She's Beautiful When She's Angry Page #5

We want the university to provide us with

classes that teach us about our history.

ROSEN:
I was in the history department

and I knew zip, nada,

zero about women's history.

And we realized we didn't know very much

about women's literature or women's art.

In fact, we realized that we had gotten

degrees and we knew nothing about women.

Well, a group of us

decided to call the press.

We took our advanced degrees...

some were PhDs, some

were Masters degrees...

and we burned them in public.

That was a very hard thing to do

because we were very

proud of those degrees.

I need you to come

on, come on

ROSEN:
I felt so duped, like I

had been fooled my whole life.

(orchestra)

Oh, there she is

Miss America

SHULMAN:
Miss America seemed like

the perfect place to demonstrate

the way women were just

judged as sex objects,

just judged by their looks.

There were no such standards for men.

We also recognized how racist

those beauty standards were.

We weren't going to have any of it.

There'll be no Miss America

It was, all women are

beautiful. That was one of our slogans.

All women are beautiful.

There'll be no Miss America

We had a freedom trash can.

Guys were burning their draft cards.

We would burn our bras and other

instruments of female torture.

No more girdles, no more pain. No

more trying to hold in fat in vain!

CEBALLOS:
Even though I was in

NOW, I was always with the radicals.

If they're going to demonstrate for

Miss America, I'm going to be there.

Women, use your brains, not your bodies!

It was a blast. What can I

say? It was very exciting.

It was something NOW wouldn't do.

FOX:
They did things that were outrageous,

and some of us thought that

these would be made fun of.

And they were.

But they attracted media attention

and, of course, they got results.

(singing)

But the best part came when,

right at the moment when they

were about to crown Miss America,

the women who had snuck up into the balcony

unfurled this huge banner over the edge of

the balcony that said "Women's Liberation."

SHULMAN:
And the world

got to see those words

for the first time on a national scale.

It was a great success.

(women singing, indistinct)

The feminists here tonight do not believe

a women's place is in the home, right?

As feminists, what we

believe in is very simple,

and that is the social, economic

and political equality of the sexes.

Because the relationship between the sexes

is, in fact, a political relationship.

We are an oppressed group and

we have been through history.

If you do something as remarkable

as changing the relationship

between the sexes,

everything is at risk, every possible idea.

And many people don't like it.

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