A reminder that after no fault divorce was finally legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%.🤯
The "strong 1950s family unit" GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating domestic violence, & zero female financial autonomy.
@QasimRashid People don't realize what life was like for women in the US within living memory. My mother is an active, healthy septuagenarian. When she got married, her bank cancelled her credit card and unilaterally gave my dad sole control over her accounts (and therefore her paycheck), and this was normal. We had no access to the banking system without men's permission and no right even to our own wages. We were legal dependents with no option to be otherwise.
@knottedthreads@QasimRashid I had to get my Dad to co-sign my car notes until I bought my third car. Banks didn’t want to give women loans. That’s what the Republicans want to return to
@QasimRashid It is their goal.
But also there's some reason that the poisoning of husbands dropped off after the mid-twentieth century. I guess they're forgetting that.
In the same way that industrialists have forgotten the old-tyme alternative to union bargaining.
@violetmadder@AlexanderVI@Mug4924@QasimRashid so is their 14-month-old account with a [single-word + 4-digits] name, (random?) profile picture, no bio text or banner, and 2 whole posts.
Thanks for the reminder to check the axis, by the way. I never think to do so.
The graph is probably accurate but I'm more curious about who made it than who posted it, and curious why they stretched the time in a way that flattens the rising trend in recent years.
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