Why the 90s felt toxic for women

Or how I've only recently realised how anti-women everything was

I’m about to record a podcast, something I don’t do often these days, and one of the co-hosts is talking about body shaming. He’s doing this whilst also body shaming another female celebrity but nevermind. He doesn’t realise that always talking about women in relation to the way they look versus what they do is reductive. He’s relatively young, and I tell him about how body shaming was super common in the 90s and into the 00s. How women’s magazines used to have photos of women, a zoom lens on their butt and the caption - FAT CELLULITE SHAME underneath. I remember queuing in supermarkets to buy my Bean Feast (do you remember that stuff- weird dried meat substitute that you added water to?) and there would be some poor TV celebrity having their body shape torn apart.