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How different it was to exist as a girl in the 90s in the UK. I know that decade was better than many that had gone before it, but I look back at media from my childhood and it seems crazy to me now how normalised so much misogyny was. And although it didn't affect me directly, the same for anyone on the LQBTQ+ spectrum. Watching episodes of Friends makes me cringe.
Yeah, it's very easy for me to look back on the 90s with rose-tinted glasses (everything was so much simpler then! Great music! Hope!), but that's overlooking the things that really weren't great. Page 3 of the Sun, Chris Moyles on Radio 1 counting down to Charlotte Church's 16 birthday (aka the age of consent 🤮) rape in marriage not really being considered a thing. All symptoms of bigger underlying problems.