Best of Unladylike: How to Free the 90s Bitch
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🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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In the run-up to brand-new episodes of Unladylike on March 30th, we’re hitting replay on four of our favorite episodes from the archive. Today, C&C revisit this episode from 2019.
The 1990s were supposed to be the "decade of women," but it became all about the bitches instead. Caroline and Cristen put on their velvet chokers for a feminist 90s-nostalgia trip with journalist Allison Yarrow (90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality), through the bitchification backlash and its leading unladies like Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt, and Tonya Harding.
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| 0:57.1 | Well, hey, Kristen. Hello, Caroline. And hello, UnLadies out there. Welcome to another |
| 1:06.9 | edition of Best of UnLadyLake. We're bringing ya'll brand new episodes starting on March 30th. |
| 1:14.1 | But in the meantime, we are dipping into the archives to revisit some of our and your favorite |
| 1:20.4 | episodes. favorite episodes that also feel especially timely right now, which is |
| 1:26.6 | why we're hitting replay on episode 45, |
| 1:30.5 | how to free the 90s bitch. |
| 1:32.8 | Because look, it's no secret that pop culture |
| 1:37.3 | has treated women terribly, |
| 1:40.4 | but there has been so much focus, especially lately, |
| 1:43.1 | on Britney Spears. |
| 1:45.3 | And this has gotten us thinking a lot about how |
| 1:49.1 | the 90s really set the stage for the kind of treatment |
| 1:54.1 | that Britney got in the late 90s and early 2000s, |
| 1:58.4 | as she approached her, quote unquote, infamous breakdown. |
| 2:03.6 | Yeah, I mean, it's a pattern we see again and again, |
| 2:07.2 | where we build women up, vilify them and tear them down. |
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