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cbabe

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2. 100 Women: The truth behind the 'bra-burning' feminists

Reply to multigraincracker (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 15, 2022, 12:38 PM

Oct 2022

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45303069

100 Women: The truth behind the 'bra-burning' feminists

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But what stuck in the public consciousness about the protest was the image of the "bra-burning feminist" - something that paradoxically never actually happened.

Some women did throw underwear, including bras, into the Freedom Trash Can.

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On this day, October 15, 1965, a draft card was burned during an anti-war rally. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 OP

A few years later it became Burn That Bra. multigraincracker Oct 2022 #1

100 Women: The truth behind the 'bra-burning' feminists cbabe Oct 2022 #2