From 'Revenge of the Nerds' to 'License to Drive.'
The year is 1986, and I am around eight years old. I am sitting in my living room in Brooklyn watching Revenge of the Nerds with rapt attention. My mother is not around; perhaps she is passed out or out of the apartment altogether as she often was due to her retreat into the depths of her heroin addiction. I am alone watching this movie on a mainstream station during prime-time hours on a weeknight.
I didn’t have the words all those years ago to define what I saw on television, which, again, gave me a distinct impression of sleaziness even though I was only a child. But I do now: It was rape. There is also the Scott Baio flick Zapped!, the entire premise of which is a teen who develops telekinesis and uses it solely to strip women against their will. The cover of that VHS is Scott Baio and Willie Aames , watching from a window as a woman is floated up and her skirt is raised high to reveal her ass. We do not see her face, only the bottom half of her.
Many men who, like Brett Kavanaugh, came of age in the 1980s are now climbing up or fully claiming the upper levels of power in this country. In many ways, the behavior alluded to in Kavanaugh’s high school yearbook and calendar both exposes and embodies the lack of ethics and generally warped sexual standards that defined the era that marked his adolescence and young adulthood.
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