I kind of wish he would stop flirting with girls out of his league and be a professional. He lies to a school girl about her abilities to apparently get in her pants.
He then nearly causes the new but fleagering Business to cop a sexual harassment lawsuit with its first client by asking for a kiss when being evicted from her premises.
sexual harassment is not taken as seriously in the 1980's--this would not happen until years later. Peter is culturally in the clear.
But yeah, his actions as a professor are 'ick'. Did not understand it as a little kid. Now having been in college, I do and don't find this funny @ all. Egon and/or Ray needed to have said something. Disappointing that they at least did not.
Yeah, apparently harassing women was hilarious in the 80s. They could have written him as a love struck man-child without being so damn creepy.
share It wasn't till anita hill that sexual harrasment started being enforced by law and a little bit later before cultural enforcement. And even then it was only considered in the context of a boss fireing a woman for refusing to sleep with him. It wasn't to the point were mere asking a woman out can lead to a sexual harassment charge which I think were not to far from these days.
Back in the 80s everything was pepe le pew though.
Yes, I have studied a little about the sexual "revolution". The mindset was "I'm free to express my sexuality" and that meant touching up women, sexual comments, wolf whistling etc. "Liberation" to be a perve. I remember a little of this still existing in the 80s, but it was more of a 70s thing.
Strangely if you go to Argentina, it is still common place for a man to leer at a woman, even stopping in the street, standing still and watching them as they pass, maybe with a comment as you watch them continue to walk on by. It's kind of gross, especially if its some old geezer looking at a teenager.
Yea the brazil area is strange. The women come on to men in brazil.
Peter carries drugs around with him.....also creepy. How many non-homeless men carry sedatives around with them to 'put' women out???
shareDuh! Much of the humor was based on three extremely flawed personalities eventually rising above their faults and saving the world. And hoo boy does Venkman have faults, he endangers his livelihood and those of his pals by hitting on the business's first client! (And BTW his treatment of Dana doesn't fit the legal definition of sexual harassment, he's a creeper all right but she's the one who is in a position to fire HIM.)
But yeah, he's a jerk. It's pretty improbable that Dana falls for him in the end, saving her life really isn't enough to overcome that level of jerkitude.
And what was wrong with Ray or Egan. And why does everyone forget about Winston?
shareYou ask what's wrong with a man who tells a flirting woman that he collects spores, molds, and fungi? He's more than a bit odd, perhaps not entirely neurotypical. Ray is dorky and geeky, although not enough to keep Murray from stealing the film from him.
Winston is written without any flaws, or any personality. He's the very definition of an underdeveloped character.
Egon isn't a creep....actually wish they kept him and Janine together. Yes he probably is Neurodiverse. But there is nothing 'bad' about this in particular. We know much more about autism etc now I myself thought he was attractive.
Winston is very good looking too. And considering how fast he did understand everything, did not have to have it explained again and again---VERY intelligent. I'd want to go out on date with either one of them.
Worse about Ray is he smokes in Elevator--which is safety hazard. Knocks a couple of points off right there. Sorry not cool.
Egon's not drugging women !!
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