YMMV / John Hughes

• Fair for Its Day: Notwithstanding some Values Dissonance, his works are generally progressive in their exploration of the emotional lives of teens, significantly teen victims of abusive or neglectful homes in The Breakfast Club, and showing the need for men to be more emotionally open as in The Great Outdoors and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
• Values Dissonance:
  • The casual use of the word "fag" as an insult by main characters in several films can rub a lot of modern viewers the wrong way.
  • A lot of his films feature at least one character making remarks towards girls that would nowadays be considered straight-up sexual harassment. Not helping is that it's usually from a guy who the audience is supposed to cheer for when he gets the girl.
  • Molly Ringwald herself discussed this in an article for the New Yorker. Apparently she finds it very uncomfortable to watch the movies she did with Hughes nowadays. She also dug around and found articles Hughes had written for National Lampoon in the 1970s with titles like "Sexual Harassment and How to Do It" (and the men doing the harassing were not the ones being lampooned).
  • In Sixteen Candles, the Love Interest casually hands his passed out girlfriend over to someone else, presumably to rape. The entire premise of Weird Science is the creation of a sex slave. Bender doesn't just spend the entirety of The Breakfast Club harassing Claire, he even assaults her while hiding under the table she's sitting at. Even Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off admits to ogling Sloane changing out of her clothes by the Jacuzzi, and she's somehow okay with it. It's difficult to find a John Hughes film where one of the good guys doesn't do something to a woman she doesn't want.^note It's Home Alone. That's the one.