The Women of Brokeback Mountain
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JayHysterio — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 03:02 PM)
Nope. In lieu of no other heirs, it would've legally been her company no matter what the times were back then, and you know damn well her Dad would've excluded Jack from ownership. She knew the books and contacts and the business, all Jack knew was selling, he never rose above being a salesman.
It proves my point about Jack being weak, he never would've had a job like that without Lureen, he'd still be a ranch hand. She gave him a good living. He stayed in an unhappy marriage under her dad's abuse and his subservience to Lureen. A real man would've walked.
And in any case, from what we know Lureen never cheated on him. Jack cheated on her with several, including the guy from the dance that he actually brought home to meet his parents. So he actually cheated on Ennis too.
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jaroslaw99 — 9 years ago(September 27, 2016 01:20 PM)
Things were very different for women until the mid 1970s - for example banks could and did refuse credit cards to single women and even married women needed their husbands to cosign.
Without a prenup, Lureen's father could not have excluded Jack from ownership, he was her husband. -
Phydeaux50 — 9 years ago(September 27, 2016 08:56 PM)
The OP is indulging in revisionist history, if we are to take him seriously. It was a man's world. I would say for better of for worse, but as an old school feminist, it was worse.
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jaroslaw99 — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 05:27 AM)
Agreed. And a lot of women bought into it too. My paternal grandmother, despite being divorced - extremely rare in those days and especially among farm people, she left the telephone listing in my grandfather's name. Women felt they needed a man between them and the world. That is exactly how she put it. Which was strange, since she ran the farm herself (with older teen sons), did Uncle Don's books for his business - he was the oldest. She was very self sufficient.
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Phydeaux50 — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 11:20 PM)
http://junkee.com/fake-holden-commercial-perfect-pisstake-gender-stereotypes-advertising/86629
The bit about who owns the farm
All the little devils are proud of Hell.