Barrybgb

He certainly thought he was. Definitely more like Farmer Ted.

My Kind Of Crazy

-The film Sixteen Candles is a revered teen classic of the 1980s. However, several decades later the films stance on racism, classism, and date rape in particular are abominable and despicable depictions of those matters.

-"Sixteen Candles, Porky's, Revenge of the Nerds, The Breakfast Club, Animal House. Your favorite '70s and '80s movies helped to not only condone rape culture, but normalize it."-Diana Crandall (Writer for Forbes, Washington Post, and The Atlantic)

-Comedies from the 1980s presents serious subject matter and turns it into a montage that makes light of the situation. It presents the notion that if you're friendly with that person, then those rapes are just harmless jinks which is wrong on every level.

-In the film, Jake Ryan is presented as a teen idol but he’s also an accessory to date rape when he hands over a female character who is visibly drunk over to his friend played by Anthony Michael Hall. The film presents it as Caroline's fault and something of a joke.

-“She had to have a feeling about it, rather than a thought,” wrote Molly Ringwald in the New Yorker last year, in a long, empathetic reexamination of her work with John Hughes, “because thoughts are things we have when we are conscious, and she wasn’t.”
-"The dominant cultural narrative at the time of Brett Kavanaugh’s high school experience was the one offered by Sixteen Candles."




many more thoughts posted on ONTD

Melis

I just don't know what to say.

GardenSirens

oh yeah, you can look back at literally any comedy from the 70s and 80s and point out "rape culture". it's missing the point. I can point out thousands of horror movies that highlight murder culture. the difference between movie and reality is we're aware that we're not in control of a movie. we're buckled in for entertainment. Whether it's issues that make us uncomfortable, unfamiliar or just weird: it's art and it has a point. I'm entertained when Jason Voorhees kills ****ty teenage girls. Doesn't mean i would condone that action in real life, celebrate it or repeat it. I use the same with movies with "rape culture". Doesn't mean I celebrate it in real life or will go out and do the same.

People need to separate fiction from reality. They've always struggled with this, though :cough Mortal Kombat cough:

Melis

Watching this on Sundance now.

Floppy discs are expensive. LOL You can tell the movie's age.

Barrybgb

Lol. I am not even sure how expensive they were.

Melis

Now kids today wouldn't know what they are.

GardenSirens

sad face

Melis

They do need to separate fact and fiction. I think people just want to complain about it nowadays instead of doing that.

GardenSirens

well, like always, people are looking for something/someone to blame for them being unable to properly raise their kids. I know all of us regular posters here love this movie and none of us have ever raped or inappropriately touched someone. Yet we worship these movies.

Melis

We are all leveled headed people here.

GardenSirens

I didn't say that. I just said we're not rapists, lol.

Barry is a serial killer.
I rob graves and collect toe nails.
Melis made a religion after Heathers.

Melis

Oh, my mistake. hehe

Melis

Barrybgb

That is a great shirt.

I am glad the Baker house wasn't torn down. It was empty when they took it over for filming.