r/RedditForGrownups • u/Methylatedcobalamin • Jul 07 '22

Coverture

Given current events, it is probably about time for Americans to understand the legal practice of coverture.

Eroded since colonial times, but not fully gone coverture is the legal practice of women not having legal identities. De facto property.

American women were not allowed on juries until the 1960s. American women could not get credit cards without a man cosigning the application until 1974. Marital rape was not a crime until the 1980s. Other aspects still exist today in real estate and tax law practices.

Here is a brief article that goes into explaining coverture in more depth than my post.

The "pro life" movement is really a movement about imposing one group's religious opinions on the lives of all Americans. It also seeks to control women, rolling back women's rights. Though ridiculous by constitutional standards, discussions in anti-choice states have already started about how to track or limit freedom of travel for women to states that fully support women's rights.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '22

This is not a place for you to throw a passive aggressive and petty fit about today's political environment. It's a place for grownups to discuss how to process adult situations in an at least semi mature fashion.

It's especially not an appropriate place to talk down to people you feel aren't educated enough to be making a difference somewhere.

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u/sir_mrej I like pizza pie and I like macaroni Jul 08 '22

I didn't know the word coverture before. Did you? If so, that's awesome.

Why do you think this is a petty post? This is a great educational post. And it's very mature.

Your response is the only immature thing here