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There are old reviews calling that scene out when the movie was new.
edit: I'm looking for the review, but there's so many modern reviews, that finding a scanned new paper article from 1984 is difficult.
Another example of people knowing Revenge of the Nerds ain't right was Real Genius. The creative crew was hired by the studio to make their own Revenge of the Nerds, but they hated that movie and made a fixed version.
There's some interview with the director of Revenge of the Nerds who defended the rapist as a "complex character." Utter nonsense. The real concern with all this how obviously fine Hollywood was and still is with rape. What they considered normal seeped into the media they produced and normalized it to the masses watching it.
On Goonies, the name is fine and isn't problematic. I saw Inside Job take a swipe at it for how they treated Sloth, but he was sympathetic and his abusers were his family, the villains. The two things that don't age too well the was the Japanese People Love Gadgets, which considering it was only the one kid and his father, isn't that bad. It's pretty reasonable for a son to have the same hobby as his father and tech otakus are a thing. The second is the body shaming the Chunk character, which when recording the scene, made the director so uncomfortable, he paid for a gym membership for the kid. There's a lot worse movies from the 80s to watch.