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Lol. Proving indeed, that at a larger social level at least, women do need to have decisions made for them. Just trying to get one's head around these mental pretzels is exhausting.

I was most gratified to see that as recently as 1972 a single woman couldn't get a credit card.

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to have those days back again. #MakeTheWestPatriarchalAgain

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Indeed. The basic assumption was that a decent young woman belonged either with her parents or a husband.

Now she's "free" with her credit card, with a master just big, bad, and distant enough (the state), that she can pretend she hasn't got one.