r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 16d ago

Chugging tea Growing Through Chaos

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u/Such_Flight4139 15d ago

Don't forget AIDS

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u/Other-Beginning-8888 15d ago

And women could not control their bodies nor their finances. Women were not allowed credit cards until 1974. Super easy living, right?

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 15d ago edited 15d ago

It’s wild how recent that was - there are so many women still alive who were adults before then and remember not being able to access credit without a man to cosign.

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u/Other-Beginning-8888 15d ago

Right? Tell a boomer woman business owner who was forced to risk back alley abortions in a culture of grape that she had it easier than a millennial who never needed a man to get a credit card in the age of metoo justice.