What did feminists do with their bras? Detailed answer

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What did feminists do with their bras?

No, not this. Perhaps the most significant feminist protest in history took place in 1968 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Miss America beauty pageant.

A small group of demonstrators picketed the spectacle with provocative slogans such as "Let's evaluate ourselves as human beings" and "Look at this cutie: she makes money from her own meat."

They brought a live sheep with them and crowned it Miss America, then threw their stilettos, bras, curlers and brow tweezers into the Liberty Trash Can.

But here's something, and the demonstrators' bras weren't burned for sure. Yes, they wanted to, but the police advised against building a fire on a wooden deck, citing a fire hazard.

The bra-burning myth began with an article by a young American journalist from the New York Post named Lindsey van Gelder.

In 1992, she gave an interview to the women's magazine Ms.:

"Yes, I mentioned with delight that the demonstrators were going to burn their bras, garter belts and other underwear in the trash can ... However, the editor who came up with the headline for the article decided to go even further and called them "bra burners"" .

The title was enough. Journalists across America seized on the idea without bothering to read the article itself. Van Gelder created a real newspaper frenzy.

Even such conscientious publications as the Washington Post fell into the trap.

They even identified members of the National Women's Rights Group as those who allegedly "burned their underwear during a protest in Atlantic City at the recent Miss America beauty pageant."

Today, this case is used as a classic example in the study of how modern myths are born.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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