As someone who grew up watching the media of that era, I have trouble agreeing with that characterization. Most of what I saw wasn’t encouraging Stepford/Disne

As someone who grew up watching the media of that era, I have trouble agreeing with that characterization. Most of what I saw wasn’t encouraging Stepford/Disney saccharine positivity nearly as much as it was encouraging basic decency and politeness in day to day interactions, including those with groups that traditionally hadn’t enjoyed that. It didn’t even discourage arguments but rather emphasized being productive with them — in other words, argue to find solutions, not to stoke each others’ emotional bonfires. If anything based on the steep decline in basic decency in the past couple of decades, I think it could be argued that the messaging of the 90s was unfortunately a failure.