I just finished Breaking Bad for the first time

I just finished Breaking Bad for the first time and I'm in the subreddits, obviously. I just found a post that articulates culture shift to more conservative and how that is impacting our reception to media. This post, the person says they've watched Breaking Bad four times through. They're on their fifth rewatch from when it first aired. So it finished airing in 2013. They say this time around, Skyler is hitting differently. I was always confused by how much men seemed to hate her because in earlier viewings, she felt caring and well-meaning to me. Now I find her incredibly emasculating to almost every man around her. So when I first read that I was like, oh, it's giving pipeline, but I'll keep going. I'll give this person the benefit of the doubt. But then we get to the end. Surprisingly, the character I feel the most sympathy for this time is Walt. Watching him be undermined and emasculated over and over by his environment, it's hard not to see how he becomes what he becomes. I found this post so fascinating because it's literally somebody realising in real time that over the past 13 years since Breaking Bad ended, their opinions of the women on the show have changed. The men and their decisions that they've made have changed. Their relationship to accountability and consequences and bad behaviour has changed. That is reflective of culture over these past 13 years since Breaking Bad ended. It wasn't a sudden ideological flip where all of a sudden tons of people just decided they wanted to be more conservative. It happened gradually. It's been a slow normalization of conservative talking points and messaging that have subtly shaped how so many people, including this person on Reddit, now perceive dynamics within gender, race, accountability culture, cancel culture, and ultimately within power structures. But don't worry, the commenters on Reddit are not letting this person get away with that post.