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BadassLet's share stories about women from our families
The best way to honor their history is to remember them! Here are the stories that inspired me to make this thread:
My mother's mother's mother was a college-educated woman in the 1910s. She caused scandal in her social circle when she willingly left 'civilization' of eastern Massachusetts to the 'wilderness' of western Mass, "where the Indians still live." She did so to teach in a schoolhouse. She took a room at a boarding house, and fell head-over-heels in love with the son of the family that ran the boarding house. They got married, and bought a farm. I'm told she was happy being a farmer's wife. They had five children, 1 son and 4 daughters. My grandmother was the youngest, born during the Great Depression, 15 years younger than her brother. My great-uncle was a working farmboy, yet my Great-Grandmother gave all her children equal-sized portions of food. (Granted, the working farmboy should have been given twice the amount of food than the literal baby 🤨)
Both great-grandparents believed in women's suffrage, they marched for women's right to vote. They raised their children to value education: all 4 daughters went to college.
Their 2nd-youngest daughter, my great-aunt, grew up to be a teacher who decided she wanted to teach in every state. And she did. I'm told she drove up through Canada in order to teach in Alaska!
Please share some of your own đź’–
He also hated Jews.
He was a man of his time, a very typical man of his time.
He was a man, and just that.
Disney was not an anti-Semite. No evidence of this exists, nor of his being abusive to his wife.
He left 45% of his estate to his wife and two daughters, 43% to a charitable foundation, and 10% to extended family. He started the company with his brother, today the family owns just 3% of the company, which still amounts to many billions of $$.
He was a man of his time. Did racist, misogynist and anti-Semitic tropes exist in Disney films? Yes, by our standards. This letter reflects that time. I knew a lot of older women who had stories of being told, for example, why they weren't welcome to attend medical school, because "it would be a waste of time, we'll put all that effort into training you, and you'll get married, have children and quit." I knew women who were among the first to go to formerly men's only grad schools who were not warmly welcomed.
Because their religion said girls can’t inherit or because the daughters were a different religion than him?
Because they converted to a different religion from him... They became Roman Catholics I think...
For the record, Catholics don't exclude women and girls from inheritance.
Inter-generational family wealth transfer is just public property theft anyway so you should be lauding that he cut his kids off.
More likely it went to some male nephews or male cousins then? Not great.
If the government actually returned any of that to the people, for the people, then we could laud it.
Another post above says he spilt almost half between his wife and daughters, put almost half into a foundation he created, and the last 10% was spilt up between many extended family members. His will is actually online and copies have been sold at auction. His grandkids have actually had legal battles over the money.
She wasn’t discriminated on the basis of an imaginary inside speshul feeling. She was denied the job because her SEX is female. It’s sexism, not genderism.