You posted a "fact" that is not in any way dispositive of what you want to prove. Despite what your link claims, neither of my grandmothers, one married and one single, had any problem what so ever obtaining "charge plates."
That kind of bumbling logical oversight demonstrates your demeanor was...what?
Hmmm... I don't think the article made a claim that "papertyer's grandmothers had problems obtaining charge plates."
Rather, it said,
"Many banks required single, divorced or widowed women to bring a man along with them to cosign for a credit card . . ."
It didn't claim that ALL women were denied credit.
That kind of bumbling logical oversight demonstrates your demeanor was...what?
I'm not the one who made a logical oversight. :P
You were talking about history and wanted some evidence, so I found an article. I wasn't part of your original discussion, but here's how it went (correct me if I'm wrong): Your discussion began when someone pointed out that divorce wasn't so common in the old days. The response to that point was that women couldn't divorce so easily in the old days. And that's how the subject of credit, for example, was introduced to show why divorce wasn't an option for many women back then.
So, papertyger, the question for you is... Do you think women could divorce just as easily in the old days?
(For the record, I avoid using credit cards. If I don't have the cash for something, I don't buy it.)