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collapsedsquid:

collapsedsquid:

Been bingin’ some 90s movies/shows like everyone else and every once in a while you go “Oh hey I remember that 90’s misogyny, oh how nostalgic, that’s not how misogyny is done anymore.”

Trying to pick out what makes this misogyny unique and it’s hard, part of it and arguably all of it is “Still the same generally, you can’t really say this shit on mass-market entertainment anymore” and the only shift is in format to dashcam videos and twitter posts but it feels like there’s more to it. Got some theories I’ve been throwing around

Women as “bloodsuckers” is a big part of this and one thing comes to mind is that this is about the upwardly mobile white man who believes he is having his attempt to change class being thwarted by the ex-wife, and this story is less relatable now due to changes in the economy.

There’s another story about sexual liberation and the decline of sex that’s harder to describe, about how feminism + free love means that women would be more available for labor + sex, and men could feel cheated that this didn’t happen the way they wanted. Now men can still be angry about this but are not surprised by it in the same way.

(points to @kontextmaschine’s posts about “PCU” on Comedy Central, and the “Something For Everyone” concept of social progress in the 1990s)

The posts in question:

“I wonder exactly which day it was that the amount of time Comedy Central had spent broadcasting The Daily Show finally caught up to the amount of time they had spent broadcasting PCU”

“Something for Everyone”