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Sorry, manbabies, the real problem with the Ghostbusters reboot isn’t misandry but racism

 March 3, 2016
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Oh, wait, wrong ghost movie

Oh, wait, wrong ghost movie

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Today will go down in history as a dark day for manbabykind. For today, the lady Ghostbusters trailer dropped. And there was much wailing and tweeting of tweets.

Let’s take a stroll amongst the wailing manbabies on Twitter, indulging their ridiculous rants.

And then let’s talk about what’s really wrong with the Ghostbusters trailer, which has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with race.

First, the manbabies:

There were those who pulled out the old “my childhood has been raped” nonsense.

You managed to anally rape a large portion of my childhood. ##Ghostbusters

— Michael Stewart (@M_Stewarr) March 3, 2016

So my childhood has been officially raped now… #Ghostbustershttps://t.co/vrQ2jmwDc4

— Dat Dragons Dude (@dragonsfan1988) March 3, 2016

There were those who strenuously insisted that their anger at the female Ghostbusters had nothing whatsoever to do with misogyny, nuh-uh, but was rather a reaction to the trailer’s objective terribleness.

Anyone else not impressed with the new #Ghostbusters trailer? (No feminazi's its not because i hate women)

— Ryan (@DeeTownn) March 3, 2016

That new Ghostbusters trailer. I'm all for gender equality but the bastards have ruined a classic. Absolute blasphemy, the utter cunts

— Dan Murphy (@katmereMUFC) March 3, 2016

There were the fat-shamers, because at no point in history has a fat person ever been funny.

New ghostbusters movie has that annoying white fat lady. Not interested, I'm shitting all over it! #Ghostbusters

— 8BitVillain (@The8BitVillain) March 3, 2016

they ruined ghostbusters with fat females gn

— nigga (@NerdzurK1) March 3, 2016

@voxday gender aside, original Ghostbusters at least weren't fat

— Константин Мокин (@goga002) March 3, 2016

My Ghostbusters have dicks. Long, swinging, dicks. They're also funny. These Ghostbusters have big fat sweaty vaginas and are not funny.

— Matty Almeida (@MattyCat24) March 3, 2016

There were Trump fans:

Woman are not funny. And Melissa is FAT. I hate fat people too. but Donald Trump is an exception. #Ghostbusters

— hashwhitelivesmatter (@easternmney) March 3, 2016

Can #Trump stop the #Ghostbusters release of he's elected president?

— Jae (@jaesex23) March 3, 2016

Hell, there were so many Trump fans that one observer made a helpful Venn diagram:

Venn diagram of guys upset re the Ghostbusters movie and guys living in their mom's basement and voting for Trump. pic.twitter.com/pCMSKvilCE

— Benjamin Dreyer (@BCDreyer) March 3, 2016

There were even a few Knights Who Say Cuck:

new #Ghostbusters makes me want to die sjw cucks

— BIG doNG (@kcD___) March 3, 2016

Some raised the specter of WHITE GENOCIDE:

I'm not watching the new #Ghostbusters movie because I'm not going to support misandrist attacks against men by liberal Hollyweird.

— The Web's Sam Grady (@TheSamGrady) March 3, 2016

The feminazi #Ghostbusters movie is misandrist propaganda from the Hollywood Left who want erase the white male from history. Do NOT watch.

— The Web's Sam Grady (@TheSamGrady) March 3, 2016

Some worried where the evil feminazis would strike next:

I can't believe the feminazis stole Ghostbusters from our childhood. What'll they come for next? Grease??

— jason (@garmonbozia) March 3, 2016

Others offered somewhat less comprehensible critiques:

#Ghostbusters, a new scapegoat for idiot hipster trash and feminazi garbage, fuck this obvious PC toilet fest.

— Rob Grundy (@Officer_Grundy) March 3, 2016

One Tweeter summed up the day on Twitter with a little haiku:

a haiku:
my twitter feed is
Donald Trump & Ghostbusters
always more outrage

— Luke Underwood (@luketunderwood) March 3, 2016

And another Tweeter left us with this existential question:

Who you gonna call? Female #Ghostbusters ? or Male Ghostbusters?

— Cadence Roi (@cleotrav) March 3, 2016

Still another raised the possibility of a second reboot with a rather different cast:

Already working on a new new Ghostbusters that is played entirely by my favorite versions of Kurt Russell from every decade.

— Meme Bison (@hamsandcastle) March 3, 2016

And this guy helped us put it all in perspective:

My family fled a communist country so we could hear white men complain about Ghostbusters on Twitter.

— Greg Santos (@GregorySantos) March 3, 2016

So what happens once we step back from all the manbaby whining, and the jokes about the manbaby whining. and actually watch the trailer? Well, be my guest:

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit underwhelmed.

There are a few funny moments, but the trailer sort of steps on them. It’s hard to tell if this is a terrible trailer for a good film, or if the Ghostbusters reboot will end up being, well, basically a female version of Adam Sandler’s godwful Pixels.

But the really distressing thing that the trailer reveals is that the three white gals in the movie are the scientists, while Leslie Jones’ Patty is relegated — or so it seems from the trailer — to the tired, stereotypical role of sassy black sidekick who may not be educated but who “knows the streets.”

This racial/racist failure has not exactly gone unnoticed; it’s already inspired thinkpieces and polemics on sites ranging from The Root to The Inquisitr, as well as in innumerable Tweets.

The original Ghostbusters, however hallowed it has become, was infamous for a similar racial failure. That movie’s “black ghostbuster,” played by Ernie Hudson, was so forgettable, and so obviously a token, that the designer simply left him off of this recently reworked Ghostbusters poster featuring his three white comrades.

Despite all the complaints by angry manbabies about the gender-swap of the main characters, it may well turn out that the real problem with the film isn’t that it’s too radically different from the original, but rather that it is too similar — at least in its inability to imagine a black character as more than a token or a stereotype.

The one thing that gives me some hope is Jones herself, an amazing comedian who may have been able to transform her character into something more nuanced and less stereotypical than what we see in the trailer.

I guess we’ll see.

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  1. Imaginary Petal says:
    July 27, 2016 at 6:16 am

    @SFHC

    Spot on. Every problem is too small for feminists to be allowed to care about, and there’s no problem too small for MRAs to whine about until the end of time.

    Reply
  2. EJ (The Other One) says:
    July 27, 2016 at 6:50 am

    I’ve become fond of using the line “if you think it’s a small thing then you give way.”

    Reply
  3. Qurora says:
    October 15, 2016 at 4:25 pm

    FYI, Leslie Jones had no problems being the ordinarily one in the group, and even embraced it. So where the racist angle is, I don’t see it. Having all of the characters be scientists wrecks the synergy of the group, as there has to be one person who isn’t a scientist/believer that can come at it from another angle, ground the other three, and who also has other real-world skills.

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  4. Chris says:
    October 17, 2016 at 11:27 am

    “FYI, Leslie Jones had no problems being the ordinarily one in the group, and even embraced it. So where the racist angle is, I don’t see it. Having all of the characters be scientists wrecks the synergy of the group, as there has to be one person who isn’t a scientist/believer that can come at it from another angle, ground the other three, and who also has other real-world skills.”

    No one’s saying there shouldn’t have been an “ordinary” character. What they’re wondering is why the *one* person of color had to be that character.

    Why is this so hard to grasp? I’m seriously asking. I don’t know how much clearer to make it.

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  5. Malitia says:
    October 17, 2016 at 12:08 pm

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