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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Yeah, that "bit" of nuance is that it's not true.

Some banks forbade women from opening bank accounts in states where the right wasn't already guaranteed until the 1974 federal passing of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act guaranteed the right to all citizens.

It sucks. But, don't lie. We don't manipulate. We teach.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So it was true in some parts of the US ...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

All the more reason to just be accurate and say "banks were still allowed to deny opening accounts for a woman" rather than say "women couldn't hold bank accounts until 1974," which just isn't true. The truth is still plenty bad, we don't need to pull a Vance card.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If it happened in some states, then it happened, nothing misleading about saying it happened.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I disagree entirely, I understood it as "no women were allowed to have a bank account anywhere in America before 1974" and I guarantee I'm not the only one. The very existence of this discussion thread proves your statement wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't think that's the point in dispute, but that's not what the quoted post is saying.

"Women weren't allowed to open a bank account in the USA until 1974" implies that, until the year 1974, there were no women in the US who had opened bank accounts.

The more accurate statement would be "The right for women in the US to open bank accounts wasn't nationally established until 1974," which aligns with the reality wherein many American women were still able to open bank accounts before then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That's not what was said, though. "Some banks weren't legally required to let women open bank accounts" is a very different statement than "women couldn't open bank accounts."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What would you call it when the ability to deny accounts to women was present and practiced?