Word: preteen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussions with Carter, Giles made a shrewd guess and beat the rest of the press by a full day on the convention's one big newsbreak. IT'S OFFICIAL: MONDALE/CAR-TER! crowed the front-page headline. Explained Giles, 12, a reporter for Children's Express, the fledgling preteen monthly that published a special convention issue last week: "My main advantage is that adults don't think children listen or understand...
...jargon spawned by the liberationists has already moved into the vernacular. Expressions such as "male chauvinist pig (MCP)," "bra burner," "consciousness raising," "sex role," "role model," "sexist" and "sexism," "sister," "sisterhood" and "machismo" are now in common use, even among precocious preteen-agers. No cocktail party can be considered top drawer without at least one reference to the "myth of the vaginal orgasm" or to some "phallustine" (an MCP philistine). But some women want more. The language, they say, reflects centuries of male dominance, and is loaded with male chauvinist piggisms that must be thoroughly rooted...