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Long before millennials were bemoaned as the most self-absorbed, ungrateful generation in existence.

Young people in the 1970s were labeled as the Me generation by their elders. The phrase was coined by a couple riders

commenting on what they saw as a rise of narcissism in young people.

After the radical and revolutionary 1960s,

the 1970s brought forward self-realization

and self-fulfillment.

New age spirituality, health and exercise fads,

self-help programs and

it was a new era of

it was a new era of liberation for women

so much so that in 1970 of liberation for women.

So much so that in 1975, Time awarded its Man of the Year

to American women, saying, quote,

they have arrived like a new immigrant wave in male America.

They may be cops, judges, military officers, telephone linemen, cab drivers, pipefitters, editors, business executives, or mothers and housewives, but not quite the same subordinate creatures they were before.

Across the broad range of American life, from suburban tract houses to state legislatures,

from church pulpits to army barracks, women's lives are profoundly changing, and with

them the traditional relationships between the sexes, end quote.

While the 1970s were a time of independence and fulfillment,

they were also a time when many, especially women,

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