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’m the same with centipedes. They freak out and thinking of them actually gives me chills, but if I actually see one, I smash it and give it a burial at sea, so to speak.
Considering that Dean Esmay had never even heard of stop and frisk?
https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/07/11/how-to-lose-a-debate-in-45-minutes-paul-elam-fumbles-his-debate-with-matt-binder/
Glad to see you back contrapangloss!
Alaisvex — you’re half right on the “thugspawn” thing, but I’ve never seen them use anything remotely that racist to refer to biracial kids with a black mother — that’d mean insulting a white guy. (Well, for a narrow definition of race, since Hispanic and African American would be racial and blah. But they only get offended by white women having babies with “thugs”, which is definitely racist asshole for “black”.)
It’s contrapangloss! Someone I recognize! I just came back myself and was all “so many new faces”, good to see you 🙂
I hate to do any fandom gatekeeping, but if they have trouble with female horror protagonists they’re not true horror fans. The majority of horror protagonists are women or girls. A lot of the horror fandom is female too. In fact, Ghostbusters was one of the things that kicked off my lifelong love of the genre even though it’s more of a comedy. So they need to stop prattling on about their childhoods. Those movies were never just for boys.
Thug is definitely the new n word. It came into popularity when Obama took office. It didn’t used to have racial connotations but it’s become a racist dog whistle lately.
@Falconer
I’m not a great speller, so I’ll still call them insects. If it walks like and insect and grosses me out like an insect..
I wonder also if the legendary (and racist) virility and endowment of black men isn’t a factor here too. “They only want a big swingin’ dick, those bitches!”
“Thugspawn”, ugh. Again with the Everlasting Sperm Theory…any woman who has sex with a black man has black-man cooties up the wazoo forever! Gross! Can’t bang, I’d be tainted! Etc.
These migtoes are not only racists, they’re idiots who can’t biology.
Has any woman ever jumped on a chair to escape a mouse outside of a TOM AND JERRY CARTOON!!! And that’s the least stupid statement in the above mentioned paragraph.
/I am intrigued by the women-centered Ghostbusters reboot, I love the casting.
Bleah, centipedes. You’d think living in several houses/apartments infested with them, I’d have gotten used to them. Instead, it takes me 10 minutes of fear paralysis to even smack them with a rolled up magazine (can’t and won’t use anything thinner).
Ghosts, on the other hand–I’ve gone ghost hunting in several towns on many, many occasions. I don’t even necessarily believe in all that, but it’s fun and creepy. Enjoying adrenaline is not limited to men. I’m convinced the MRM is a bunch of kids who think everything in sitcoms/hack stand-up routines is real. You have to either be young with zero knowledge of the real world or just a special kind of stupid to buy into the gender stereotypes as completely as those asshats. My money’s on a mix of the two for the majority.
@dhag85: Cool, I probably shouldn’t have gone all prissy-faced about it. Sorry.
@Falconer
No problem, but you do realize it was a joke, right? I’m not actually trying to convince you that shrimp are insects.
… I’m tired. Sorry. It just flew right over my head.
Maybe thugspawn are tadpoles that beat up the other tadpoles.
Having seen my share of black dongs outside of porn, I have to laugh at this fallacy. And I do laugh. So. HARD. Black men aren’t appreciably bigger than white men (at least not there), and in fact are within the same approximate penile size range overall, but damn how that slave-era myth does persist…
Well I admit I am against the “remake everything, don’t try anything new” direction of hollywood these days, this is so petty I’ve got nothing to say. Do these guys hate the movie Alien too because Ripley didn’t jump on top of a chair screaming when she saw the xeomorph?
PS I love centipedes. Seriously I never got why everyone hates them. They are way better then cats.
Brilliant, I was just discussing this (the OP) last night. The psychic powers of WHTM.
The consensus vote was that a lot of folks aren’t thrilled with the idea of the Ghost Busters reboot casting women in the lead roles. At first I said, “Say whaaaaat?? You GUIZE!”, but the less-than-thrilled atmosphere was mostly due to folk’s wariness with Hollywood and it’s leery track record with women’s roles and representations. Mix that in with the hidiously handled hash of recent reboots (don’t mention Teenage Mutant Ninja Fail) and I kinda get why things might not bode well.
Ah ha ha ha. Ha. Oh MGTOW, what would we do without you.
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… well, we’d know if they’d just GTOW already. Sheesh.
@kirbywarp:
Heck, Epicurus actively opened his school of philosophy to women back in 3rd century BC Athens, and is generally considered to be the first of the Greek scholars to do so. (Others of his era allowed a few women in first, but always as exceptions for specific people, whereas Epicurus made it a general opening.) He also taught slaves.
So, yeah, we have documentation of women as students going back at least a couple of millennia.
@karalora:
You named your cat Sekhmet. I like it. Though it sounds like the cat in question is a little vague on the ‘warrior’ aspect.
The Furrinati are NOT PLEASED.
There actually is some variation (w/in a couple inches) of flaccid penis size based on national origin, it turns out. Peeps from equatorial climes tend to have slightly larger flaccid Johnsons than those from colder places. (Not a big difference though, and we’re talking averages.) When erect, though, yep, they’re all about “yea big.”
Mice are adorable. Particularly when they’re struggling with comically oversized crackers.
In general I’m sick to death of reboots and retreads, but remaking one of my favorite movies with all women – including Melissa McCarthy – is fine with me. I can’t even (in a good way)!
He does realize ghosts (at least as depicted in Ghostbusters) don’t actually exist, right?
OMG I loved Ghostbusters, I was 14 when it came out and I went to the cinema 10 times with my 2 girlfriends to see it. We were obsessed. We wrote a sequel to it, which featured 3 plucky girls. My mum typed it up and told me she had sent it to them (of course she hadn’t). My other friend somehow managed to wangle a backstage visit with BB King at the Edinburgh Playhouse and gave him a copy. Sadly, despite our best efforts, Bill Murray did not jet into Edinburgh to whisk us off to Hollywood fame and fortune.