Classified US Intelligence Chat Rooms a 'Dumpster Fire' of Hate Speech, Says Ex-NSA Contractor

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35. Cal,

I don't think the younger generations understand or truly realize what can happen... and that we're on the road currently towards it happening.

Those of us women who are 60+ should remember well those days when we couldn't have a credit card in our name, nor a bank account. Nor could we buy or hold property in our name. Crap, here in KS, in the 80's, I had to have my husband notarize a notice giving me the okay to license our car at the DMV!

I remember who swaths of job types and career fields being denied women because they could cause harm to an unborn child. This, even if childbearing was not on the menu for the woman at all, for whatever reason. And if you were too old to have a child, you were basically treated as worthless.

To escape this, I went into a newly opened field to women in the military. But even being Active Duty didn't give me any privileges in the private world. When we bought our first house, my husband's name was on the title, but not mine as owner.

This is the world we lived in... where abortions were performed in back alleys and basements. Where if you married outside your race, you kept to your house and weren't seen in town together, yet you were gossiped about endlessly. We've talked to our kids and grandkids about this, but they haven't lived it. I don't think they can envision what it means to live like that; or that it can so readily happen to them. Lack of imagination? I don't know. I only know my own daughter doesn't exhibit the kind of concern that I'd expect to see from her at this point on the road to oblivion. (sigh)