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
*But I think. Not doing so well on the typing today, am I?
“I also love centipedes, but THEY ARE NOT BETTER THAN CATS. ”
Only by a solely-quantitative comparative analysis of the pedal extremities between the two species. Venom palps seem prima facie to be inferior to an ability to purr as a factor in pet selection.
Centipedes vs. Cats
Hmm. Obviously I vote for cats and am firmly pro furinatti. I didn’t even realize someone could be pro exoskeletonatti.
Centipedes vs cats – or, indeed, anything but spiders vs cats – definitely cats… But spiders vs cats would be a tough one. Don’t make me choose between my furry friends and my eight-legged buddies!
If your notions about half the human race come from old Tom and Jerry cartoons, I imagine suspension of disbelief comes a little too easily to you, dudebro. Time to lower the cables and get acquainted with Realityland.
Moms Mably, Elaine May, Lily Tomlin (been a while since she’s done standup, but yes I’ve paid to see her. Bought her albums too.) Brett Butler (she was BRILLIANT before she got that sitcom. Could say the same about Roseanne. Though Roseanne’s sitcom was very good, at least until the last season or so.) Wanda Sykes. Paula Poundstone. Ellen DeGeneris. Laura Kightlinger. Kathy and Mo. Margaret Cho. Elaine Boosler. Judy Tenuta. (Yes. She made me laugh, OK?) Sarah Silverman. Those are just some of the personal favorites that this 56 year old came up without taking too much time or thinking too deeply about it. Leaving out some names (Phyllis Diller, Joan Rivers) because they never appealed to me. This of course is not to mention the younger generation. I do love Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, but I don’t even know if they do stand-up per se.
And of course that’s just stand-up. Talk about comic actors and writers and the list grows exponentially. (Did Jennifer Saunders and/or Dawn French ever do stand up?)
Funny how some dudes assume that their opinion, their point of view is somehow the default for the human race.
I would pay the crap out of tickets to see Amy Poehler’s or Wanda Sykes’s stand up. I’d probably pay to see Ellen eat lunch… When I was a kid I was a big fan of Wendy Liebman before she vanished off the face of the earth, never to be heard from again. I would’ve paid for tickets to her show back then.
Julia Louis Dreyfus is not a stand up comedian but she is a fantastic comedic actress. I love Elaine from Seinfeld and Veep is a great show.
Nice, I just wasted half a day by being an idiot. Actual conversation between me and person at the doctor’s office:
Me: Hello! My doctor says I need to do a blood test.
Her: OK. Testing for what?
Me: I don’t know.
Her: Well..
Me: I have all the info on a piece of paper at home by the bed.
Her: Maybe go home and bring that piece of paper?
Me: But.. this line was 3 hours long.
Her: …
Me: MISANDRY!!111!½½½!
OK that last part didn’t happen. But I am so pissed off with myself right now, I’m gonna eat a whole bag of potato chips as punishment.
I’m a woman who grew up with the Ghostbusters. I own the movies on several different formats. I preordered the Real Ghostbusters box set from Time Life for $180. I’d say for the first few seasons it ranks as my absolute favorite cartoon.
This is the first time I’ve heard of a reboot, but hey it’s got my interest. A good reboot shouldn’t be a complete rehash.
Maybe it will make up for the terrible last few seasons of the cartoon that turned Janine into a sickeningly nice “mother figure” and stuck her in a pink jumpsuit.
Roseanne Barr
Sandra Bernhard
Margaret Cho
Sara Silverman
Ellen Degeneres
Janeane Garofalo
Lisa Lampanelli
Caroline Rhea
Paula Poundstone
Laura Kightlinger
Kathy Griffin
Rosie O’Donnell
I mean there’s so many of them I could name but these just happen to be my favorites.
My daughter has seen the Ghostbuster movies, mostly because I love sharing my childhood favorites with her. She loved them, and I can’t wait to take her to this movie! It’s about time that Hollywood starts to make adventure movies for girls! When the movies are dominated by stories being told from the perspective of men, boys and more men everywhere you look, it is truly disgusting that these creatures freak out when girls and women get one frigging movie. I mean where the hell is our Wonder Woman movie ffs!?
On Nr 2: I-I….what?! So much stupid. Too many arguments. I can’t even.
(Been lurking for a while, love the blog and the comments)
Rita Rudner has made me cry laughing. I would pay so much money to see her. And Paula Poundstone is fantabulous on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”. I’ve only heard a couple of clips of Mary Mack, but they were awesome. Garfunkel and Oates and the Doubleclicks have some great comedy songs. Shout out to some of the BBC comedic actresses I love as well: Dawn French, Miranda Hart, and Patricia Routledge.
Something I think gets missed a lot with this kind of “Women can’t do humor” trolling: It is also possible to come up with a really big list of male comedians who are painfully unfunny, several of whom manage to have quite cushy careers anyway.
I’m not a big fan of centipedes, but I do adore spiders. Mainly because I REALLY dislike bugs that try to get at my food and spiders 1)have no interest in people food and 2) have great interest in devouring the bugs that do have interest in people food.
I think I’d still rather pet a cat than a spider, though.
Kristen Schaal is hilarious, and I like Garfunkel & Oates as well. It’s difficult to list funny female stand-up comedians because I rarely find any stand-up comedians funny at all, but there are a few good ones. Two of my favorite Swedish comedians are Nour El Refai and Emma Knyckare, both women.
This “women aren’t funny” meme is just confusing at this point.
They do know that this is a Paul Feig project, right? And Bill Murray is the one who recommended going in this direction? How on earth does that make this part of the feminist plot to take over the world?
Southern US?
When I first moved down to southern Alabama, I saw a huge roach crawl across the kitchen floor in the house we were moving into.
No biggie, not entirely unexpected – military housing, a duplex.
I logged it, rolled my eyes that I’d have to keep *everything* in containers, and walked over to take care of it.
Then…THE FRIKKIN’ THING FLEW AT MY FACE.
WHAT. THE. HELL.
Yes, I screamed.
Have you not seen Freaks and Geeks?
They’ve both been co-opted (Murray’s a sleeper agent) by the Great and Grand Feminist Conspiracy.
Now that you’ve been told about it, expect your welcome package.
It has scented candles and nut crackers (the little metal wedge kind, not the holiday kind – I mean, can you imagine carrying one of those in your purse?).
Or death.
It all really depends on what the Matriarchs decide.
OK, this right here:
Has me convinced that this is all one elaborate troll on the MGTOW community.
I mean, no one can be dense enough to actually make that the crux of their conversation, right?
…Right?
Sarah Millican
http://youtu.be/dAqLpxCe2g4
Paula Poundstone is hysterical. So was Carol Burnett. And just listening to an NPR segment on Tig Notaro made me nearly giggle myself to death.
a gender that will jump on a chair when they see a mouse
Because this is a Real Thing That Actually Happens In Reality!
More Real Things That Actually Happen In Reality:
– If you drop an anvil on someone’s head, they turn into a concertina.
– If you drop a piano on someone’s head, their teeth will be replaced with piano keys.
– If you get drunk, actual bubbles will come out of your mouth.
– If you paint a trompe l’oeil tunnel on a cliff face, cars will be able to pass through it. Don’t try running through yourself, though!
– If Droopy wants to find you, he will find you.
Stay tuned for more Real Things That Actually Happen In Reality!
“Feminize” used as a pejorative really pisses me off.
Oh, and of course, not forgetting:
– Like a woman, if an elephant sees a mouse, it will jump on a chair.
Guess elephants can’t be ghostbusters either 🙁
Poor MGTOW menz. They will have to console themselves with the few movies out right now that feature men. If they are really hankering for a man-fueled comedy, they can indulge themselves with “Night at the Museum 3” (I’m sure it’s super-original and not at all derivative of anything ever) or “The Wedding Ringer” (again, this is sure to be highly original).
If they really need to feed their single hero fantasies, They *only* have “Unbroken” “American Sniper” or “Taken 3”. Gosh, so few featuring men! Or, if they are more serious minded, “The Imitation Game”. If they prefer animation, “Big Hero 6”. If they want an ensemble cast, “The Hobbit 3″… so few!
And I didn’t even mention “Birman”, “Black or White”, “Black Sea”, “Blackhat”, “Boyhood”, “Foxcatcher”, “The Loft” (about married guys who share a penthouse to have affairs? Really?), “Theory of Everything”, “Boy Next Door” (yeah, a woman gets top billing but “boy” is in the title), “Mordecai”, “Paddington”, “Selma”, “Project Almanac”. This is just movies you can see right now at my local theater. Poor menz! Almost no representation.