Word: braless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...base's gates on March 21 in a bid for more severance pay, the barmaids found themselves separated from their main source of income. But the women finally took matters into their own hands. A large band of irate bar girls, many dressed in tight-fitting shorts and braless tops, stormed the picket line at the Clark base. In short order the ladies dispersed the strikers and set the G.I.s free. Their uprising, however, did not stop the strike, which finally ended three days later...
...defendants also called DiPietro "extremely suggestive" and a friend of thers at the party said she was braless and wore a revealing dress. But the waitress who served her and the three doctors at a coffee-shop on the road back from Rockport said she dremembered the woman in the group as wearing a severe shift, the top half of which was rumpled and covered with tint...
...without the id. Oliver (Sam Waterston) and Nora (Susan Kellermann) have rented the upper half of a Southampton beach house that Designer Oliver Smith must have had in mind for Neiman-Marcus. Oliver is a marriage counselor. He may have counseled his mother and father. Nora is a leggy, braless blond goddess with a slightly crisp manner. She tells Oliver that she is going to visit her mother, but actually she is going to see the Big Bad Wolf...
...partisan name calling on the house floor that raised doubts about whether ERA supporters could ever get the crucial two votes. Matijevich angrily accused Thompson of having "provided virtually nothing." Republican representatives booed noisily. The next day, Thomas Hanahan, a Democrat from rural McHenry, who once described feminists as "braless, brainless broads," accused ERA supporters of attempting to bribe waffling legislators with offers of big campaign contributions; he provided no evidence. Proponents accused him, in turn, of trying to frighten fence sitters into opposing the amendment...
Finally, both porn and rape are based on a view that women are there for the taking, available to be possessed, "asking for it." A rapist may claim that he attacked a woman because she "asked for it"...by wearing tight jeans, a halter top, even going braless. Only when women are perceived as purely sexual creatures can their individual will be so ignored, and can the victim be blamed for the acts of the aggressor...