Molly Ringwald Is Now “Troubled” By ‘The Breakfast Club’ Because #MeToo

It seems that EVERYTHING is being put through the PC wringer lately.

Even seemingly innocent ‘Friends’ is now a HORRIFIC homophobic, misogynistic, raaaacist show.

So is it really any surprise that teen classic ‘The Breakfast Club’ is being shredded now, too?

Nope.

What IS surprising is who is doing said shredding.

Molly Ringwald, former teen sweetheart and star of ‘The Breakfast Club’ now says she’s “troubled” by the film.

According to Fox:

Actress Molly Ringwald says she revisited her hit film “The Breakfast Club” after her daughter asked to watch it but the 1980s film icon found parts of it “troubling” in the wake of the #MeToo era.

Ringwald, 50, wrote Friday in the The New Yorker that she watched the hit John Hughes-directed film with her 10-year-old daughter but was “worried she would find aspects of it troubling.”

“But I hadn’t anticipated that it would ultimately be most troubling for me,” Ringwald explained.

Yeah. Maybe because your 10-year-old isn’t a SJW who’s looking for reasons to be offended yet. Don’t worry, just give it time. She’ll be marching in a p*ssy hat in NO TIME!

The actress said the part of the film that bothered her the most was when her character, Claire Standish, was inappropriately touched by John Bender, played by Judd Nelson.

“At one point in the film, the bad-boy character, John Bender, ducks under the table where my character, Claire, is sitting, to hide from a teacher,” she wrote. “While there, he takes the opportunity to peek under Claire’s skirt and, though the audience doesn’t see, it is implied that he touches her inappropriately.”

Ringwald said she was 16 at the time so somebody else played her during that scene. She said her mother was even more embarrassed and upset by the scene and asked Hughes to cut it out of the film.

So basically there’s a rape scene in ‘The Breakfast Club’ AND YOU DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE IT. How DARE you?!

“What’s more, as I can see now, Bender sexually harasses Claire throughout the film,” Ringwald wrote. “When he’s not sexualizing her, he takes out his rage on her with vicious contempt, calling her ‘pathetic’, mocking her as ‘Queenie’. It’s rejection that inspires his vitriol.”

Despite Bender’s constant harassment, he ends up with Claire at the end of the film, Ringwald noted.

“I kept thinking about that scene,” Ringwald wrote. “I thought about it again this past fall, after a number of women came forward with sexual-assault accusations against the producer Harvey Weinstein, and the #MeToo movement gathered steam. If attitudes toward female subjugation are systemic, and I believe that they are, it stands to reason that the art we consume and sanction plays some part in reinforcing those same attitudes.”

Translation: ‘The Breakfast Club’ reinforces so-called “rape culture.”

The actress also starred in two other Hughes films, “Sixteen Candles” and “Pretty in Pink.” She explained she “felt the need” to re-examine how her depiction in the films “played in cultural life.

Ringwald praised Hughes for writing about what adolescents go through but said he had a “glaring blind spot” despite writing about sensitive topics.

Could it be that the film was written to be entertaining, funny, and relatable in a certain way, and not to lecture us about what we now feel to be “sensitive topics?”

Must EVERY film relate these messages? Is it really each filmmakers responsibility to do so?

I thought that’s what parents were for.

The actress said she was only “vaguely aware” when she was a teen how “inappropriate” Hughes’ writing was at the time. She recalled the time when she asked him to cut a scene in “The Breakfast Club” where a gym teacher was swimming naked in the school’s pool while being spied on by the school’s villainous vice principal Mr. Vernon.

She also recalled another scene she got cut from “Sixteen Candles” when her character, Samantha, was asked by her father where her underpants were. Ringwald said her mother “objected” to the scene.

“My mom objected. ‘Why would a father know what happened to his daughter’s underwear?’ she asked. John squirmed uncomfortably. He didn’t mean it that way, he said—it was just a joke, a punch line. ‘But it’s not funny,’ my mother said. ‘It’s creepy,’” she wrote. She said Hughes changed the scene.

Inappropriate for whom? Your 10-year-old? That’s on you for letting her watch it, isn’t it?

Anyway, she throws in a couple more SJW concerns, because why not?

Ringwald explained the other problems she had with Hughes films were the use of gay slurs and the absence of minority characters.

Got it. Check.

So anyway, the ridiculous jokes on ‘The Breakfast Club’ are now highly problematic indicators of rape culture.

We should probably burn each and every copy.