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I'm really surprised that we're celebrating some of these movies. I'm not familiar with each movie, but Sixteen Candles portrays some of the most obvious, egregious racism against Asian people since Breakfast at Tiffany's, and it casually portrays and then totally dismisses a case of date rape as being a part of teen culture. Not to mention that weird scene in which the main character is felt up by her groping aunt and uncle and she apparently doesn't feel safe about standing up for herself and just saying "no" to their bizarre and unwanted attention. (C'mon folks, didn't anybody else find that movie problematic?)

Indeed, there are several problematic aspects of Sixteen Candles, as well as some of Hughes' other movies. Amy Benfer discusses these, as well as some potentially redeeming qualities of his films at Salon's Broadsheet.

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Nice job, Ms. Wallace. I was sad to hear about John Hughes; Ferris Beuller in particular is close to my heart. (My parents saw it right before I was born, and I joke that this explains a lot about me.)
To the poster(s) above, I found Weird Science awfully offensive gender politics-wise, but I haven't seen Sixteen Candles since childhood and don't recall the date rape allusion. Would you mind recapping for me?