cmsellers wrote:I remember when I watched Revenge of the Nerds and one of the Nerds commits rape-by-deception and then his victim realizes he's a better lover. And I was like "holy fuck he just committed rape and it was played for laughs." And then Cracked did an article which talked about that scene like it wasn't fucking obvious that he committed rape, which clearly at the time it somehow wasn't.
Sixteen Candles came out in the same years as Revenge of the Nerds. In this beloved teen classic, Jake Ryan wants to get rid of his drunk girlfriend, Caroline, so he tells Ted to drive her home, telling him: "She's so blitzed, she
won't know the difference." And indeed it
seems that she doesn't. Caroline and Ted end up having sex, and in the next morning, she's happy about it.
I don't recall this part bothering me when I first watched the movie as a teen (not in 1984, I wasn't yet born then). Now I don't understand why it didn't, and I don't understand how could that be in a teen comedy. In 1984! That wasn't long ago - post second-wave feminism... and still, still...
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