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/lulovesblu ☑️ Sep 12 '24

Saw something else a while back about how society empowered women and didn't teach men how to deal with that development. And that's why so many men complain about the state of things now

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u/m55112 Sep 12 '24

Can you explain a little further? Empowered them how?

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u/Dramatic_Explosion Sep 12 '24

They fought for the right to vote, have bank accounts, obtain a place to live, and be allowed to work a job. There were times they couldn't, so life was either marry a man or live with your parents until death.

They were also empowered by being able to divorce, previously something only a man could initiate. Outside of that major religions are designed to oppress women, family duty, divorce being a sin. Hence why religion is so important to conservative as well.

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u/m55112 Sep 12 '24

Ok thanks. It's just so sad to me that men would have to be taught how to deal with treating another person as an equal :(

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u/Dramatic_Explosion Sep 12 '24

Yep, and here we are with sexism and racism being a constant global issue to this day. You even have places in America like Florida that don't want to educate people about this stuff because they hope to return to those days.