90s pop

I can't remember what question I wanted to answer in class, but it made me this about why this music is perceived as bad. I think people are ashamed by listening to this type of music, like boy bands and popular music like this because it is stigmatized to be girl music. In our society, girl equals bad. What is the worst insult you can call a person? "Don't be a girl" or "you run like a girl." The worst thing you can call a boy is a girl. The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl including the most popular nicknames of a vagina.
When I was younger, I loved Hanson. I slowly evolved to like NSync And Backstreet Boys. I don't know if it was because I was supposed to like it because I was a girl or if I actually liked it. I was ridiculed for liking pokemon and boy stuff. After that, I traded my sister my game boy and all my games for an nsync CD. Not too much after people started telling me how much it sucked, I got into the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and bands like that probably when I was in 7th grade. I earned a lot of respect from people. Then a couple years later, I started to not care what people thought about my music choices. I listen to music for me, not to impress other people. Needless to say, I have Nsync and BSB as well as many others on my iPod to listen to occasionally no matter how much I get picked on for being "girly."