Shit, even as a Pearl Jam fan, this is dangerously accurate

[I]n stepped good old Eddie Vedder [in the early ’90s] with his puppy dog eyes and progressive stance on abortion, and taught a nation of hairy jockish apes how to project a modest amount of guitar-based masculinity while also faking enough idiotic brooding sensitivity to convince young women… [A]ll of a sudden there was a new way to act if the average American John Q. Nobody wanted any chance of copulating with a female. Grunge was off and running. It was a pretty sucky time.