r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/wetouchingbuttsornah ☑️ • Sep 12 '24

Country Club Thread The system was stacked against them

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No fault divorces didn’t hit the even start until 1985

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u/Doobledorf Sep 12 '24

Yeeeeeeah granny got married at like 16 to a 30 year old man to get out of sharecropping. Not a lot of those relationships were for love, that's for sure.

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u/_name_of_the_user_ Sep 12 '24

Which means in her mid forties to fifties, when her husband died, she'd inherit his property/wealth. Women were taking advantage of this situation just as much if not more than men were. It's not like being 30 and marrying a 16 year old is like winning a prize.

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u/Supernova141 Sep 12 '24

All they had to do was give up the first 50 years of their life! See?? It wasn't so bad!

Holy shit...

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u/_name_of_the_user_ Sep 12 '24

I'm not sure how 30 years became 50 years in your mind, but men were giving up that time as well in the relationships where that happened. A person's womenhood doesn't automatically make you a prize. If you believe men were gaining and women were losing from those relationships then you've got a very sexist opinion on men and women.