It’s a dark day for the world’s beleaguered male gender. Again. The Feminazi overlords at Sony have released a horrifying video of what appears to be actor Chris Hemsworth forced to play a buff hunky character who is sort of an idiot in the upcoming Lady Ghostbusters.
I have pasted this video in below. Make sure you are sitting down before you watch it.
Generally, that’s more comfortable, though there are people who swear by that whole standing desk thing. I haven’t tried it. Seems like it would be tiring.
But before you click play on the video, be prepared for some truly shocking footage as Kevin, the dude played by Hemsworth, appears to be somewhat less than competent at his job as a buff, hunky administrative assistant wearing somewhat tight clothing at Lady Ghostbusters Inc, specifically when it comes to answering phones, getting coffee, graphic design, and knowing what the company he works for actually does.
It’s a terrible fall from grace for Hemsworth, who has previously played roles as a buff, hunky dude in tight clothing, only he’s like cool and stuff. I think he was Superman, maybe? Man-Spider? The Batsman?
I’m not really up on that stuff.
In any case, men everywhere are protesting this terrible insult to their gender. And by “everywhere” I mean in the comments on YouTube, which are generally thought to be representative of sophisticated male opinion worldwide.
“This movie needs to fail hard so this sort of stereotyping can die,” says wonderboy2402, widely considered to be the wisest of all in the wonderboy2400 series.
“I though this movie was about equality,” ossander ken added.
Actually, just FYI, the movie as I understand it is about a team of ghost containment specialists — ghost “busters,” if you will — tasked with “busting” numerous ghosts in a short period of time. Maybe you’re thinking of Suffragette?
ohnjohnson, meanwhile, asks the question that is on everyone’s mind:
So, the only reason they keep him around is because he is hot. How is that not sexist or mysogonistic or just stupidity.
How is that not!?
George Hernandez also raises an important question:
So make the only main male role in the film a dumb air head but we say the film isn’t funny and we’re the sexist? That’s some bullshit
“I didn’t care about this film but seeing this made me mad anyways,” HandsomePagan reported.
Patrick Laceholder, already struggling with a not-very manly last name, lamented
It feels like these people who usually work on R-rated films are trying to appeal to the dumbass crowds so they throw in the awkward American hollywood humour and think it’ll work.
It is indeed shocking to see American hollywood humor used in this way in an American hollywood comedy film.
Stanley13579 was simultaneously concerned for Hemsworth and mad at him:
Chris Hemsworth deserves better. I hope he’s at least getting a fat paycheck for being a tool to help Sony sell their cynical product.
“MUH DIVERSITIES” added KarmaAce00.
michael white offers a different sort of critique:
Oh and P.S. Drinking coffee like she did after he drank out of it then kinda spit into it is by no means sexy or funny.. It’s fucking disgusting..?
Actually, I have to take a teensy bit of an issue with this. While not sexy — I’m not sure why it would need to be? — it actually was sort of funny. Maybe even more than sort of funny.
OK OK OK I confess. I thought the whole thing was funny. The original trailer was a bit of a letdown for me, but this is giving me more hope that the movie will actually be worthy of its great cast.
Angry dudes: I’m not sure how you’ve managed to miss this, but comedy regularly involves comedians and comic actors deliberately making themselves look like idiots.
Sometimes it involves men making themselves look like idiots.
Sometimes it involves women making themselves look like idiots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llnKogJtpT4
Sometimes both men and women:
Sometimes comedy plays with stereotypes and is funny. Sometimes it just reinforces stereotypes and while this is often not so great, comedically or otherwise, sometimes it can actually be funny too.
For comedic actors, the best roles are often the ones in which they make themselves look like the biggest idiots. Who was the most idiotic character on I Love Lucy? (HINT: Her name is in the title.) Who was the star in I Love Lucy? (HINT: Her name is also in the title. Because it’s the same person.)
Anyway, dudes, relax just a teensy weensy bit. Men are so overrepresented in movies these days, as protagonists and as supporting characters, that it’s still kind of seen as a big deal if two women characters in a feature film have even a single scene in which they actually talk to one another about anything other than a man. And lots of movies fail that seemingly rudimentary test.
And so, if you can’t stand Chris Hemsworth taking a comedic turn as an inept administrative assistant, if the very thought of it makes you mad or sad, it’s possible that your head is so far up your own ass that, well, I mean, that can’t be very enjoyable, your head up in there. It’s sort of disgusting to think about, really.
Anyway, angry Ghostbusters-hating dudes, if you’re concerned about people thinking men are a bunch of ridiculous idiots, one excellent way to fight this perception is to STOP ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF RIDICULOUS IDIOTS.
Or not, I mean, I find you guys entertaining. I mean, not Flight-of-the-Conchords-level entertaining, but not bad.
The only thing about the Ghostbusters clip that really bugs me is that Sony decided to release it on Administrative Professionals Day. And that’s really kind of patronizing as hell. If most film heroes were Administrative Professionals that would be one thing, but this, not so cool.
But that’s a reflection on Sony’s marketing department, not on the film itself, which I’m sort of starting to actually look forward to again.
H/T — Thanks to @jamesjdominguez for bringing this to my attention!
At least this film will be a comfort to the men who told me that they could never be hired for a job like mine, since apparently hiring in admin is restricted to pretty women. Don’t worry your sweet little heads, boys! Admin jobs are now open to pretty men, too!
Edit: This post has filled me with secretary rage, if that’s not obvious. I’m a rageatary.
Well, you obviously couldn’t do it anyway, given your femaleness. Not openly anyway. You would need a charismatic young frontman to make the blog look like a cooties-free place for studly bachelors on the town.
I’ll be waiting for your call.
@Scildfreja,
It has been done in the past but didn’t turn out well. I don’t know if the site is still running but it was called,’The Good Men Project.’
Well that was a nicely timed trailer, just watched it while nibbling a perfect megacookie slice. And manosphere tears moistened the cookie even better. Mmmm, maple syrup, chocolate, pecan nuts and salty bits.
Re: feminist-run blog that focuses on men’s issues — I believe at one point there was something titled along the lines of “no, really, what about the men” or so.
@ scildfreja
You know it wouldn’t be that hard to put together a small website dealing with the semi legitimate men’s right talking points. They’ve already been covered loads of times by people on this site already anyway.
Let’s think, the topics usually are:
Men being the main victims of violence – I could deal with that (as it’s mainly men who commit the violence and that’s sort of my forte)
The draft (not an issue now)
Men’s mental health issues (already bodies dealing with that, just need to link)
Family court stuff (again, I could probably cover that, at least from the English perspective)
Steroid abuse (I could do that too. Don’t have any personal experience, I’d rather do meth, but it is something I know a bit about)
Any other topics?
ETA: Ninja’d by pitshade.
Just watched the clip. How could these idiot menzers miss the boob joke at the end?
Oh yeah, that’s right. Anything that makes women look ridiculous is fine and dandy. Especially if huge gazongas are involved.
:O
I didn’t expect people to take me seriously!
I took a look at the Good Men Project, it looks like it’s trying pretty hard – not sure how much traction it’s getting. I think part of that is due to the fact that it doesn’t deal as much with current events, like this blog does – or like WWTH’s comment did above. That sort of humorous, timely, characterful atmosphere that WHTM does so well seems vital in pulling people into a community. Or am I mis-reading it?
It sounds like a fun group project anyways 😮
Cw rape apologetics
Haven’t looked in on the Good Men Project since they shared a post, maybe 3 years ago, from a confessed rapist talking about how it was impossible to avoid a little rape if you were into drunken/high casual hookups. They followed that up with a defense of both the decision to publish the post and the rapist himself. I’m surprised the site is still active.
So, I don’t know how they’ve been doing lately, but the Good Men Project has had issues with rape apologia in the past: http://www.salon.com/2012/12/13/the_good_men_project_is_being_awfully_sympathetic_to_rapists/
Ew. I rescind my praise.
So, would they be just as upset if a woman were in that position? I mean, they’re making such a big deal out of this! If it were a woman as the airheaded secretary, they’d have no problem with it!
See, we can do that too! 😉
@Alan
Male suicide rates and stigma against stay at home dads come to mind.
@Thiazin red
I feel the same, but it’s more that I tend to be more drawn to personalities than looks, and before this I didn’t care much for the personalities of the characters he played. This one is adorkable.
I quite like this character. The fact that entitled brats are crying about him makes this even better.
@ScildFreja
There are some genuinely alright places on the web that talk bout men’s issues. One other site that i can think of is menslib on reddit. But you should still start that blog because more genuine non-toxic discussions about men’s issues are still sorely needed. Plus, i would really love to see you talking about these issues. I always enjoy reading your posts.
While we’re on the subject, can anyone tell me about other good sites that talk about men’s issues?
Re: GMP, that was what I meant by not turning out well. I tend to understate things, sorry about that.
@ Skiriki,
That was Ozy Frantz’ blog, briefly hosted by GMP but split after the rape apologetics. The blog ended and I think got deleted after some sort of fight? on Tumblr.
@makroth,
You might check out Doctor Nerdlove, he focuses mostly on relationship issues but there are articles specifically about emotional health. Many of the regular commenters are good as well.
*gasp* What’s this? What’s this?! Double standards everywhere!
What’s this? What’s this?! If we don’t like it it’s not funny, but you’re totally a humourless c**t!
… okay that may have stopped fitting in with my chosen tune on that second line.
Also, youtube comment spelling is lovely to behold. I’m just going to modify that first one a bit and start calling people mysogginesstic
The original Ghostbusters films were silly comedies. The new Ghostbusters film is a silly comedy. Did the MRA’s miss this somehow? They must have so much free time on their hands if this is what they spend their days getting worked up about.
pitshade:
Oh fudge, IIRC it was pretty good for that kind of thing, sad to hear that things didn’t work out 🙁
Considering Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music (‘He’s So Fine’ by the Chiffons v. ‘My Sweet Lord’ by George Harrison), McCartney would have reasonably personal experience with how that can go.
Scildfreja, I’ve been thinking about something similar for a while too. If you ever put it together, I’ll definitely read it.
Isn’t being vaguely dumb but charming kind of Chris Hemworth’s type anyway? I mean he’s not that dumb as Thor but just in general I don’t think most of his roles give off that much of an aura of intelligence.
Is it possible that all these anti-diversity people are just constantly misspelling ‘diverticulitis’?
(The symptoms include but are not limited to: abdominal pain, cramping, constipation, diarrhea, and rectal bleeding. Explains all the butthurt!)
Word. I’ll second this.
The shirt, too. And the awkwardness. Now he can compete with Loki in my book.
Hey now, hey now, Lucy wasn’t ‘idiotic,’ just imaginative and ambitious and a little lacking in judgement (or genre-awareness). Lucy was the best.
My Scottish boyfriend doesn’t even know what I Love Lucy is, and I think that’s a shame.
Not really a fan of I Love Lucy myself, but that’s because I spent so much of a lot of episodes feeling so embarrassed on her behalf that I couldn’t enjoy them.
There’s a lot of that sort of ’embarrassment humour’ that mostly just gets a wince reaction from me.
*checks*
This is a perfect place to mention Mr. Bean, right?