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WanderingEng · 2425 days ago · link · · parent · post: Molly Ringwald: What About the Breakfast Club?: Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.
I think her generation will look at that sort of thing the way I look at Looney Tunes. The cartoons can have horrible charictures of black people, but I know that was a representation of the times, wrong then and wrong now, and not a reason to dismiss the art entirely. Sexism is going the same way, happily.My kid will watch Breakfast Club some day and she's gonna wonder at the unenlightened era in which it was created.
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I guess I meant I don't see sexism in the eighties as ever being viewed as badly as racial caricatures or characters like Dong. Sorry. I'm in a coffee shop so I can't watch the video. So I really can't grok your point at all. You're agreeing? Still thought I'd clarify. I make vague statements sometimes