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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.
*Phone call in Pierre’s office*
“Ghostbusters Inc., Pierre on phone. How can I help you?”
“Hello, this is Dave Brown. I need help, I think my wallet is haunted by an imp or devil or whatever.”
”What kind of haunting do you experience?”
“Every now and then some cash disappears and turns into a movie ticket. It’s usually some crap SJW movie I don’t want to see like Fury Road or The Force Awakens. And the tickets are always non-refundable.”
“OK, this seems like an easy job, possibly a media perception bias imp. It’s a one-person bust job. We’ll send someone right away.”
“Just make sure it’s not a woman. Women never do the job properly.”
“Sir, I can’t guarantee that, as we do not prioritize assignments based on gender. Many of our busters are women and they’re all fully competent.”
“No, you must send a guy! I won’t accept a woman!”
“Sir, you must either take your chances or it’s no deal.”
“No deal! I won’t let a woman bust my wallet at any cost!”
“Sir, if you’re regularly losing money to supernatural foes, the cost of our services to you might be actually negative in the long run.”
“That’s what I mean! Goodbye! I’m gonna call someone else!”
“Sir, I don’t think there are other service providers in this area…Hello?”
Nope, the ladies can’t do science. Nosirree.
I’ve read that when one gains weight, approximately 75% is fat and 25% is muscle. I’ve noticed that I, a fatty, tend to be able to lift heavier things than slim women can (I may possibly even be able to lift slim women, but they would probably get annoyed if I tried). I don’t know where this “fat people are physically weak” idea is coming from.
I want it to be about (twist ending spoiler) how Predators have always been female, and their mission was to end Patriarchy.
There’s a fan theory that the reason we see a new type of Predator in the latest film is that there’s a sexual dimorphism thing going on.
Presumably the reason one is tied up is that he’s a bloke Predator and the lady Predators got fed up with him whinging “But we hunted the humans for you!”
Howcome Leonore Michaelis and Maud Menten never got a Nobel prize? Their work was ground breaking then, and still very much used today.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelis%E2%80%93Menten_kinetics"
FYI Google has decided to hire moot/Chris Poole as their Google+ savior. http://mashable.com/2016/03/07/4chan-creator-joins-google-team/
Can’t believe nobody suggested Michelle Rodriguez for an all-female Predator.
Oh, and let her survive, for a change.
Well, from the unfunny-ness of the trailer, this “boycott” may actually succeed by accident. If Feig isn’t reserving all the really funny moments for the cinematic release…this one could be a real bomb.
It would be too bad if “Return of Klowns” scores a win on a forfeit.
@ Matchstick
I love Richard Herring’s Twitter. My favorite part of International Women’s Day is men saying “omg if there was an International Men’s Day the PC police would be outraged!”
What we have instead is men whining that they don’t have a thing that is so inconsequential to them they didn’t even notice they already had it. It, in fact, didn’t even occur to them to wonder if it existed until they heard about International Women’s Day. And even then, they weren’t curious enough to Google before they took to Twitter to moan about it. Because, of course, it’s women’s job to know when International Men’s Day is.
I always hated math, which is a huge part of science. But I can English like a motherfucker when needed. Love writing. So I feed into that stereotype I suppose. But there are women out there who can math , and I support them!
So much angry Internet men hate on this movie
Of course the comments on that Washington Post article are full of MRAs saying it’s a feminist study and doesn’t count.
I love the irony of them arguing that we have radically different brains and that men are more rational simply because that’s what they feel is true.
@Luzbelitz
Well, it’s asserted in the first 2 movies that they are drawn to hunt in areas of conflict and violence ….. so, yeah. maybe smashing the patriarchy
A guy on twitter today actually said to me, in complete seriousness, that he doesn’t care about feelings only fairness. This is *after* having spent at least a full day arguing with a variety of people about a piece Clementine Ford wrote describing how she came to the decision to always let a woman ask the 1st question after any of her talks. He says this piece is an attack on men and hateful and unfair and he’s totally fixated on one line in the last paragraph where she says “men have said too much for the time being”. He’s got his undies in a bunch because she said “men have said too much” instead of “it’s time for women to talk.” I blocked him a good 8-9 hours ago. For all I know he’s still going on about it.
TL;DR our culture stunts men emotionally to such a degree that they don’t even recognize their emotions as emotions.
Also, morons trying to claim that most brains having a spectrum of “Male” and “Female” structural differences proves that trans people don’t real. Uhh… Shouldn’t it be the literal opposite?
And, bizarrely, one neo-Nazi named Poop going off on an anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying rant. Because Internet.
@LinsayIrene
I suspect that that’s an average, and actual figures vary, but generally speaking, yes. Makes perfect sense, really; carrying around weight is how muscle is built, so the heavier someone is, the more muscle they’ll build up just moving around. There’s also the matter of simple mass when it comes to lifting/moving things. When I was working as a school custodian, there was an incident where I had to get a bulkier colleague’s assistance in getting a file cabinet onto a hand truck. I simply hadn’t got the mass to tilt it off the floor. Generally speaking, bigger people can lift and move heavier stuff than smaller people; that’s physics.
I’ve got an International Women’s Day present for everyone: A movie about black female NASA scientists starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Fucking Monae.
“Which is why liberals are criticizing the film for using an old stereotype of black women.” Oh, silly me, I’m expecting RoK users to actually know something about people they like to criticize.
Katz, thank you for that! I had not heard about it.
One random thing about ghost busting – in pagan Norse society, sorcery* was generally considered a female prerogative. Men *could* do it, but it wasn’t entirely respectable. So if a Viking needed a malelovent spirit banished, a woman would have been the best man for the job (heavy handed joke).
*There’s a specific old Norse word for it; let me see if I can find it.
Seidhr! The ‘dh’ is a character my phone doesn’t have.
@ Kupo, WWTH, SFHC Re: Washington post article
I should have never read the comments. Holy shit.
one commenter says “Is this study peer reviewed?” No, actually, studies published in the National Academy of Sciences get no peer review.
Another says “They only analyzed the surface of the brain and no connections!” Except the study analyzed connectivity using DTI.
Another says “This study doesn’t prove anything” No shit, no scientific study does, EVER. It’s disproving a specific hypothesis.
Another says “This is just correlation” Yeah, ok, you try assigning people randomly into either male or female groups in YOUR study and let me know how that goes.
And those were some of the more scientifically literate comments!
The irony of complaining about women not understanding STEM fields…sigh
language and math are one and the same,
it’s more about guidelines than laws.
there’s poetry found in numerical verse,
and equations abound in each linguistic clause.
i wish they taught math like they taught poetry,
i wish they taught english by rule.
i wish that a bridge could be built ‘tween the two,
in the archipelago that makes up a school.
I wish i could read that article, it sounds great :C I don’t want to subscribe to their newspaper though
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/walkingdead/images/3/3f/Shut-up-and-take-my-money.jpg
EDIT: @Robert,
Good point! One should remember, though, that “seithr” isn’t equivalent to the modern word “magic,” in that it doesn’t encompass all things supernatural. When it was taboo for men to use seid, they still did other things we’d call magic today. Carving enchanted runes, for instance — even in some cases runes that seem intended to protect against seidhr.
This is really troubling. Threatening boycotts of Mad Max: Fury Road or Star Wars: The Force Awakens was doomed to failure because those movies were, respectively, awesome (I am given to understand) and pretty good I guess. This one, on the other hand, looks awful, not because of the fact that it has a female cast, but because it just doesn’t look funny. I don’t care for Melissa McCarthy’s comedy, and Leslie Jones’ character looks as cynically token as I’ve ever seen. I fear that this movie may fail because it simply isn’t good, and the assorted dudebros will take credit for defeating the evil feminazi menace via their boycott. I also fear that studios will see its failure and blame it on the female cast (and thus be hesitant to greenlight more female-led comedies) rather than on a lousy script (and thus be hesitant to greenlight more garbage).
Never was a huge fan of the original GB. Don’t see how a “reboot” 30+ years later is going to change anything. I can guarantee I’ll never watch this steaming pile.