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Fresh off their wildly successful boycotts of Mad Max: Fury Road and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the fellas at Roosh V’s internet garbage site Return of Kings have now set their sights on the lady-fied Ghostbusters.
Oh, wait, I’m being told that their previous boycotts were not so much “wildly successful” as “hilariously ineffectual,” and that The Force Awakens took less than two months to generate more than $2 billion in worldwide ticket sales. That’s BILLION, with a “b” and an “illion.”
Well, let’s just set that aside for now, because Return of Kings contributor David Garrett Brown has new marching orders for Roosh’s cuture warriors:
We urge readers and others to boycott this film at all costs. Do not add to Sony Pictures’ feminist-loving coffers or help pay for Melissa McCarthy’s next cheeseburger.
Uhhmm
Sorry, drifted off for a moment there thinking about cheeseburgers.
Anyway, this isn’t the first time RoK has attacked the as-yet-unreleased all-lady Ghostbusters. In a post last year, RoK’s JD Unwin attacked the ghost-based comedy on the grounds that Ghostbusting has traditionally been an all-male profession, or something:
Like the proverbial kid sister who would fume at the fact that her brother and his friends would lock her out of the male only clubhouse, the feminists and their mangina accomplices in the media once again demonstrate their need to forcibly intrude upon any perceived male bastions.
Oh, he was also deeply offended that Melissa McCarthy, one of the new Ghostbusters, is fat, so having her “run around the city with a 35-lb proton pack strapped to her girth defies the laws of physics.”
This is pretty much what Brown thinks as well. How dare a film depict women as scientists, when everyone knows that in the real world women are incapable of STEM logic.
No one has adequately explained why, in a world where everything from Microsoft to Snapchat is male-generated, the new globe-saving paranormal clean-up team is all female. Just because is what we have been told. Is it not enough, for example, that women, without superior qualifications, are prefered 2-1 for STEM faculty positions? Evidently not.
Meanwhile, Melissa McCarthy is still fat.
In multiple areas, including gender, race and the celebration of obesity, Ghostbusters 3 is a symbol of more or less everything that is wrong with both society and the filmmaking industry seeking to protect it. For your own self-respect, we vociferously recommend you keep further away from this film than Melissa McCarthy does from diets and good exercise.
Weirdly, I don’t recall any Red Pillers ever criticizing, I dunno, John Candy or John Belushi or Kevin James for “celebrating obesity” by existing while fat.
Brown also tries to piggyback on the fairly widespread criticism of the film’s rather troubling racial politics — casting white actresses as scientists while making Leslie Jones’ character a street-smart stereotype.
That’s a pretty, er, ironic criticism to find on Return of Kings, a site run by an unashamed racist who was openly flirting with the white supremacist “alt-right” up until he realized, fairly recently, that the white supremacists he was trying to win over actually see him as a “greasy” Middle Easterner and suspected “muzzie” (Muslim).
Apparently untroubled by this massive hypocrisy, Brown charges that
Leslie Jones’ Ghostbusters 3 character is exactly the sort of readily angered black woman liberals want. Beat-ups like in Ferguson, Missouri depend on this drastically dumbed-down caricature of African-Americans.
Wait, what?
Brown is also angry — and I’m not kidding here — that the four lady Ghostbusters visited some sick kids in a hospital last year. How dare they!
Naturally, the Return of Kings commenters are as excited as Brown is by the prospect of not going to see the film, and celebrated by posting, well, the horrific bigoted crap they always post.
Some highlights:
Bigotry poupourri!
Women are all a bunch of welfare cheats/affirmative action hires eating bon bons!
“They” all just want free stuff!
Ha ha women can’t science!
The ladies look like dudes!
This one is my favorite one:
I really hope that Sony’s publicists use some of that for the movie posters.
My favourite lady scientist is Dr Leavitt in The Andromeda Strain.
In the book the character is male and there was some resistance from the film’s director to the screenwriter changing this. In fairness that was because he feared the intention was just to have a woman as eye candy. It seems generally accepted now that she’s the best character in the film. The director certainly came round to that way of thinking. The actress is brilliant and the screenplay gave her a lot to work with.
ETA: a quick google reveals the actress is called Kate Reid.
It’s absolutely true that all nuclear ghostbusting technology has been created by men.
How much nuclear ghostbusting technology do we have again? None? Well I guess the men have been busy.
Say, isn’t this movie directed BY A MAN?
Oops, there goes another checkmate.
@ sir bodsworth
Well you don’t see many ghosts around so presumably someone must have invented the technology.
WWTH:
It’s okay. Mentions of Amy Acker are always pertinent, on any topic, and always welcome!
Also welcome are any mentions of Felicia Day or Sigourney Weaver, (just because!)
*Whistles to keep giraffes away*
Pretty sure she can afford it without any help from these doofi.
For that matter, I’m pretty sure she’s pulling down more per year than all of them combined.
Oh noes, ANOTHER checkmate!
JD! You don’t seem to know a thing about women in science!
You’re not familiar with Marie Sklodowska Curie? She worked with radiation and won the Nobel Prize twice.
How about Rosalind Franklin, who made important contributions to the understanding of DNA?
Then what about Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, the marine biologist and environmentalist who got the world to stop spraying DDT around casually because it was killing birds and other wildlife? She was one of the early popularizers of modern environmentalism.
JD, dude, you seem really pompous. And mean. Plus you’re ignorant.
Is that the look you were going for?
Evidently yes.
The running gag in the original Ghostbusters is that these regular, or even somewhat out-of-shape characters are tasked with saving everyone. They are the unlikely heroes, the ‘egg-heads’ and everymen.
Dude complaining that a character can’t possibly run around the city with her heavy load is kind of ironic. He should re-visit the original films if he has some odd notion that these guys were action heroes.
Also: Happy Womens Day!
@Miss Andry
Same as it ever was. The self-conscious masculinity these guys worship has always been fragile.
Oops! I should have addressed my remarks to David Garrett Brown, not his fellow MRA JD Unwin.
seems a good place to share one of my favorite youtube science popularizers and women-in-STEM advocates:
Wait. Ignoring stuff like individual variation, training and practice, this being a movie, etc… Why would a person who’s (for example) five times the weight of an item have a harder time carrying it than a person who’s (for example) only three times its weight? Are the laws of physics in MRA Land different to the laws of physics here on Earth?
Oh of the other arguments they make is “Girls can;t be ghostbuster because girls a scared of ghosts”
Apparently they forgot about this scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjFKsJjCP0
FYI, “when is the International Men’s Day” show up to yammer, it is “19th of November, now STFU GTFOH”. #InternationalWomensDayProblems
And if they get too obnoxious and you need a break from incessant MRA whining, here’s a neat web browser app to soothe and make interesting and fabulous patterns.
I look forward to going to see this with my (STEM) scientist girlfriend.
And an all-female Predator sounds great – let’s start casting:
I’d like to see Claudia Black, Ava Vidal and Awesome Kong in it. Any other suggestions?
@Skiriki
That certainly explains why there seems to be twice as much stuff about her marriages, divorces and sex scenes (including such gems in the article as “It is important to note that … Hedy Lamarr remained single for the last 35 years of her life” and in the edit history as “The clip [of a sex scene from a movie] is available on YouTube”) as there is about, well, anything that matters.
If there are any Wiki editors here, Skiriki’s found your next project.
Apparently. They’ve also apparently never seen shot putters or competitive weight lifters. Not all of them are fat, but many of them are.
Those must be fake geek boys. The majority of horror movie protagonists are women or girls.
Ooh, fun. I made a galaxy.
@Skiriki that is really cool.
A random scribble
@Mathieu Tremblay
To be fair, these are dudes who had an easier time relating to BB8 in SW: TFA because it was white (and ostensibly male, as all non-gendered things inevitably become in their world) than Rey, as she was FEEEEEEEEE-male, or Finn, because he was black. In their world, things must be both white and probably-male to count. Because dudebrologic.
Also, Predator is the wrong franchise if they wanna talk about rape. Do these super manly dudes not get the Alien series at all? Oh, wait, there’s already a lady lead. That probably scared them more than the Alien.
Hey, who feels like facepalming? I just found an article on Wikipedia’s misogyny… That is itself pretty damn misogynistic, blaming ladybrainz and wimpy wimminz over systemic bias in STEM and sexist bullying (both are mentioned, but quickly glossed over). Misogynyception.
“Wait until we get Predator with an all-female commando squad…Watch them all survive by destroying the masculine Predator,who symbolizes the patriarchy an rape culture because he targets the females and stalks them”
Did… did anybody else read that and think, “wow, that sounds like a really good movie”? Cause I would watch the shit outta that.
@reimalebario I’d add Angela Bassett, Emily Blunt, and Michelle Yeoh to that awesome cast list. Oh! And Charlize Theron.
I hope Hollywood continues this trend of making movies that pass The Furiosa Test.
Maybe after they master that one, they can also master the Bechdel Test, the Mako Mori Test, and the Sexy Lamp Test.
Or any of these media tests for women in movies.