Molly Ringwald on being eternally iconic
UnStyled
The Subversion of the National Lampoon Humor
I was really upset and appalled. There was a specific subversion to a lot of it that just seemed very misogynistic and very sexist. It wasn't just women who were the butt of jokes. They were all different kinds of races or any kind of gender complexity, you know, gay. The people that were powerful at the time, basically white male, that that was... Would be comics. And they were the ones that had the power. I mean, frankly, I don't feel like it's changing as much as I would like it to. When I see things that Hollywood is turning out, I feel like the needle should have moved a little further than it has.
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