Have you heard? The upcoming Ghostbusters reboot will feature women in the lead roles. Men who hate women seem to be taking the news hard.
And nowhere do they seem to be taking it harder than on MGTOW HQ, a forum devoted to men who are “Going Their Own Way” from women by talking about how much they suck online all day every day.
The assembled MGTOWers have not only determined that the movie will suck but have also figured out why.
So here are the Top 3 Reasons the New All-Female Ghostbusters Will Suck According to a Bunch of Guys Who Hate Women:
1) Because women can’t invent things.
As some dude calling himself TheShaman writes:
Obviously its not gonna be a team of women who created the technology to be ghostbusters- women don’t create anything nowadays except thugspawns and epic fails.
2) Because women are a bunch of copycats.
Mongolking explains:
Your movie’s a gimmick because men did it first. …
[H]ow often do women ever take a risk and do something different that was a success?
Everything they celebrate – from getting the vote, to being elected politicians, to becoming clergy, to going to college, to getting on company boards, to winning Nobel prizes – men had not only done first, they created it out of nothing.
So now we have a group of low ambition women wanting to feminise “Ghostbusters”. That’s the very definition of “uninteresting”.
3) Because everyone knows that women are scared of ghosts. And mice.
TheShaman again:
Women are usually the ones screaming ABOUT ghosts- In an already outlandish plot, we’re now expected to suspend our sense of disbelief to the extent that the very segment of the population that is usually victimized BY ghosts is going to “protect us?” Hell, anything to do with ____BUSTING, whether it be rodent busting, bug busting, etc- its done on the whim of a women who is terrified of whatever it is she wants to eradicate!
Unless the proton packs in the new movie are activated by women pissing themselves in fear, I can’t imagine me enjoying anything out of this new movie.
PhilosopherStoned adds:
I’m not going to suspend disbelief and say that a gender that will jump on a chair when they see a mouse will all of a sudden not only fight ghosts, but have the initiative to start a company that does so. For a movie that where guys trap ghosts in machines, an all female crew just does not seem plausible.
So a 100-foot-tall Stay Puft marshmallow man that is an incarnation of a Sumerian god is the epitome of plausibility, but the idea of women actually starting a company is beyond the pale?
H/T — VforVanarchy on Reddit’s GamerGhazi subreddit, who found the meme I used to illustrate this post on Twitter
Actually, I’d like to draw any lurking MRAs’ attention to a fine company called ACME. As a purveyor of solid, reliable products that never malfunction, especially not ironically, I think they offer the kind of quality that readers of the manosphere have come to expect.
Christopher Hitchens’ blathering about this in Vanity Fair made me lose the last modicum of respect I had for him.
Mongolking signs off by revealing that he thinks…
And yet he’s all up in the comments anyway, like the countless shining wits that write “who?” on obituaries. Broadcasting your unsolicited opinion on everything, even if you openly admit how much you don’t care, certainly shows dedication to the cause of MGTOW.
@Miss Diketon
Definitely not his finest moment. Cringe inducing all the way through.
Flying cockroaches.
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Reminds me of this article I once read on an otherwise respectable sci-fi site that was just… weird. And bigoted. I wonder if this is where some commenters on the posts you listed got their ideas.
http://www.scified.com/site/ghostbusters/the-castration-of-the-ghostbusters-franchise
A tl;dr of the article can be summed up that the original, all-male ghostbusters movie was a family film for everyone regardless of gender but that an all-female cast would… SOMEHOW turn away men from it. I don’t even get it.
I mean, maybe it’s ’cause I’m not the biggest Ghostbusters fan but if a movie turns you away because of an all-female cast, then you must be a very insecure person.
Two of the current SNL cast memebrs are friends-of-friends, so I feel kind of bad for saying this, but Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones are the best things going for that show right now. I’m nervous about how optimistic I am about this right now but I can’t see it being any worse than Ghostbusters II.
Adam Sandler hasn’t been funny since the 90s and he still gets paid loads of money to make completely unoriginal movies.
Some will argue that he was never funny but I like a few of his old movies.
And fancy him being any kind of expert on that. The man was funny just by accident…that is, if “I’m an islamophobic warmonger because ATHEISM, bitchez” and “okay, waterboard me and I’ll show you it’s not torture…oh wait, this IS torture” can be truly funny. (Seeing as I have a sick sense of humor, I’ll confess that I did laugh, even though that was most certainly not the intent.)
I remember Adam Carolla saying that women weren’t funny. But all the funny women we’ve listed are better than the Man Show. I think the men who say we can’t be funny are threatened. The professional comedians are threatened by the competition. But guys who aren’t comedians are threatened by funny women too. Men are told that being funny is a desirable quality in a man. It’s something women want. It’s a good way for them to win friends. I think it’s wrapped up in masculinity just as much as physical strength and driving. They don’t feel manly if theirs a woman in the room who is funnier than them. So they zealously deny that we can be funny at all. Also, it offends them when there is more to us than boner pleasing and sandwich making.
There’s not theirs. Geez.
Just gotta say that I hated Ghostbusters. If we hadn’t taken our young son to see it, I’d have left early on from sheer boredom. Not my kind of thing. So I won’t see this one, probably, but jeez, the MRM just once again proves its irrelevance and whininess.
As for ghosts, we kids felt there was one in our house. Years later, after my dad’s death, my mom moved out of that house after selling it to a woman with a family. One day I’m in the bathtub and my husband says, “You need to come to the phone, Shelley [the woman who’d bought the house] wants to talk to you about the ghost.” My mom would never have said anything about a ghost because she flatly refused to find credible any of the things we felt/heard/saw. Shelley gave a description of the ghost that exactly matched my youngest sister’s description and she had never talked to my sister. To this day I don’t know what to make of it. It is irrational to believe in ghosts . . .
Also, I too have a cat named Sekhmet, but she does come near matching her name if only in meanness (at times–other times she’s a sweetie).
Whenever I hear someone trying to explain their thought process behind the “women aren’t funny” meme, it usually goes something like this: Men need to be funny or women won’t like them. Women don’t need to be funny because they have boobs. Case closed.
Makes me just close my eyes, shake my head and back away slowly.
Women can be funny AND have bewbs?
Misandry!
Why choose? Some spiders certainly seem furry enough. Just look at pictures of tarantulas.
I scrolled all the way to the end to write SUE PERKINS, but a few people have beat me to it 🙂 I like the new Dr Who, but I was hoping for Sue Perkins or Sandi Toksvig. Thanks for the Sarah Millican clip–in my personal experience Geordies are always funny.
I agree, Adam Carolla is one of the most unfunny people making a living at comedy today.
I think that, for a certain kind of guy, being funny is all about power. Not having any of the other standard alpha markers like gym muscles or a fat wallet, the only way they can think of to demonstrate High Social Value is to come up with new insults and put downs for betas, manginas, women, and minorities. See: mouthy playground twerps, everything ever written by Heartiste.
Funny women invert the power structure (they notice things! they use words! they’re uppity! they mock!) so MRAs regard them as an abomination. Punching down is what they understand. Other forms of humor like satire, wordplay, wit, and self-deprecating observational comedy go right over their head, so they’re absolutely serious when they say they don’t find female comedians funny. But Howard Stern, Andrew Dice Clay, and movies where somebody gets it in the nads: hilarious!
http://maximumble.thebookofbiff.com/2015/01/29/1031-ruined/
“Ghostbusters, like Caddyshack, occupies the part of the male brain that never grew older than twelve — the rest of the brain is dedicated to thinking about boobs and, yes, there is quite an overlap”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/all-lady-ghostbusters-announced-destroying-last-vestige-of-manhood-left-in-america/
On a sadder note, it turns out Ernie Hudson is a sexist who uses MRA vocabulary like “Females” instead of “Women.” Yuck.
(This may have been posted before, but I couldn’t find it if so.)
Sorry, Bill Murray fans, but he was accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife.
Fortunately there are tons of hilarious female comedians who have not been accused of anything like that. Fortune Feimster and Cameron Esposito are a few of my current favorites.
Of course, it shouldn’t need to be said, but:
it’s not about them.
it’s not about their childhood.
It’s about the children who will be watching this film when it comes out.
It’s about the childhood of those who are actually children, and creating a new legacy for them.
Goddamn it, schwadevivre, you had me in tears with that clip. Dear divines above, Sarah Millican is a gift to humanity. Bless her.
dhag
I would say just send ’em over this way, because we have tons of hilarious women here, but I don’t think they’d appreciate being the butt of our jokes instead of us being the butt of theirs.
When it comes to MRAs, I usually find that their mindset is “Females aren’t good at anything except housework, taking care of kids, making me sammiches, and pleasing my boner!”
To which I just laugh in their face and continue being amazing. Because nothing pisses off an MRA more than a woman who’s not only good at things (I’m a semi-decent artist, and I’m pretty good at video games), but who is confident in herself and doesn’t care what they have to say.
For as much as they hate women, they really do want our attention.
I read that Jerry Lewis also claimed that women weren’t funny. We should take him seriously, because ‘not being funny’ is a subject on which he is well informed.
I saw a Rita Rudner special on television, and she just killed. It was the first time I realized how structured and patterned a seemingly spontaneous act could be, and how much it added to the comedic effect.
Regarding the movie, I might very well go see it. Our older son seems to have no problem with women as protagonists.