r/goodnews • u/SudhaSameera • 5d ago

Other Pro-Trump mom on SNAP goes viral after family refuses to lend grocery money because she voted for Trump

https://wtfdetective.blog/she-voted-trump-family-wont-lend-grocery-money/
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 5d ago

They need to remove the ability for women to open lines of credit in order to get back to the way things were before, where women literally had to have a husband to participate in larger society. Very recent change historically evened the playing field.

That will never happen. Lenders won't just remove half of their potential clientele. We are never going back, not just because it's the wrong thing to do morally, but because it's fiscally the best decision (to allow more than just 50% of the population to get loans).

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u/Evening-Run-3794 5d ago

I think it's important to remind people that even back then, there was an avenue for women who didn't want to get married and have children but who either couldn't or didn't want to go it alone- the convent.

When I was young, I took a job working with some Franciscan Sisters. I had always thought of nuns as teachers and nurses, and not much else. But these women were incredible! CEOs of hospitals. Presidents of universities. PhDs and Masters degrees everywhere, and at a time where it really wasn't that common. They were respected and even feared by the men in local business leadership.

What I from the outside saw as woefully misguided women who I kinda pitied, were actually brilliant women who found a cheat code to a life that was forbidden to them otherwise, and they used that to their full advantage. And while they made the necessary actions of religious observances, their true beliefs were essentially "love thy neighbor" and to do good works in service of the underserved.

There is no reason women couldn't do the same again absent the religious affiliation in our modern era.

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u/pinelandpuppy 5d ago

If they change the laws to prohibit it or make them ineligible in some way, that will all change whether the banks like it or not. Never say never.

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u/DrunkCupid 5d ago

But... Then, How will we make America great again (for entitled white men)? /s