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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the sexual revolution which

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was a movement in the 60s to 80s as well as a more fun way of saying puberty yeah [Man transforms into young child and adolescent]

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and I take a look at the passage.....

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The cultural trend described in the excerpt was what and here your potential answers

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it's funny to think of the phrase homogeneous mass being used to describe

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a group of people instead of say yeah you know tablespoon of peanut butter but [Peanut butter on tablespoon]

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it actually fits there was a fear of being perceived as different at the time

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as evidenced in the nineteen fifty-six film invasion of the Body Snatchers a [Advert for invasion of body snatchers appears]

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horror movie about aliens taking over human bodies and hiding in plain sight

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it was a documentary yeah okay but was the emphasis on homogenate II a result

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of the sexual revolution now the sexual revolution didn't come until a few years [People protesting on sexual revolution]

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later and was actually a response to the whole let's all be the same and totally

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boring thing going on at the time nor was it a reaction to women in the

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workforce because well most women weren't really joining the workforce but

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instead raising all those babies they'd made back home and the burgeoning [Lots of babies sitting on a couch]

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private sector actually aided the trend described in the excerpt it wasn't

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derailed by it see the invasion of the Body Snatchers movie was actually

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talking about communism as well as the paranoia it induced the hidden aliens [Nikita appears from room of items]

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represented hidden communist and the film's characters desperately trying to

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uncover these aliens represented the paranoid attempts to out all undercover

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commies and all because of the anxiety surrounding the Cold War and fears that

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it wasn't quite over people wanted to exhibit their love for capitalism love

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in America in order to let everyone know that they definitely weren't Body

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Snatchers or communist long story short you didn't want people thinking you were [Joseph McCarthy points to alien]

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an alien or a communist although during the Red Scare it was probably safer to

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be a blood sucking alien

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