the list goes on. We older women KNOW what is coming down the road, and it is a major SUCK. “I have to stay married to him because how could I support myself and the two kids without some money from him? And if I were to even go out on a date he’d try to get the kids taken away because of my “moral turpitude”, while he’s shaking up with some new bimbo every month.” “Well, sometimes men just gotta hit a gal, and we just have to take it.” (I was actually told this by someone I supervised; I was almost dizzy with rage. At him. At “society”.) We older women are watching women today being moved into a line and told to march over the cliff “for our own good”, or because “it’s the Lord’s will” or “this is how to ‘get’ or ‘keep’ a man, as if they were some elusive prey.
Sorry, rant [off].
My mother bought a house in 1967. She was a widow. She got an FHA loan.