Molly Ringwald says she can't watch 'The Breakfast Club' with her 13-year-old daughter because of its sexist tropes: 'She's very liberal'

• Molly Ringwald said her 13-year-old daughter won't watch her 1985 classic "The Breakfast Club."

• "She's very liberal. I mean, I'm very liberal, but she's another level," she told The Guardian.

• "There were certain things that were accepted that just wouldn't be accepted now."

Molly Ringwald has said that her 13-year-old daughter has no interest in watching one of the movies that made her mom a star, "The Breakfast Club."

Ringwald — who starred in the detention-set drama with Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, and Ally Sheedy — told The Guardian that her youngest daughter won't watch the coming-of-age drama seemingly because of its outdated, sexist tropes.

"She's very liberal. I mean, I'm very liberal, but she's another level. Which she should be, and I'm glad," she said of her daughter Adele, 13.

In the film, Ringwald's character Claire is repeatedly harassed, berated, and even sexually violated by Bender (Nelson), who is presented as her love interest. At the end of the film, they are shown getting together and sharing a kiss in the school's parking lot.

Elsewhere, the film also features several gay slurs and stereotypes.

The 55-year-old actor, who also shares daughter Mathilda, 19, and son Roman, 13 with her husband Panio Gianopoulos, noted that the film, which earned acclaim from critics upon its release in 1985, was the product of an entirely "different time."

"There were certain things that were accepted that just wouldn't be accepted now," she added.

Ringwald then pointed to a troubling scene in one of her other collaborations with filmmaker John Hughes, "Sixteen Candles."

At one point in the movie, Jake (Michael Schoeffling) trades his drunk girlfriend Caroline (Haviland Morris) to have sex with Farmer Ted (Anthony Michael Hall), in exchange for a pair of underwear he has stolen from another female character.

"The whole storyline with Caroline, that didn't have anything to do with my character," she said. "So I really couldn't change that. I didn't have that kind of power."

As for "The Breakfast Club," Ringwald disclosed in a 2018 essay for The New Yorker that there were actually far more overtly sexist scenes in the movie's first draft that she managed to convince Hughes to cut.

"There was a scene in which an attractive female gym teacher swam naked in the school's swimming pool as Mr. Vernon, the teacher who is in charge of the students' detention, spied on her," she wrote.

"The scene wasn't in the first draft I read, and I lobbied John to cut it. He did, and although I'm sure the actress who had been cast in the part still blames me for foiling her break, I think the film is better for it."

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