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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 22 year old sister in law is a brilliant engineer. These guys should get out more.
kingodysseus sounds like he’s had a terrible previous relationship. Or, more realistically, he’s never had a relationship but imagines they’re all terrible.
I was just thinking about this the other day when I first saw that article with the trailer for the new Ghostbusters. I was just like, “It’s only a matter of time before manbabies start boycotting again.”
Like anyone is supposed to care what movies these dumb turds see or don’t see.
Cheeseburger slut ghost, anyone?
Wasn’t Ray Stantz in the original Ghostbusters franchise fat?
It didn’t “defy the laws of physics” then : /
Oh, so we get ‘triggered by words’; while they, get triggered by family friendly movies?
@Paradoxy:
After watching Guardians of the Galaxy and arguing* about it for hours with friends, we coined the Angsty Firearm test. Like the sexy lamp test, it asks whether a female character couldn’t just be replaced with a gun which kills people for the male character in exchange for receiving reassurance from them.
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*I not only hated that film, but to this day feel insulted by it. Every other geek out there seems to disagree with me.
@Stella
I can’t believe I forgot Angela Bassett – I remember thinking “Who is this woman? She’s a totally awesome action hero!” when I saw Strange Days in the cinema.
I would pay money for an MRA version of CAPAlert. It’d be the fuinniest thing ever
Hello.
I guess that they were always hunting ghost mammoths for women before feminism… And maybe also pink elephants.
Maybe doing reboot is ok, and possibly empowering women, but original stories are more appealing to me. I mean it surely could be nice to see The Magnificient Seven or the Dirty Dozen with an all-women main cast (there are already some equivalent to that in a domain beginning by p and finishing by y, but well…), but i am pretty sure there can be good scenarists able to provide interesting new scripts for all-women main cast movies. First imitate, then inovate !
Have a nice day.
@EJ : I didn’t see Guardian, but your test is a good idea to keep in mind.
to be honest I wasn’t planning to see the new ghostbusters but if these assholes are boycotting it I’m all in for watching it at least 10 times. On another note that last tragic excuse for humanity kingodysseus has an avatar referencing Medieval Total War 2. So my favourite Greek myth and favourite game ruined. Shit.
EJ (The Other One):
I got two-pronged reason to dislike Guardians of the Galaxy. It has good bits, and then it has bad bits. Sadly, those bad bits really stick out like a sore thumb, because they are really bad.
1) Writing:
1.1) We’re TOLD that Star-Lord is so goooood even as a kid and as an adult. Told, not really shown; the fight with frog-killers is in his words (and while I’m inclined to believe — kids at that age can be very loaded with empathy until the world beats it out of them — it is still in category ‘told’), and as an adult, he’s pretty tosspot of a character (judging his actual actions), who does this good thing for all the wrong reasons (bounty, most of the time).
1.2) So Drax, are you literal or not? You don’t get the cut-the-throat gesture, but you call Gamora a whore, so that means you think she literally prostitutes herself, while smacking her “sister” for daring to call her a traitor, which she actually is from Thanos’ side’s point of view — she switched the teams, therefore a traitor.
1.3) I’m forced to conclude that Rocket has foaming-in-the-brain, as Discworld’s Gaspode the talking dog would put it. Sometimes “abusive funny” just goes totally overboard and stops being funny.
2) The problem with the director and script writer: James Gunn.
2.1) He memory-holed his extremely unpleasant blog post about “hottest superheroes” once the issue was brought up. It involved such quips as calling Tony Stark’s facial hairstyle “prison p*ssy” and several homophobic remarks about other male heroes. You can guess what kind of commentary was involved regarding women.
2.2) But most importantly, the same blog in a different post showed how disrespectfully he dealt with a female representative of a media company, when she contacted him regarding changing the name of a song from “That Fucking Gay Cat” to “That Fucking Cat” instead. He thought it was funny. The rep’s boss who had to step in didn’t think so and declared that the name of the song is changed, or it goes.
2.3) And none of these are readable in archive.org, because he went further in memory-holing the posts.
2.4) All of this suggests that his fratbro attitude seriously leaks into his scriptwriting, and I think that a glance at his movies — oh, let’s say, “Slither” as an example… well. (OMGWTFBBQ and body horror warning for that picture.)
So yeah. I’m definitely giving him and his creations some serious stink-eye, although I do own the GotG on DVD (mostly because I have an obsession about having a full Marvel 2000-and-onward movie collection).
“Everything”? And just who gestated and birthed your sorry ass, punk?
(Not overlooking women’s contributions to science, art, literature, etc….it just irritates me, the way these dipshits always seem to think they, and the world, sprang fully blown from Tesla’s forehead.)
Hmmm… Well if they want to remake “heathers” with an all male cast and a female JD, sure why not.
Do these idiots realize that Hollywood is still white and male controlled, and no movies get made unless studio heads think it will make them money? And the powers that be don’t often do movies with all female principals like this reboot, usually just stuff like steel magnolias and other female bonding dramas. Are they truly lacking in testosterone-heavy films that range from action, to suspense, to comedy, to just about EVERY OTHER GENRE year in and year out that they want to keep another movie from existing simply because it’s a reboot with a female cast of a script guys already got to do?!
It’s not like these whiny man babies boycotting has harmed profits on their previous sacred cows: revised. Maybe they could just shut up and quit making it so damned obvious they’re bitter sad and mangry ijits.
“Boycott at all costs.”
Uh…what “costs”? It’s a boycott. Overinflated rhetoric much, Return of Drama Kings?
@PI
Thank you for the new pile of articles to get lost in.
They are jealous of fictional women.
Sooooooo alpha.
Well, obviously!
It’s Scimence, Not Sheience!!!
Sorry if this has been said but I feel the need:
*fat person exists*
Assholes: OMG STOP CELEBRATING OBESITY
*fat person exists and doesn’t hate themselves*
Assholes: HOW DARE YOU, THINK OF THE CHILDREN.
I can’t be the only one who thinks that that all-female Predator premise sounds amazing, can I?
Just read an article about a new study that shows that ladybrains aren’t actually a thing. Not that we didn’t already know that, but it’s nice when it’s acknowledged. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/12/01/brains-arent-actually-male-or-female-new-study-suggests/
I love science.
Completely off-topic but I though a hat-tip was due to British Comedian Richard Herring for doing sterling service on Twitter heading off the “Why isn’t there an International Men’s Day*” crowd on this International Women’s Day.
https://twitter.com/Herring1967
(*There is, it’s November 19th)
For years, when people would say something misogynistic or depreciating about a woman’s ability (especially in the fields or science or technology), I’d always chime in with,
I thought that was such an over-the-top and ridiculous claim that it was clearly a joke. I think one of these imbeciles overheard me and thought it was true.