I can tell 100% that it's true Actually, Michael J Fox helped me with my personal life I am neither a short nor very tall girl nevertheless it was always quite hard for me to find the guy who would be taller than me. And I always wanted that exactly guy I never ever payed attention to those who were same height or, God forbid, shorter. This summer I fell in love with MJF(I knew this actor since childhood but this time I just looked much closer at him) and I found out that I can be attracted to short guys. And several month later in autumn I met HIM. Adorable, handsome guy, who always smiles, with amazing body and...shorter than me. I fell in love with him as I did with MJF I don't give a damn about his height. This is a main person in my life and now I am his fiancee. P.S. with him I had the best sex in my life Short guys do make the best lovers!
If you didn't, you were considered strange, lol. My best friend and I watched Family Ties religiously here in Finland. Then went and saw Back To The Future because of him, on December 27 1985 to be precise, hahah ( I wrote about it in my diary ). Yeah, I love going back and watch clips of the young, beautiful Michael J. Fox, I become a teenager all over again =)
Classic show. Great scene. Amy Steel was an underrated actress. I remember her from Friday The 13th Part 2. She went after Jason Voorhees with a chainsaw!!! A total bad ass!
super uncomfortable episode. even the first time i watched it i was put off; plus they reference it in a different episode where mallory talks about her relationship with her boyfriend... just gives me a bad feeling.
@puppylove3781 he can deny having sex with her. I know in this world there is a narrative that men are always ready to have sex but that's just not true. Especially not when he's a minor, and the person he's doing it with is an adult.
@@puppylove3781I have a feeling this may be a person whose first language isn't English and they're using the word "deny" to mean "say no," or in other words turn her down.
@@emmabennett7699 No worries. I think it was just confusing to some of us because while historically "deny" could be used to mean "say no," fewer people in contemporary times use it that way, compared to using it to mean saying "that didn't happen" or "that isn't true." In a lot of other languages both meanings are common, so that's what led to my hypothesis.
She is right, Alex does seem fully developed. Alex is very mature for his age. He seems to grow up fast and most of the time wears shirt and tie everywhere he goes even to school like he's already a businessman.
Ahh poor Alex. Poor, sweet, innocent, adorable Alex. Why was he used like that? How cheap. Why did he have to do it? 😩 but like how Steven is so calm about it…. Sheesh
I haven't watched the series yet so I don't have context, and I completely understand his fear, first sex is terrifying for anyone, but getting to know Alex I find it interesting that there's such a long debate around it between them before it actually happens. Alex seems incredibly introverted and he does make up for it in passion, but it seems that he's learning a very important lesson - that you can't debate your way out of emotions. You have to give in to your deepest feelings if you want to connect to someone else. Michal is electric in this moment and putting all jokes aside, it's incredibly moving to watch. Hats off.
I can totally relate to Alex! I grew up watching this show in the eightys and was in the same boat as he was, with this much older attractive blonde woman! I had met her at the bar that I worked at and she invited me to go to another bar, when I got off work. It was Halloween night and I overheard her talking to her friend...telling her that I was going back to her place that night. I too hadn't "delivered groceries" up to that time! But the next morning she told me that I had done a pretty good job!
As of last week, I considered this show good but not great. Still I considered this show the 2nd best show from the 80s (Cheers 1st, Simpsons 89 doesn't really count). Then I rewatched episodes of Family Ties this week and I have to recalibrate my opinion. It really is great!
Well, age difference with age of consent laws is typically 3-4 years. So, it's not out of the question for a 20-21-year-old college girl to go after a 17-year-old high school student. Although, this is the 80s and it was only the 4th episode of the series. So, my guess is that they were still trying to get viewers.
She acted like she was so mature yet was completely unconcerned about what being Alex' first would mean to him (she's with another guy the next time he comes over). I loved that he cared and was hurt that it meant nothing to her, guys are almost never portrayed as actually human that way.
When they did television shows like this, I think it was to point out how things like this could occur. I don't think they were glorifying her behavior. Because she was a woman.
I worked with a woman who was around 35 yrs old and very sexually oriented. Our manager's high school aged son and his friends worked with us during the summers. One guy was very well built. She really liked his looks and they flirted. HE WAS 16! She was warned by Human Resources about statutory rape. What did she do? Waited until he was 17 and jumped him. She liked "initiating" young guys and "teaching" them. If she was a man initiating young girls it would've been a whole different story.
I suppose that college girls do, sometimes, seduce younger men; but those men would have to look more their age. College girls aren't attracted to men who look like they're just out of junior high school; it's just not realistic. But this was a standout episode of the series, regardless.
I don't know why you think it's sweet, either. It's portrayed as in it's his lucky day, but really any time there's that big a difference and the younger person is a minor, it's predatory.
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I love it when women say that how they want guys like Alex. Who are mature, intelligent and dare I say- sensitive. Making us believe nice guys have it made til we get that inevitable rude awakening.
That’s cause you’re running after the wrong kind of woman. Based on what you’ve said, you’re trying to make the women YOU particularly want, want you. And it often doesn’t happen that way. The best women can be the ones you aren’t sexually attracted to at first. Yeah, you can have SOME kind of “relationship” with those kind of women, but they may not be after the same things you are. Their goals in life may be very singular and may not include you. Good, stable, respectful, treats you good, can give you the emotional support and love you deserve. Can be just as much of a force as you are. Can run the home and have a successful career in her own right. But YOU must be secure enough in your manhood to let that happen. Men aren’t the only ones that need human fulfillment. Women aren’t just meant to be housewives. YOU need to make plain what YOU need when dating. If YOU require a woman that wants to be a housewife, be forthcoming about that. Don’t be thinking you can mold the woman YOU want into that. “He wasn’t that way when we were dating, he was so supportive of me and my dreams and career, now all he wants is a 1950’s housewife.” Not being forthcoming straight away in the relationship causes problems later. You don’t want us women trying to change you, don’t try and change us. And don’t hold back who you are, trying to be what you think will make us want to choose you as husband material, that’s horrible and will make both sides grow resentful over time, as well. Not yelling at you personally, I don’t even know you. Just going off what you said in your comment.🤷🏻♀️your comment was three years ago and your situation may have changed since then. Idk.
@@destinywhite2063 You're yelling at him personally. Get over yourself, and stop chasing women who either have tattoos, chase black guys, or purple-green hair. Scott Adams was RIGHT, you need to stay away from them, and that goes double whether you're deciding choosing against liberals or blacks, because for what it's worth, they BOTH will harm you just in different ways. Granted, one more than the other, but still. If you want a GOOD girl like in the 80's, they no longer exist. You'll have to go out of the country to find what you're looking for. All of these nitwits "giving advice" are bullshit, because they are all the cause of the problem. The solution is to leave the country, find a wife or girlfriend in asia, and never look back. The echo chamber from women will dry up and they will simply die out, and that will be that.
Nice guys rule!!!! I married a nice guy!!! Many of my friends didn’t like nice guys because they loved drama, they would say “i don’t want someone who kisses my you know what” and i was like a nice guy isn’t tantamount to a “pushover “ it just means he’s a guy with values!!!!! And my dream came true!!!
Oh, where oh WHERE were the Amy Steel's during MY college years?? I was, for all intents and purposes, Alex Keaton--same stature, same baby face…..but it didn't work out for me so well; I found that college women, understandably, went more for men who looked old enough to be their contemporaries, while our(Michael J. Fox's and my) types were merely "cute," but not the GOOD "cute," if you know what I mean!! And I'm not criticizing the college women I knew, either; had I been they, I'd have probably had the same attitude. Lucky Alex; I was so jealous of him even though I knew it was just a TV program. I've watched this video about a billion times. And the acting and directing of this scene were excellent and tasteful.
@MalnourishedGoat Of course I am. (I've got a new computer, so that old name of mine is kaput.) But I'm just saying that in my experience, those guys with the just-out-of-junior-high look such as Fox's are not exactly babe magnets. But true, there are exceptions, I suppose.
