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One would assume, since the phrase "bra-burning feminist" exists, that at some point in this nation's history a feminist famously burned a bra. Not so! NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce explains that "bra-burning" is a myth. Oh, the women who gathered on the boardwalk to protest the Miss America pageant in 1968 wanted to burn a bra — and a girdle, and a mop, and an issue of Playboy magazine, — stuff they called "instruments of female torture." They threw all of it into a big garbage can. "We had intended to burn it, but the police department, since we were on the boardwalk, wouldn't let us do the burning," Carol Hanisch, one of the organizers of the protest, tells NPR. "I often say that if they had called us 'girdle burners,' every woman in America would have run to join us." More »
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