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, it’s about ethics in ghostbusting.
Am I first??
Re: Sekhmet.
Are any of you guys familiar with Inonibird on Tumblr, and their Egyptian Stick Figure Gods?
http://inonibird.tumblr.com/post/73007660820/stick-gods-catfight
…that mouse is my new favorite mouse.
Thanks, Katz!
Hail Epicurus! Even if his name IS now synonymous with culinary excess, he was actually kind of awesome. Sappho, too — she taught poetics to male and female students alike, and was actively bisexual, at least if her love poems are anything to go by. Also independent and mulish as hell. But then, the isle of Lesbos was renowned for its uppity wimmin….
Same here. If you’re going to remake an oldie (snzzzzzz), you might as well go big. And what’s bigger than a gender reversal?
Ooh, congrats on the level-up, Contrapangloss. With actual fire-fighter skills, you’d be more than qualified to be a Ghostbuster, I’ll bet. 😀
The UK is teeming with ghost stories, especially in our older towns. My home town was home to not only dozens of ghosts, but also a world-famous witch. I’ve heard disembodied children’s laughter in one of my local cafes, and whenever anyone’s gaffa tape mysteriously vanished at my dad’s work, it was always attributed the the mischief of the theatre’s ghost. One of my friends from school told me that her mum had once come into her room and caught her talking to someone she couldn’t see. Her young daughter cheerfully explained that it was just a boy called Jack and he was a stable-boy.
Even in the face of well-documented hauntings, we’re all disappointingly unfazed by it all.
I for one am super excited for this movie. Kristen Wiig? YES! Melissa McCarthy? YES! Bridesmaids and The Heat were both HILARIOUS. I don’t have cable so I don’t know the other two ladies. But damn, this has gotta be good!
She is in fact the most mellow cat that ever lived. I have the worst instincts when it comes to naming pets after mythological or folkloric figures. I used to have a dog called Puck, who was routinely outsmarted by his own biscuits.
You are! And your prize is a…uh…Golden Ectoplasm! (yeah, that’s it!)
Also, I’m kind of tickled that the Russian word for mouse is “mish”. Or is that “meesh”? I keep forgetting which i-character is which sound…
Yup. The Hathor Legacy had some great posts on this back in the day. This one’s the classic: Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test
There’s a racial element, too. Latin@s make up about 1/3 of American moviegers (despite being ~1/6 of the overall population) – when was the last time we saw a Latin@ lead, let alone an all-Latin@ cast? There are all-black movies, of course, but they end up being the butt of white comedians’ jokes.
I didn’t know this and I’d like to see your sources, but also, the actually egalitarian nations of the Haudenosanee (“Iroquois”) Confederation had a major influence on the formation of the US Constitution. Take that, American MRAs: your beloved country was formed of ideas borrowed from women. Brown women. (Obviously the influence could have been greater; Haudenosanee women were allowed to vote).
YESSSSSSSS
You know, these guys wouldn’t even *have* Ghostbusters if a teenage girl hadn’t invented modern science fiction.
Given the context, ew.
*dissolves into giggles*
My two cats aren’t the brightest either. One of them keeps burying his food bowl – he gets really intense and anxious about it, and will spend upwards of an hour industriously pulling open a dresser drawer to slowly pull the clothes out, drag them over to the food bowl, and cover it. If he can’t get to clothes or papers, I’ll find all his toys arranged carefully on top of his food.
Then he panics because he’s hungry and can’t find anything to eat. I’ll have to walk him over to the bowl and uncover it for him, and then it is like MANA FROM HEAVEN, OMG HOW DID YOU DO THAT
PhilosopherStoned lives up to his name, because he’s clearly been watching saturday morning cartoons while out of his goddamn gourd.
“Does he think political women never existed until the 19th amendment?”
Eleanor of Aquitaine is a myth made up by feminism to scare MRAs.
just curious- can anyone name ONE comedienne whose standup you would buy a ticket for?
Yeah…me neither
If you are old enough that the original “Ghostbusters” was a major part of your childhood, then aren’t you also far too old to be threatened by a remake?
^Just like Hatshepsut. Feminists travelled back in time to plant evidence of her reign.
I wonder what they’ll say when they realize the all-female recast was Bill Murray’s idea, and two of the leads were his suggestions…
Yep. Though I’ll settle for reboots that do something different or interesting with the material. The Star Trek reboots have been underwhelming, but they at least have that whole “these and the originals are both canon because time travel” thing going for them.
Just wait until they find out that Kate McKinnon will be one of the new Ghostbusters. She’s a very attractive woman who is openly gay, which will undoubtedly anger them to no end. I know how ticked off they get at good-looking women they aren’t allowed to have sex with, even though they’re super-nice guys and all.
I just can’t stop laughing at this. Dude, you suspended disbelief long enough to believe that women scream and jump on chairs when they see a mouse. That’s something they only ever do in old movies (which are notoriously far removed from reality, even that of their own day) — or cartoons! I bet you’ve never seen a real one do that! Also, “guys trap ghosts in machines” is something that only ever happens in movies. In real life, ghosts don’t work like that. And neither do machines. Why would a gender swap entail such a great suspension of disbelief while all the rest of these clearly fictional tropes don’t?
Irony…it is clearly lost on these guys.
AltoFronto:
The city I live in has at least 4 of “the most haunted pub in Britain”.
I’m quite excited to see this reboot. There’s actually guaranteed to be something different about it other than the quality of the effects. I have some small hope it won’t hold to stereotypes – I’d rather see them directly play their male equivalents if they’re planning to make it all pink and ‘feminine’.
In my house, my mom kills the creepy-crawlies. Dad and I are both afraid of them. Mom hates snakes, and I’m not bothered by them, so it all works out.
I’ve never minded mice, though they do make you worry about hantavirus and the like. I always felt bad when I heard a trap snap shut, as a kid. They’re so darn cute.
And I always thought having one tiny garter snake in the basement was infinitely preferable to having spiders.
I loved mice and rats as a kid—to the point of wanting to be one when I grew up—and used to try to befriend the few I came across. Sadly, the fuzzy little ingrates all predator-zoned me.
Also, I watched the spinoff cartoon for Ghostbusters religiously.
I ain’t ‘fraud of no tropes!
Do garter snakes bite?
A story about a woman who gets a snake in the house. (no jumping on chairs)
http://alldownunder.com/australian-authors/henry-lawson/drovers-wife.htm
The drover, an ex-squatter, is away with sheep. His wife and children are left here alone.
Four ragged, dried-up-looking children are playing about the house. Suddenly one of them yells: “Snake! Mother, here’s a snake!”
The gaunt, sun-browned bushwoman dashes from the kitchen, snatches her baby from the ground, holds it on her left hip, and reaches for a stick