The bra burning was a creation of the newspapers invented before the protest even began. And that detail matters because it meant the women's liberation movement was defined by a caricature before it could define itself.
I think of the baby woman as kind of like the evil twin of the girlboss. And I think baby womanhood is the complete opposite of of the girlboss in that it's saying, I do not want any of these responsibilities. Just take them away. Someone else do it.
And it is these beautiful, young, white women that best identify not so much the subject of the United States, but the objects to be fought over, judged, to be inspired by, but less so subjects of their own lives in those moments.
