We All Know Women Do Not Make Wise Decisions.

In the original version Andi chose Duckie at the but due to the test audience's reaction it was changed to her choosing Blaine - the movies plot makes more sense with her choosing to be with Duckie. Another Hughes film 'Some kind of wonderful' is a sort of gender-flipped version of 'Pretty in pink', the main Character chooses the best friend character over the popular rich girl.

We All Know Women Do Not Make Wise Decisions.

So women as a whole do not make wise decisions because they have all be conditioned to marry up???? This is a very prejudicial and ignorant statement. You really shouldn't begin sentences with "all" when you are referring to a group of people divided by sex or race. First all women don't anything. Women are different depending on the specific woman. There are women who are like this and there are women who aren't.


Also I would argue that Andie didn't choose Duckie based on his monetary status, she simply wasn't attracted to him. Andie was really mature for her age. Even in high school, she was focused on college and career minded. Duckie was at a complete different place than her. He didn't take school seriously and I would also add that when Andie mentions her hopes or aspirations he really doesn't take much interest in them. He likes a fantasy Andie without really taking into account who she is and what she wants for her life.

Well, I'm only one woman, but I wasn't conditioned to marry up. I was conditioned to be able to support myself and to marry a man who treated me well.

FWIW, I was rooting for Duckie - until I saw the movie again and remembered what a clingy, needy guy he was. To a woman, that's a big turn-off, regardless of what the guy's socioeconomic class is. But I didn't see her relationship with Blane going the distance either.

Anyway, this is all a moot point, because we all know that at the end of the day, guys run after the "hot" bitchy girls who treat everyone like crap, like Bennie ;-) Blane and Steff would never be into Andie IRL...unless there was a bet involved, a la "She's All That."

This is generalizing women and generalizing rich people. Andie is smart and strong-willed, and if at any point she decided Blane wasn't the person for her, I have no doubt she would dump him. Blane is rich and gives into peer pressure, but he tries to redeem himself in the end and doesn't display any behavior that would make me think one day he is going to cheat on or abuse Andie. He is generally kind to people, seems to try and see the best in people, and that's why he notices Andie. She was not attracted to Duckie, end of story. And honestly from the way she kind of treats him as an annoyance the whole movie and then doesn't seek him out after he disappears thanks to his jealousy over her date, I don't think his "understanding" of her and honestly, his obsession with her, are all that vital to her. She loves him as a friend, but she is very independent and would ultimately be fine with neither guy in her life if she chose to move on from both of them.

The sexist title of this post show that YOU do not make wise decisions.


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Love means never having to say you're ugly. - The Abominable Dr. Phibes

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I never understood why she was cast in films opposite male romantic leads she had little chemistry with, but alongside other actors & actresses she worked very well with like Anthony-Michael Hall.

The most egregious example was PRETTY IN PINK. There she had negative chemistry with her romantic interest Andrew McCarthy and seemed barely to notice her deuteragonist Jon Cryer playing in the same scenes with her, but lit up next to antagonist James Spader with whom she only shared a handful of short scenes. Even in retrospect it is easy to believe their characters despised one another and fixated on their class/status/physical differences via a strange disturbing attraction, and yet Hughes chose to ignore this...for PROM! Aside from the marvellous Annie Potts, PIP was really just 80 minutes of wasted opportunities.

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reply 76 2 hours ago

But men, on the other hand, always make wise decisions, right?

I know you're long gone, this posted on IMDb, but really, male or female, the reality is humans make foolish decisions at times. It has nothing to do with whether one is female or male. Heterosexual men often make foolish decisions because they're blindsided by a woman's physical appearance, regardless of their problems.

Pot, may I introduce you to kettle?