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U.S. History 1877-Present 12.8: The Sexual Revolution 37 Views
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Women's reproductive issues have been the subject of controversy for years. On the bright side, they're a great conversation starter if you want to end Thanksgiving early and violently.
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- 00:00
We speak student! Reproductive rights are still one of America's most hotly [a couple fighting each other over a debate]
- 00:07
debated topic the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 70s opened the
- 00:11
door for the discussion of issues of greater significance we're talking
- 00:15
bigger things than why Susie homemaker wasn't happy folding her laundry all day [susie homemaker unhappy at folding sheets]
- 00:20
every day anyway that one's easy laundry's the word so yeah the movement
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- 00:24
started with a collective realization that many women weren't happy in their
- 00:28
current roles but it morphed into a fight over how we define some of the [women looking unhappy next to a man dressed as a caveman]
- 00:32
most basic elements of our society along the way women realize that the two
- 00:36
things were more closely related than they had ever thought maybe women
- 00:40
weren't happy because they felt they lack the power needed to determine how [a pelican carrying a baby to the door of a woman]
- 00:43
and when to have or not have a family once they became mothers they felt like
- 00:48
their lives were mapped out for them in a way that mens weren't it was like a GPS voice [line mapping out a womans life]
- 00:52
always telling them what to do but instead of a GPS voice it was their kids
- 00:57
instead of an eerily calm robot voice it was a high-pitched voice and it [kid screaming in the back of the car to a mother]
- 01:01
really whiny what we're trying to get at is becoming a father
- 01:05
didn't change a man's employment status or has higher ability and it didn't put [man driving a car away from his wife and child]
- 01:10
a damper on his educational or personal pursuits in 1960s America women couldn't
- 01:15
say the same thing about motherhood further a counterculture slogan of make
- 01:20
love not war wasn't just a snappy catchphrase to promote peace it was [a hippy protester with a make love not war sign]
- 01:26
taken very very literally traditionally women served as the
- 01:29
guardians of virtue the cult of domesticity was not about condone [a woman burning at a stake with pitchforks]
- 01:33
premarital daliances into forbidden territory yeah we mean sex one of the
- 01:39
first big bombs to drop was the birth control pill well its impact is made
- 01:44
most clear by the fact that it still referred to as simply the pill [a large pink contraceptive pill]
- 01:48
conservatives freaked out when the pill hit the market without fear of pregnancy
- 01:53
what would stop single women from having premarital sex what would stop married
- 01:57
women from sleeping around what would stop America from turning into a [a mans head popping while people dance]
- 02:01
steaming cesspool of immorality oh the horror while feminist on the other hand
- 02:05
saw the pill is a mighty force of liberation now they had the power to
- 02:09
decide whether to have children or not motherhood was looking a lot more like a [a pelican carrying a cat in it's beak to a woman]
- 02:13
personal choice than a lifetime sentence but feminists didn't stop there they also
- 02:18
fought for the right to terminate unwanted pregnancies if they so chose
- 02:22
and in a famous Supreme Court case of Roe v Wade they won the battle for [supreme court members on stage]
- 02:27
abortion up until this time most states had serious restrictions on that
- 02:32
abortion thing but with a 7 to 2 ruling the Supreme Court decided that states didn't
- 02:37
have a right to do that anymore and fair warning this isn't your ordinary [boy prodding another boy at the dinner table]
- 02:41
dinner table conversation wouldn't recommend touching on this topic with
- 02:45
a 10-foot Pole tied to another ten-foot pole as a matter of fact the country has
- 02:49
been arguing about the morality of Roe v Wade ever since it happened so if you're [a couple arguing about the Roe v Wade debate]
- 02:53
looking to have a wild and crazy Thanksgiving well this one's a guaranteed
- 02:56
fire starter [turkey on fire at the dinner table]
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