Appearance wise, everything went to shit in the 90s, with the rise of grunge. That’s when popular music became more joyless and less fun. People were less concerned about being loud and looking good, and more concerned with being miserable fucks. In 1980s music videos there’s hot women on yachts in their underwear, in the 1990s it’s guys being more serious, with no women in sight. Compare these videos (admittedly, Creep is a great song):
Duran Duran - Girls on Film (80s)
Radiohead - Creep (90s)
Somebody also figured out that women held the keys to spending in many households, so TV began to be more for women and less for men. Nowadays on mainstream US TV channels, there’s almost nothing to watch for heterosexual males. It’s all reality shows, cooking, dramas and dancing shows that no red blooded male would be seen dead watching.
Also, the lack of shame went away…it was embarrassing to be a slut or fat in the 1980s – nobody cares anymore. The genie has been let out of the bottle.
There’s so much faggotry in US culture now, that there were 2 straight guys in my office debating Pitch Perfect 1 vs. Pitch Perfect 2. Those films are for women!
Duran Duran - Girls on Film (80s)
Radiohead - Creep (90s)
Somebody also figured out that women held the keys to spending in many households, so TV began to be more for women and less for men. Nowadays on mainstream US TV channels, there’s almost nothing to watch for heterosexual males. It’s all reality shows, cooking, dramas and dancing shows that no red blooded male would be seen dead watching.
Also, the lack of shame went away…it was embarrassing to be a slut or fat in the 1980s – nobody cares anymore. The genie has been let out of the bottle.
There’s so much faggotry in US culture now, that there were 2 straight guys in my office debating Pitch Perfect 1 vs. Pitch Perfect 2. Those films are for women!