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It's a matter of legend in my family that my paternal grandmother died young because in the early 1960s her husband (not of any religious persuasion, just a deeply unpleasant man) had the power to decide that she shouldn't have potentially lifesaving heart surgery due to the inconvenience her convalescence would cause him. It's an illustration of the importance of pushing against any attempt to turn back the clock on women's rights. Including having a very low tolerance for misogynistic ideologies, however they're dressed up.
tit man Tarty T I've reacted with a sad face but it somehow it just doesn't cover it ♥
 
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It's a matter of legend in my family that my paternal grandmother died young because in the early 1960s her husband (not of any religious persuasion, just a deeply unpleasant man) had the power to decide that she shouldn't have potentially lifesaving heart surgery due to the inconvenience her convalescence would cause him. It's an illustration of the importance of pushing against any attempt to turn back the clock on women's rights. Including having a very low tolerance for misogynistic ideologies, however they're dressed up.
This is awful. I'm so sorry.

Some men are just total people.
 
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It's a matter of legend in my family that my paternal grandmother died young because in the early 1960s her husband (not of any religious persuasion, just a deeply unpleasant man) had the power to decide that she shouldn't have potentially lifesaving heart surgery due to the inconvenience her convalescence would cause him. It's an illustration of the importance of pushing against any attempt to turn back the clock on women's rights. Including having a very low tolerance for misogynistic ideologies, however they're dressed up.
How terrible 😞
I hope he was greatly inconvenienced after she died young!
 
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It just shows that our rights have been won so recently.

Always worth remembering a woman could not get a mortgage in her name in the 1970s. GPs often refused birth control to unmarried women (I got judged for needing in the 80s). grape in marriage was perfectly legal in Scotland until the mid 90s.

we’ve been treated like autonomous beings for only like the last 2 decades really, not long before men started trying to push us back down by skin walking us
 
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My mother was fired from her job when she married in the 1950s as the assumption was that married women would immediately have children. It was perfectly legal.
 
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It's a matter of legend in my family that my paternal grandmother died young because in the early 1960s her husband (not of any religious persuasion, just a deeply unpleasant man) had the power to decide that she shouldn't have potentially lifesaving heart surgery due to the inconvenience her convalescence would cause him. It's an illustration of the importance of pushing against any attempt to turn back the clock on women's rights. Including having a very low tolerance for misogynistic ideologies, however they're dressed up.
My mum had major surgery in the 1960's, can't remember how long she was in hospital but do remember my dad taking us three kids for visits. My maternal grandmother came from Glasgow to stay with us until mum came home. Gold medal for granny ❤
 
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This poor baby should be taken away from these disgusting people. What kind of woman has a baby to allow her fetish driven husband to sexually abuse it?
 
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My mother was fired from her job when she married in the 1950s as the assumption was that married women would immediately have children. It was perfectly legal.
I've posted this before....went for a job interview (clerical office work) in 1983 and the manager had the gall to ask me if I was planning to get pregnant! The female employees outnumbered the men by 7 to 1, guess that office had seen lots of maternity leave. Served the misogynist manager right!
 
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I've posted this before....went for a job interview (clerical office work) in 1983 and the manager had the gall to ask me if I was planning to get pregnant! The female employees outnumbered the men by 7 to 1, guess that office had seen lots of maternity leave. Served the misogynist manager right!
In 1983, my boss asked me to undo a few extra buttons on my shirt when I was serving coffee to clients. I was 18 🤮
 
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He never remarried, but his daughter
Probably remarried very quickly - some other easily bullied woman so he hardly missed a meal.
You'd expect it, because that sort usually do, but he never remarried. His daughter moved in with her husband and, over time, three children, and stayed for around 10 years, then he lived in semi-squalor and resentment until he died at 78. Karma never came calling.
 
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Words cannot express how precious this woman is nor how important she has been to this fight.

Also have you noticed how no one ever recovers from one of her verbal lashings. Emma Watson's career as never been th same
There's only one celebrity I consider myself in a para-social adoration relationship with...JKR. She is a Queen. Is she perfect? No. Is she witty? Yes. Is she brave? Absolutely. A wonderful woman.

All other celebs are a disappointment in general :D
 
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My mother was fired from her job when she married in the 1950s as the assumption was that married women would immediately have children. It was perfectly legal.
My mother, unusually for the time, continued to work after getting married in 1961. She stopped a few years later when she was pregnant, but applied to go back when I was a year old. The matron of the hospital (she was a nurse) visited our home to make sure my father was happy for her to go out to work, then visited my mother's parents to check that there was a suitable childcare safety net in place in case Dad couldn't cope. (He did, he was brilliant.)
 
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Only 20 years ago I was asked at a job interview if I was married. It was 2006, I only remember the date exactly as I got the job and Steve Irwin died not long after. It's illegal to ask the married status of an interviewee.

I remember blurting out "Yes I am" and kicking myself later for not telling them that that was an inappropriate question and would they have asked a man.
 
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I've posted previously about one of my aunts.

She and my father were the same age. Both attended university and obtained degrees in the early 1950's. Both maintained professional careers until retirement.

The difference? My father married. My aunt did not.
It's only in recent years that it occurred to me that she would almost certainly have lost her job if she had.

This is only one generation away.
 
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I've posted previously about one of my aunts.

She and my father were the same age. Both attended university and obtained degrees in the early 1950's. Both maintained professional careers until retirement.

The difference? My father married. My aunt did not.
It's only in recent years that it occurred to me that she would almost certainly have lost her job if she had.

This is only one generation away.
And it isn't just the frustration of being denied a satisfying career, or an enjoyable job - it's the financial dependence that it forces women into. Women were so reliant on ment if they even want to buy themselves a pair of knickers.

Women, until comparatively recently, were paid less for doing the same work as men, as well.
 
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I've posted previously about one of my aunts.

She and my father were the same age. Both attended university and obtained degrees in the early 1950's. Both maintained professional careers until retirement.

The difference? My father married. My aunt did not.
It's only in recent years that it occurred to me that she would almost certainly have lost her job if she had.

This is only one generation away.
The younger generation forget just how much we and our mother’s and grandmother’s fought for their rights that they want to throw away in the name of be kind movement
 
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