>Go on a binge of watching 90's cartoons
>Every single series includes episodes focussed upon women gaining weight, transforming into a werewolf or bipedal reptile woman, growing a cat tail and ears and behaving like a pet, being petrified or being mind controlled and suddenly having a dominatrix outfit out of nowhere.

How did they fool everybody? like no shit kids would have had this fly over their heads but its so common and so blatant -often from the same small number of writers getting most of the work it seems- that people had to know what was going on here.