re: #379 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah, but….

Nerds can be sympathetic heroes without being rapey. It wasn’t portrayed as “These poor guys were pushed to this!”, but rather “Snotty bitch deserved it!”

The more I think about it, the more parallels I see with the Incels of today - these women were nasty and hurtful to the protagonists, and end up being tricked into sex with them one way or another. That’s nonconsensual sex, no matter how you slice it. And then they always try to make it okay by having the woman say how good it was, or that she now likes the guy more.

Real Genius is a far, far better movie about nerds in college and that is probably because it had a woman directing it.

One of the few college age 80s comedies that still stands up.