Jessica Valenti, founder and editor of Feministing, recently told the New York Times Sunday Magazine bra-burning is a myth. This I did not know! She said:
"Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners."
We doubled checked, and Snopes — the Internet's definitive, if sadly designed, myth-busting site — confirms bra-burning never happened. Born out of the 1968 Miss America protest and the dissent du jour being draft-card-burning, a journalist, hungry for a headline, coined the phrase. However, NPR talked to Carol Hanisch, an organizer of the protest, last year and she said, "We had intended to burn it, but the police department, since we were on the boardwalk, wouldn't let us do the burning." Oh, well — maybe the next myth will be true!
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Lies! there all lies!
1I never got why bra burning was a feminist movement anyway. I love my bras, they make me comfortable rather than confine. Make it easier to run, dress, get rid of back pain...etc...and they are cute!
2I'm with zeze. My bras are my friends.
3Right, most bras are not contraptions invented by the Man to keep women down (though I have owned a couple that fit like torture devices).
They dumped their bras, along with girdles, cosmetics, and high-heels, which all together makes more sense as a statement. But bare breasts and bra-burning makes for a more sensational story, those crazy feminists.
4I wish that thong burning would happen, though.
5I learned this reading "In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution" by Susan Brownmiller. If you want a great read that's also a wonderful, truthful first-hand account of the women's liberation movement, I can't reccommend it enough!
6Ha, fuzzles! I'm with you on that one.
7Back when I was in a summer program in my teens, a few girls actually did burn one of their bras. So it did happen, at least once. Of course, they were just trying to copy the "hippies" of the 60's, who we now know never did burn bras.
8bizarre...I love bras! lol
9i dont know bras are super cute n they make me fell comfortable i cant live without them!i like how they catch boys attention also sometimes i hate it cuz guys rub up against you just to feel them(THAT MAKES ME SO MAD!!!)
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