They are asking for it even if they only drink and have sex and party with their monogamous boyfriends. Whatever happens to that kind of girl as a result is funny. A good guy will help his nerdy bro to get a girl. Her consent is not necessary or desired.
In , we no longer enshrine these values in stories of unambiguous rape that are embedded into beloved romantic classics. We offer alternative narratives and are capable of having conversations about date rape. In the s, though, alternative narratives were few and far between. They were mostly offered only by feminism, and in the s, mainstream culture considered feminism shrill and unfashionable.
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Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. Curious about how the actress who played Caroline felt about the scene and the character now, Ringwald reached out to Haviland Morris, and the two met up for coffee. Initially, Morris did not seem to have the same grievances with the scene that Ringwald did — in fact, she felt as though Caroline was partially to blame for having drank too much.
To try to frame it differently for Morris, Ringwald described her own near-date rape situation, and finally wound up asking her hypothetically how she would feel about it if this happened to one of her children. That seemed to change her mind — at least a little, Ringwald wrote:. Absolutely, positively, it stays in your pants until invited by someone who is willing and consensually able to invite you to remove it.
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