It was a different time

I flipped on the tv this morning, and caught the last half of "Back to the Future" on one of the movie channels. I know, Hurrah! But now that I have a more educated feminist legal perspective, the ending was kind of unsettling to me. You know how Marty gets back home, and it's all different and everyone is all classy and smarter, and George McFly and Biff have sort of switched roles? Well, George has this line, "Oh, Biff, what a character. Always trying to get away with something." And I was like, "um, he tried to rape your wife in high school." Yeah, what a character. Ha ha ha.
On the plus side, the channel I was watching on lets the characters say "asshole." The copy of the movie I had growing up was taped off a channel that wouldn't allow such filthy language.

Edit: Turns out this is a marathon, and now part two is on. They are in the year 2015, 7 years from now. I must say that, as a society, we have a lot of work to do if want to live up to Robert Zemeckis' vision of the future.