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
I love the comment about women somehow innately fearing ghosts. When I was in college I did a project on ghost hunting – no idea if I believe in ghosts, but ghost HUNTERS fascinate me – that included going to a few ‘haunted’ places. My partner – who suggested the whole thing – was very much a woman, and found all things paranormal to be deliciously interesting. And so did her friend, who, despite also being a woman, tagged along to said haunted places. Shock!
I wonder how many of these depictions of women are pulled out of popular media and pure fiction, and how many are based on, you know, reality.
There are too many comedians — mostly men, in my experience — who think that four letter words are intrinsically funny, and three or more in a sentence make it irresistibly hilarious.
Hey, “shit fuck damn!” is a good swear! Not particularly comedic though, more stubbed toe funny.
Regarding ghosts, there’s apparently a particular frequency, 17 Hz I think it was, that we can just barely not quite actually hear — our brains register it, but we don’t hear it — and the weirdness of that can cause the sorts of shivers that lots of supposedly haunted places have. So yeah, a lot of the time it’s nothing more interesting than “neurology is weird” (which is interesting, but not paranormal)
I’m female and personally not a fan of the reboot. I don’t really like the fact that they chose to do it as a reboot. If it had been done as a different branch of the same outfit or in a later time period I’d be all for it, but as it stands now being a remake with a female cast I feel like they’re erasing the old version which was a very good memory from my childhood. It was the first non animated film I ever got to go see in the theaters as a child.
That having been said these guys reasons are idiotic. Women can and do invent things and the fact that men didn’t allow them to vote has nothing to do with whether they could have come up with it or not.
That whole standing on the chair over a mouse was an overused comedy gag for TV. However since they want to bring that up maybe we should let a spider loose at one of their conventions and watch them scatter.
Afraid of ghosts? Really? The majority of working psychic mediums are female and they spend most of their waking hours talking to ghosts.
My husband liked to use a nice rhythmic emphasis for cursing.
Oh shit! oh fuck!
Oh poop! oh damn!
… rolls off an aggravated tongue with a resounding sequence of verbal thumps.
“This is about our childhoods!” is the only thing they got right.
Many women are ghost hunters and urban explorers, etc etc. Mice are cute. That “men did it first” should be the first clue about male privilege. The rest..meh. Goofy.
I was trying to remember what Hudson had said about women; I knew it wasn’t great. Hadn’t heard about Murray.
Don’t have heroes, kids. They’ll break your hearts.
In re: cussing, my mom is fond of shitfuckhellpissdamnscrew, all in one breath, when she realizes she’s going to have to go back in whatever document and redo something, which will screw up the formatting after that point.
My dad would tend to bark a short cuss when he’d get himself with a tool. He’s lucky all he ever got from his band saw was flesh wounds. I saw his radial arm saw pick up a piece of wood and throw it across the workshop, once. Kind of made me take power tools more seriously than a heart attack.
Anyway, my folks had to have The Talk with me before I even started school, about what words to say when.
These people are so stupid, posting their exact words without editorialising actually seems like a low blow. (Not that they don’t deserve it.)
Also, women stand on chairs and scream when they see mice? “Nice” to see that stereotypes from the 50s are alive and well.
Three comedians that have for realz made my sides hurt: Maria Bamford, Diane Ford, Eddie Izzard and an additional honorable mention to Patton Oswalt.
proxieme:
When I was stationed in Biloxi, MS they called those palmetto bugs. Such a cute name for a bug that three of could carry your trash can away. Ecch!
My favorite curses are ones that sound wrong, but ridiculous, but almost right.
For instance, yelling “Bucking Finches!” always feels really good, especially because when I stop being a bad mood, it makes me draw cute little finches in western tack.
I grew up on Ghostbusters and knowing that every character played by BIll Murrey was a douchebag. During my childhood, I always wondered why I couldn’t relate to any character pushed on us by Hollywood. While this movie is ruining the childhood of a bunch of fuckwits, it’s actually saving mine. Karma can be a bitch sometimes.
Do you feel like every reboot is “erasing” the original, or only this one?
Oh noes! The wimminz are erasing the menz. What about the poor menz?
RIP, Ghostbusters, your tragic death from blood loss secondary to cooties came far too young. Sleep well, sweet prince!
/s
If they’d shown this much outrage over the Spiderman reboot with Andrew Garfield I might take this nerd rage seriously. As it is, looks like more MRA opportunism.
They should take their own advice and stop making it about “them”.
RIP Harold Ramis.
BVH
Hell, if they’d shown this much outrage over any reboot, I’d maybe take them seriously. But, I rarely take nerd rage seriously as it is. There’s just too much of it all the damn time.
Just like when they announced Thor was going to be a woman. Which has happened in the fucking comics. If they didn’t complain about Thor being a frog in the Marvel canon, the only reason I could pin on them not liking Thor as a woman is the fact they just don’t like women.
May he rest in peace. Though I don’t know how he can rest with all this ruckus going on.
“They ruined my childhood!”
Meanwhile women and girls can’t enjoy My little pony without a bunch of boys and men crying ‘fake fans who only want attention’, made disgusting porn and gore fanfiction and art with characters from the show and trying to turn it into ‘man’s show’.
Yeah basically if you are not falling over yourselves hailing the news that the new Ghostbusters movie will feature and all female line up you are a woman hating misogynist. Yeah.
Absolutely no one said that.
There are a lot of reasons to not necessarily be happy about the movie–maybe you don’t like the director, or are afraid it will go in a “raunchy” direction, or maybe you just think it’s too soon, or are just afraid that it, like many reboots and remakes, will suck. Any of those things are legit.
The one reason that’s not:
OH NO WIMMINZ MISANDRY MISANDRY!!!!1!!!!11!!!
Not necessarily, but if you froth and flail about how this is a disaster of biblical proportions – human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! – the odds are pretty good.
I see what you did there, M.
Reasonable — please don’t let this be as bad as the teenage mutant ninja turtles remake!
Not reasonable — it’ll ruin my childhood!!!
Seriously though, if this ends up as bad as that was, I may be more than a bit upset.
If you think this constitutes erasure of your precious snowflake childhood, then the answer is simple: Don’t see it.
And if you think a remake with all female characters would suck because feeeemales, then you are a misogynist, and an idiot to boot.
See how easy that is?
Paul Feig is really good. I have every confidence it will be far better than the Ninja Turtles remake.
I have actually seen someone jump on a _desk_ at the sight of a mouse. Does that count?
He was a coworker, and I have never seen a man in a suit grab a briefcase and end up on a desk so quickly. It was pretty funny.