• inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 days ago

      Wasn’t spinster some old school slang in like the 1920s or something about women who didn’t settle down right away? Or am I hallucinating

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        22 days ago

        It’s quite a bit older than that. 1800s, I believe? A “spinster” was a women who got a job spinning/weaving fabric, which was one of the few jobs women were allowed at the time, and they were paid for it! Very well, iirc.

        So a woman earning her own income and able to support herself, not being required to marry in order to live comfortably.