• Evil_Shrubbery
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    22 hours ago

    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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      21 hours ago

      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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        21 hours ago

        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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          21 hours 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.