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59. Now that I think about it

Sat May 18, 2013, 09:46 PM

May 2013

Where I was at the time, northern Indiana, the sexual enlightenment really came to the fore after the women's liberation movement. There was a lot more focus on gender and what it meant. I remember Mike on "All in the Family" carrying a bag that looked like a purse and thinking at the time that was a little much, but the fact that it was brought up at all was indicative of what was going on. Then there was the Monty Python thing with all the cross-dressing, and wasn't that also the time of "Bosom Buddies"? I had a sense at the time that all we could be remembered for when people looked back on the 70s was our obsession with nostalgia ("American Graffiti", 50s bands on "In Concert&quot . In other words, nothing remarkable enough was happening to remember the period for itself (except maybe "Whip Inflation Now" buttons). So yes, I agree it was transitional.

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