"Ray, this 1987. Did you know that a girl can be whatever she wants to be?"
"I know -- my mom's a plumber."
--- Watts (and Ray),
Some Kind of Wonderful, 1987
[Note: Of course John Hughes movies are often problematic (this one less than most, I would say), but it's interesting that the role women have in negotiating around men (as shown in movies, at the very least) has not really progressed ... at all in the last 30 years.]
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