Some Feminist At The NY Post Wants To “RETIRE” The 80’s Classic “Sixteen Candles”…

According to this piece in the NY Post, Sara Stewart thinks we should “retire” (that’s liberal-speak for “ban,” FYI) the movie Sixteen Candles.  I mean, her male colleague there at the Post, Lou Lumenick, thought it’d be a grand idea to go ahead and get rid of all traces of Gone With the Wind back in June.  Y’all remember all of that Confederate flag banning this past summer, don’t you?  Lou apparently needed something to write about and ban as a result of his liberal man rage, so his anger might as well be directed at a classic piece of American cinema, right?

Liberal logic right there.

And this month, in order to be a big girl journalist like her buddy Lou, I guess Sara had writer’s block so badly that she figured, “hey…I’ll just complain and moan about an iconic piece of American culture, tooooooo! Just like my buddy Louuuuuuu.”

Because liberals.  And their never-ending quest to just get RID of stuff while pretending to be the party of open-mindedness, tolerance, diversity, and intellectual superiority.  You know, even though we (still) have that pesky thing called the First Amendment.

Bless their hearts.

Anywho, Sara feels as though Sixteen Candles is racist and “celebrates” date rape.  Because of course that’s what she sees when she watches Sixteen Candles, one of the most awesome 80s movies ever made.

Sara sees racism and date rape.  Wow.  It must really suck to see life like that.

As for the racist part, she’s referring to Long Duk Dong.  LOVED him:

Well, Dong (or the guy who played him, Gedde Watanabe) was asked about whether or not “Long Duk Dong is an offensive stereotype of a young Asian man who just arrived in this country.”

He’s been asked that about a zillion times, I’m sure. Because liberal journalists.

His answer (at least this time)?

Yes, and all I’ll say about that is that because there weren’t enough Asians onscreen, comedy was kind of looked down upon. I was not in the film business. I was studying theater in New York. It was my first movie and I had no idea what I was stepping into. I know that periphery is loosening. But because there were so few Asian actors onscreen at that time, people were looking for Kurosawa in a comedy and Sixteen Candles wasn’t that kind of movie.

The same interviewer also asked:

“The Grandmother kicks Long Duk Dong because he’s been out partying and not being the nice studious Asian boy she thought she was getting.”

Exactly. Maybe indirectly, John thought he was breaking a stereotype.

Well lookie there.  Maybe Hughes was doing that.  Back in horrific 1984.  Could it be possible?

And you know what else Hughes was doing?  Making people laugh and generally have a good time, sans the P.C.-B.S.  Which, liberals forbid people do these days.   They simply can’t have that, so you can’t, either.  Capeesh?

Yep, Sixteen Candles was made in 1984.  I was in eighth grade, and it’s still one of my top five favorite 80s movies, for sure.  It was the eighties wrapped in a movie…from the that pink dress Molly Ringwald wore to the dance to the dreaminess that is Jake Ryan with his cuffed jeans and Porsche 944 .  I see complete and total AWESOME when I watch this movie, because it is awesome.  Totally.  And I have delicious memories of the 80s and all that it represented.  And I feel all warm and fuzzy because of that movie, because I was barely 13 when it came out, and that was a pivotal, wonderful age for me.  That movie was one of the first of many awesome John Hughes movies – the man symbolized the decade.

I LOVED that movie, in part because I don’t have a giant pole lodged up my a$$.   Lots of hardware in my back after my spinal fusion this past weekend, but nope – no poles up my backside.  And definitely no tolerance for ridiculous calls to “retire” movies like Sixteen Candles.

As for the date-rape-celebration cited by Sara, I don’t remember any parties being thrown at the notion of dudes raping girls in the actual movie.  I do remember Jake Ryan’s girlfriend being kind of an irresponsible, vacuous seahag who only cared about herself, frankly, and I recall her not really caring about WHO she had sex with.   I remember her being super drunk and I remember her friends were nowhere to be seen by the end of the night of the big party at Jake’s house.  Even as a 13-year old girl, I thought everything about her and her friends was vapid and I remember not wanting to be like her.  Ever.

And just so we’re all clear, back in 1984, me feeling that way wasn’t called victim blaming or slut shaming.  It was just called liking characters in a movie or not liking them.  It was called freaking common sense.

Sara cited this particular passage that she refers to as “Date Rape 101,” where “both of (the) male leads, supposedly the heroes, are actually terrible, terrible people.  Let’s review: Jake (Michael Schoeffling) — the supposed Perfect Guy — has a prom-queen girlfriend named Caroline (Haviland Morris), who gets so drunk at his party that she passes out. “I could violate her 10 different ways if I wanted to,” says Mr. Right. The Geek’s response: “What are you waiting for?”

That is what makes Sixteen Candles a movie that celebrates date rape.  And that conversation is what makes both the male leads ‘terrible, terrible people.’

Only Sara didn’t mention what an irresponsible seahag Caroline was at all.  In case anyone was wondering.

Next thing you know, liberals like Sara are going to be screaming that the movie Overboard was sexist.  I mean, Kurt Russell’s character basically KIDNAPS Goldie Hawn’s character and keeps her as a sex slave.  By liberal’s definition, shouldn’t THAT movie (also one of my top five 80s movies) be banned?  And what about Home Alone?  For crying out loud, that movie is literally the playbook for child neglect.  Hello.  BAN IT.  And I heard they’re doing a Weird Science remake.  Two hormonally-charged teenage boys are going to create a beautiful, naked woman with computer software so that they can use her for whatever desires they have?

Yeeeeeeah.  Sounds like feminists are going to be O.K. with that 80s premise, too.

Here’s a tip for you Sara.  And Lou.  And all other liberal “journalists” who want to “retire” media in any format because it offends them. If you don’t like a movie, DON’T WATCH IT.  It’s called America, and we’re free here.  If you don’t like it, I’ll be happy to start a crowd fund for y’all – here at COTR – to get a one way ticket to North Korea.  I heard they hate those movies, too.

And I bet that I can find some women my age who’ll donate. Because two words: Jake. Ryan.

Imma leave you with this.  You’re welcome.