Yep. I’m 10 years younger than you at 60. But even so when I was 21 I had to fight to get a credit card in my name and was not successful. Even though I was employed with a steady income and no missed payment or delinquency issues, since I was not married, the only way they would give me one was if my father signed for me or my 16 year o…
Yep. I’m 10 years younger than you at 60. But even so when I was 21 I had to fight to get a credit card in my name and was not successful. Even though I was employed with a steady income and no missed payment or delinquency issues, since I was not married, the only way they would give me one was if my father signed for me or my 16 year old brother! While either of them likely would have signed for me, I refused to do it. Finally a few years later, after I moved to a different area where the attitudes toward women were more flexible I was able to get one in my own name without a male co-signer’s signature. When I bought my first house, the mortgage paperwork signature block listed my name and then labeled me as “an unmarried woman”. I asked them if they included the label “unmarried man” on single male mortgage signers and was told no, they didn’t. When I balked at signing it with the label they said I could take it or leave it but they weren’t changing it. They were sure they could sell the house to a more cooperative person. I signed the damn thing, but now almost 30 years later it still pisses me off when thinking about it. It seems our currency situation is attempting to set us back even further than that and it makes me nauseous with anger.
To you and Laurie both: I just turned 70 and it is hard to see "civilization" deteriorating. Yet not that far back to fall, scarily. Remember: we females were only considered human enough to vote in 1920. Black men had been enfranchised 50 years before. Susan B. Anthony couldn't testify in her defense when charged with criminal voting because no female was legally competent to be a witness at law. So recently, women couldn't own property, couldn't inherit, had no rights to the children of their body, and marriage was legal sex-slavery. So I guess we have made some headway, but how trivial a distance in historical time to fall back!
Yep. I’m 10 years younger than you at 60. But even so when I was 21 I had to fight to get a credit card in my name and was not successful. Even though I was employed with a steady income and no missed payment or delinquency issues, since I was not married, the only way they would give me one was if my father signed for me or my 16 year old brother! While either of them likely would have signed for me, I refused to do it. Finally a few years later, after I moved to a different area where the attitudes toward women were more flexible I was able to get one in my own name without a male co-signer’s signature. When I bought my first house, the mortgage paperwork signature block listed my name and then labeled me as “an unmarried woman”. I asked them if they included the label “unmarried man” on single male mortgage signers and was told no, they didn’t. When I balked at signing it with the label they said I could take it or leave it but they weren’t changing it. They were sure they could sell the house to a more cooperative person. I signed the damn thing, but now almost 30 years later it still pisses me off when thinking about it. It seems our currency situation is attempting to set us back even further than that and it makes me nauseous with anger.
To you and Laurie both: I just turned 70 and it is hard to see "civilization" deteriorating. Yet not that far back to fall, scarily. Remember: we females were only considered human enough to vote in 1920. Black men had been enfranchised 50 years before. Susan B. Anthony couldn't testify in her defense when charged with criminal voting because no female was legally competent to be a witness at law. So recently, women couldn't own property, couldn't inherit, had no rights to the children of their body, and marriage was legal sex-slavery. So I guess we have made some headway, but how trivial a distance in historical time to fall back!