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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I consider myself a feminist but not a burn your bra type[/b]. I don’t consider my husband to be a feminist but he’s always lets me be me and is very supportive and helpful. He’s also been very supportive of our daughters’ career goals. [/quote]

&lt;sigh&gt; [b]Bra burning is a misogynistic myth[/b].  I don't mean this in a snarky way but it's sad that so many people, especially allies, perptuate a falsehood that ridicules and demeans the fight for gender equality. It perpetuates the prioritization of men as history makers.

It's also another example of how diminishing the incredible accomplishments of women fighting for gender equality and the radical change it has on society.  It is thanks to this Second Wave of Feminists that we have access to contraception, get our own credit cards, don't have to change our names when we get married, prevents institutions that receive federal funding from excluding students from participating in educational and athletic programs on the basis of sex. And, importantly, it resulted in the criminalization of marital rape and the recognition of gay marriage.

The origin of the misogynist myth is the protest of the 1969 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City.  [i]"Bras were just one of the items protestors were encouraged to bring that day that signified how the male-dominated culture was keeping women locked into rigid ideas of beauty, but they weren’t burned. Starting a fire on the boardwalk was illegal, so protestors opted to [toss] Playboy magazines and other items in a Freedom Trash Can. Still, the bra-burning image remained—a symbol that was easy to belittle as women focusing on something trivial. Misinformation and myths sometimes serve as placeholders in our memory when facts are not remembered."[/i] [From [u]Feminisim Has a Bra-Burning Myth Problem[/u] https://time.com/2853184/feminism-has-a-bra-burning-myth-problem/]

Other items that were tossed into the Freedom Trash Can were girdles, curlers, false eyelashes, wigs, and issues of women's magazines

[i]The image of brassieres going into a trash can was captured in a memorable photograph, along with some print references to bra-burning, which melded into not-so-accurate memories now so seemingly vivid in recall. Contemporaneous reporting indicates that some bras did burn at least briefly when a trash receptacle was set alight, but that trash can contained numerous other items as well -- there was no reported separate or distinct action of feminists' pointedly setting bras alone ablaze as a defiant symbol of liberation.[/i] [From Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/feminist-bra-burning/]

There are many, many articles confirming this - just Google it.  A quote from a female report on the scene was parsed by a male editor to sensationalize and trivialize that protest and the overall movement.  Snopes has a condensed, easy to read report about it. 
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