Back to the 1980s sexism

[ivy03]

I have been rewatching the Back to the Future trilogy with the boy. It's 2015, so it's a must, and he had only ever seen the first one, and that only once. (I don't know how, if you were alive in the eighties, you could've avoided them

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[trinityvixen]

All cogent arguments, alas. The first film did have something in flipping the script about assumptions made about people in the past--eg. Lorraine not being a "good" girl, George being a peeping Tom--but yeah, not much agency.

We need to talk about "the boy"!

[jethrien]

I haven't seen these since I was a kid. Now I'm not sure I want to see them again...