... it usually ... and rightly so ... conjures up an image like this ...

But, in this case, it was a protesting feminist down in Mexico. She does throw like a girl ... and she did ... much to the dismay of her fellow protestors.
http://twitter.com/i/status/1236829639118434304
http://dailycaller.com/2020/03/11/mexico-feminist-firebomb/

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence