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The Audio Long Read

From the archive: ‘We believed we could remake ourselves any way we liked’: how the 1990s shaped #MeToo

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2018: While promising liberation and endless possibility, the culture of the decade drove us relentlessly in pursuit of perfection. By Eve Fairbanks. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:10.4

Hi, my name is Hannah Frankson.

0:12.1

I'm a peloton instructor and I teach classes on the peloton bite and the peloton tread.

0:16.7

Nothing motivates me more than the thought of enjoying life to the fullest.

0:21.4

Life is always for so many different challenges and chapters.

0:25.2

For me, movement and exercise has been there throughout every stage of my life.

0:28.9

Just living life to the max is what motivates me.

0:32.0

The Guardian loves has partnered with peloton to help you find motivation that moves you.

0:36.1

To find out more, visit thegardian.com forward slash motivation with peloton.

0:40.4

This message was paid for by peloton.

0:47.6

Hi, I'm Eve Fairbanks and I wrote the story we're about to hear.

0:52.0

I started thinking about this story right in the wake of the beginning of the Me Too movement

0:59.0

a few years ago and a friend of mine had sent me some very kind of distressed text messages

1:07.7

and she was wondering why she had known about some of the stories that came out in a kind of

1:16.8

second-hand way but she was in an industry where she had known rumors and substantiated sort of

1:23.6

rumors about some of the abuses that came out right at the beginning of that movement

1:28.8

and she had not spoken up and she told me that she you know she felt like a feminist.

1:34.0

She considers herself one and she didn't understand

1:38.1

herself in that moment.

1:39.4

She didn't understand why she hadn't felt brave or earlier or why she had behaved in a certain way

1:44.8

because she'd known about this.

1:47.0

Some of these things for 15 years and she felt a lot of guilt because she wasn't a junior

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