80s movies were fabulously awful in that way, which probably is
part of their endurance value. I believed the John Hughes
stereotypes for a long time - still shaking them off.
Thank you for your astute analysis, and yes, it appears the
person who made the observation was using Sociopath in the
common form, as a catch-all that includes sociopathy,
psychopathy, anti-social personality disorder and Aspergers,
among other often lumped together "pathologies". [I'd prefer to
call them personality types but I gotta stick with the context
even if I disagree]