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“I’ve worked hard for a certain lifestyle and I don’t want to feel like I have to downgrade,” she wrote on Mumsnet Erica Gerald Mason is a programming editor at PEOPLE, where she serves as ...

You can laugh it off as just goofy stuff, but I think we have to take a closer look. The tropes of “women being bad at math and with money” are alive and well in this seemingly goofy practice.

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As the one comment alluded to, the fact that the woman was asked to make relatively small payments of less than 10,000 yen at a time probably made her more willing to take the risk. When you think ...