She's Beautiful When She's Angry Page #3

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.

Especially men don't like it.

They're very threatened by it.

Women's Lib really is a

lot of insignificant people

that are really trying to

gain their own interests

and boost their own ego,

be it by making brash statements

or being on television or what have you.

You're so oversensitive.

Why are you so sensitive?

We don't like being so

sensitive. It's not pleasant.

We don't like having to always be catching

things. We'd rather they didn't exist.

But as long as people are going

to be insensitive to our position,

we're going to have to

keep correcting them,

because there's no other way

to change the consciousness.

Women, given their educational status,

can earn 60% of what men

of the same education can.

What that really means is that a woman

with college education... BA...

earns what a man does who has

three years of high school.

This is economic

discrimination and exploitation.

Women, as well as men,

told me I was wrong over and over again.

Women are not oppressed.

Or what does it matter?

Who cares? You have a lot of influence.

You were working against cultural norms.

You were working against institutions.

MAN:
How do you feel

about women's liberation?

Woman's place is more at home

than to advance herself too much.

I know the girls in my

office feel the way I do.

We're all right the way we are.

There's nothing wrong with this.

I'm totally against it.

I feel I don't know what

they're being liberated from.

WILLIS:
Many women protested

that they liked cooking and

housework and catering to men.

But I would argue with some woman

who was being extremely

defensive about the movement,

and then six months later would

run into her at a demonstration.

Power

Power to the women

It's the women's power

It's the women's power

The status quo is being challenged

by the women's liberation movement.

Today it's still a man's world.

SANDERS:
I started getting word from

people I knew in the movement by then,

and as I heard about these things

I was able to go out and shoot them.

SANDERS:
They startled Wall Street one day

by an exhibition in

which roles were reversed.

Oh, they're so beautiful, all of them. Ah!

Those men, those sex objects.

WOMAN:
It was reported in the newspaper

that there was a woman who

worked in the Wall Street area.

She was very well endowed

and men would wait for her

outside the Wall Street train station.

And they would pinch her,

- make sucking noises at her.

- (men chattering, cheering)

And I thought, this is pretty disgusting.

Oh, wow. Look at the legs on that one!

So I organized what I rather grandly

called the First National Ogle-In.

Those pants, they just bring out your best.

- WOMAN:
Hey, how do you like that hat over there?

- Oh, what a chapeau!

All the very clever events

helped the women's movement a lot.

Keep your best leg

forward, sweetie! (kisses)

SANDERS:
Now, it isn't my taste to do the kind

of demonstrations and things some of them did.

But I was always sort of

gleeful about it underneath

and I thought, you know, go for it.

- Look at that long hair!

- Oh, it's a hippie on Wall Street.

Oh, I'm so turned on.

We're trying to point out what

it feels like to be whistled at,

put down constantly, sexually,

every time we walk down the street.

And we don't want to be

sexual objects anymore.

- Is love out? Is sex out?

- Unless men change, it's going to be very soon.

Unlike NOW, we didn't

want a piece of the pie.

We wanted to change the pie.

WOLFSON:
We were talking about changing

the whole paradigm of the

way men and women interact.

SANDERS:
What about marriage?

WOMAN:
Marriage is, uh, unpaid labor.

It's a free household slave for each man.

It will take a major social revolution

for women to be truly liberated.

GIARDINA:
We began to

reinterpret the whole world.

It seemed that male supremacy and

male chauvinism was everywhere.

And it was.

What's your general feeling about

the National Organization

of Women's complaints?

(chuckles)

To become a member of the Press Club,

you have to be 21 years

of age and be a male.

Leave, or police action will be

taken. We will make an arrest.

Now please leave.

I have no intentions of taking

the sign down or changing the sign.

If you can get a court

order to take it down, fine.

So you have no intention of changing

your policy of segregated facilities.

Is that correct, sir?

There's a sign out there

now. Come on. Let's go.

- Do you discriminate by sex?

- MAN:
Come on. Let's get out of here.

Come on, toots.

WOMAN:
He has repeatedly

used his law classroom

to espouse that women do

not make good attorneys,

that they're too emotional,

they're vindictive.

WOLFSON:
We were angry.

Maybe the anger is what carried

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