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Women in the USSR were in space before American women could open a bank account (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
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[–] 10 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

The meme also implies that USSR women had access to space. Both ends of the meme are not a strictly accurate comparison, just a "funny" way of saying that women in USA didn't have universal access to banking guaranteed by a country-wide law up until the space race.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    To each their own.

    I would also point out that it's incredibly unlikely any women critical of the Party, or with husbands who were critical of the Party, were allowed to be astronauts.

    So, I felt some context to demonstrate that American women had been banking for a hundred+ years by the time there were Soviet astronauts.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Exactly.

    A bit like saying North Koreans have nuclear weapons while black ppl in USA are discriminated against.

    While it is a fact, it's also clear that the situation in USA is a bit better than 200 years ago whilst the average DPRKean does in fact not have access to a nuclear weapon.

    I don't think ppl on Lemmy would think no woman in USA had a bank account prior to the (19)70s. Just as they wouldn't think USSR shipped millions of female tourists to space.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago

    I don’t think ppl on Lemmy would think no woman in USA had a bank account prior to the (19)70s.

    You have more faith than I do. Right now, someone is explaining to me in another thread how donald trump is actually part of a deep conspiracy with the Dems to keep elections electronic so they can both rig them...

    People are really dumb.

    And the link I posted does not at any point say that all women had access to all banking forever, simply that there is a lot of context that's missed by claims like this, that come up reasonably frequently.

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