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In The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Romany Malco tries to help Steve Carell have sex by telling him to focus on drunk women at the club. He even claims there's an evolutionary "code" in every man that programs him to "tackle drunk bitches," the way a lion's instincts tell it to tackle a gazelle. You know, guy talk.

And sure, a moral of both How I Met Your Mother and 40-Year-Old Virgin is that sex comes best when there's a wonderful (and consensual) connection between two people. But the fact that they treat these awful side characters as funny scamps instead of abandoning them in the middle of a lake somewhere is the problem. The easy take is that these jokes are just no longer kosher in the #MeToo era, but as with the racist old cartoons, it's weird that it was ever considered OK.

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Some of you grew up with "sure seemed squeaky clean at the time" comedies like Sixteen Candles. Watch it today and you'll see Caroline get so drunk that she ends up passing out at Jake's party, whereupon he says that he could "violate her ten different ways if I wanted to." Instead Jake lets the Geek drive her home. She wakes up the next morning saying she can't remember what happened, but she feels like she enjoyed it. You know, because by drinking, she chose to let herself be used, and the script made the character just come out and say she was fine with it.

Did you feel that? That weird feeling in the pit of your stomach? Yeah, so did I. But apparently, nobody did in 1984?

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I mean, it's not like we didn't always know it was wrong on some level. In 1978, Animal House showed the character Larry caught between an angel and a devil on his shoulders (literally) when a young woman he's in bed with passes out. The Devil relies on the same kind of logic actual date rapists use, like "You know she wants it" and "I mean, come on, when am I gonna get the chance with someone this hot again?" But Larry eventually decides against it.