9 Ridiculous Things Women Were Once Forbidden From Doing

[True Earthling]

Although sexism still exists, women have come a long way since the days of being barred from jury duty or banned from smoking in public.

http://allday.com/post/6776-9-ridiculous-things-women-were-once-forbidden-from-doing/

Get A Credit Card
Surve On Jury Duty
Take Oral Contraception
Wear Reasonable And Comfortable Swimsuits
Work While Pregnant
Smoke In Public
Run In The Boston Marathon
Be An Astronaut
Watch The Olympics

[Codeine]

1. Participate in mass shootings. nt

[LanternWaste]

7. I think both men and women are yet still forbidden from participating in mass shootings.

I think both men and women are yet still forbidden from participating in mass shootings.

[snooper2]

13. 98% of mass shootings are done by men. Make it mass murder and still rare,

Found stories about women in 17 & 1800s but even mass murder rare. Men are the dicks when it comes to killing.


VICE piece on mass shootings, women-

Brenda "I Don't Like Mondays" Spencer isn't just a mass killer; she was the first of the American school shooters. Shooting up a school is a stunt that, like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, people tend to forget got its start with a woman, or, more accurately, a 16 year-old girl. Her crime, the Cleveland Elementary School shooting, happened on January 29, 1979, in San Diego. She killed the principal and a custodian with a .22 rifle and wounded eight children. Fortunately, no children died.


Olga Hepnarová was a 22-year-old Czech woman who killed eight people by driving a truck into a crowd in Prague on July 10, 1973. Use of a car wasn't the only similarity to Elliot Rodger's crime: She also left mountains of written testimony about her motive, mainly revenge for perceived slights by a society that had misunderstood and abused her


Priscilla Ford took to a Reno sidewalk in her Lincoln on Thanksgiving Day of 1980, killing six. Unlike Hepnarová, she was far from cold and calculating, claiming in a court of law to be the reincarnation of Jesus and incapable of sin.


Jennifer San Marco: By 2006, "going postal" had been a phrase for 13 years. Postal was a successful video game franchise, and Uwe Boll's ill-fated movie adaptation was in production. With no apparent concern about being a cliché, on January 30 of that year, Jennifer San Marco forced her way into the postal processing plant where she formerly worked and killed seven people, and then herself, with a 9mm pistol.

https://www.vice.com/read/the-sparse-history-of-female-rampage-killers

[GummyBearz]

2. At least 1/3 still can't be done by women in saudi arabia :/

[Thinkingabout]

3. We were not able to vote either.

[packman]

4. Yah, and society has gone to hell

Counting down to getting post banned - 5,4,3,2, 1....

Just kidding , honest

[procon]

5. That barely scratches the surface.

In my lifetime women couldn't get a loan to buy a car or house in just her name. We couldn't wear pants in the workplace. Get a no fault divorce. Have a safe abortion. Get any form of birth control if single. Women expected that most jobs came with institutionalized sexual harassment. We could not enroll in the most prestigious, but male only, universities. Of course, we still earn less than men. Many sports were off limits because men said they were too strenuous for women. "Nice" women did not go to bars or restaurants by themselves. Even wearing more makeup than a plain lip gloss (remember "Tangee", that gross orange-ish tinted chapstick?) and a bit of mascara was a no-no.

[longship]

6. "You brazen hussey!"

That's another particular insidious one. Slut shaming.

Despicable!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

8. In 1964 my Mom had to have her father --

co-sign for her mortgage loan. Even though she was a Vice-President of a department at a bank. No fucking joke.

[procon]

10. Me too.

I was a twenty-something college grad in a good paying (for those days) professional career, and I had to go ask my Daddy to come to the bank with me and co-sign my car loan. When I bought my first house, I had to go get my Dad again. It was very humiliating. Naturally, I had to sit quietly with my ducklips pinched shut while dear old pops was reminiscing with the condescending banker about the "good old days" when women knew their place was to be a domestic servant with the added baby making option.

Aaargh!!!

[femmocrat]

9. Yes, I remember those days too.

And not fondly. I remember fighting to get my first credit card in MY name, sometime in the 1970s, I think. I also recall our local union fighting for women teachers to be able to wear pants suits. It had to have a matching jacket and pants. (We also had to wear pantyhose. No bare legs or open-toed shoes and the schools were not air-conditioned!)

[procon]

11. I'm still fond of pantsuits.

I was working at a large hospital in the early 70s and the nurses union was threatening a strike. One of their demands was the choice to wear uniforms with pants because their jobs required them to be so physical and a dress hampered their movements and impaired their ability to do their work. They also wanted to wear flat shoes -- tennis shoes and the like -- instead of stylish dress "pumps".

It was no surprize that the male dominated administration and physicians opposed women wearing pants, and some were even so bold as to admit they just wanted to look at women's legs. All the women employees were tired of men ogling their lady parts every time they bent over. Most the female staff joined the nurses in complaining about the men on staff looking up their skirts, groping them and making sexual innuendos, but it wasn't until flyers went up threatening to name the peepers that the board finally relented.

[olddots]

12. when I was seven I asked why human kind was called man kind

haven't heard a good answer yet .............

[JI7]

14. and the whole need to be "pure" or her life is over

and the dependency on a man just to survive.

yup, the "good ole days".

[KamaAina]

15. Drive An Automobile

Oh, wait, they're still forbidden from doing that in our rock-solid ally Saudi Arabia.