Here’s the trailer for the Ghostbuster’s movie, right? So, it’s been out since March 3rd of this year and has since gained almost 31,500,000 views and almost 770,800 dislikes. It’s safe to say, most people hate it, it’s the most disliked movie trailer in the history of YouTube. Feminists attribute this to the overwhelming misogyny of the internet and believe that it’s just all the men that make up the fan base hating it simply because it has women in it.
Now here’s the trailer for the newest Call of Duty game, Infinite Warfare. It’s only been out since since May 2nd and already has almost 14,800,000 views and almost 1,400,000 dislikes. That almost double the amount of dislikes the Ghostbusters trailer has, and it’s only been out a week, compared to the Ghostbusters’ 2 months of being on the internet. It’s safe to say, the overwhelming majority of people who saw the trailer, hated it.
So where am I going with this? There’s no one coming out of the woodwork attributing this to misandrist women who hate to see a game full of men, or trying to show some political correlation with why the Call of Duty game is hated so much. Because we all know why: the trailer is terrible, and it’s just fans of a series showing that they hate the direction the developers are going in with a game they love. No ifs, ands or buts about it. So why is the Ghostbusters trailer being used to push the feminist agenda? It pales in comparison to the hate the Call of Duty one is getting.
There’s no “blatant sexism”, no “misogyny”, and no hate simply because the main characters are female. The Ghostbusters trailer is just flat out terrible. And, just like with Call of Duty, the fans of the original Ghostbusters hate the direction this new one is going in. It’s not funny, it doesn’t look as cool as the original and it wreaks of “agenda pushing”. Fans, especially in “geek culture” are very vocal when something they love is being abused. Don’t try to speak for them with a feminist lens on and call them all sexist and misogynist. How many of those people who disliked the video were women? All you see is that a lot of people disliked a movie with an all female cast, and assume “well, I believe mostly men watched the original, so the people who hate the new one must all be men!” All you have to go on are numbers, yet so many people are convinced that the reason people dislike the Ghostbusters trailer is because they’re all woman-hating men beyond the shadow of a doubt.
I’m probably going out on a limb here, but by that logic, all the people who hate the Call of Duty trailer must be all man-hating women.
As a female and lover of the classic ghostbusters, the more I saw of the reboot the more angry I got and levels of dread grew.
I don’t hate myself or my own gender, I hate that they’re making a crappy reboot to something that has been a huge part of my childhood and something that every member of my family loved and we enjoyed watching together on road trips (along with some other movies). We practically ruined the VHS tape of Ghostbusters because we loved it so much that we watched it so much that we broke it!
My sisters and mother all are annoyed after they saw a trailer, saying “why does Hollywood always think it’s okay to make lame excuses of cash grabs that ruin an already classic movie?” Not once do any of them cite the female cast, they just see something lazy, unoriginal and not funny. (It also says something when any of them thinks a movie will suck as they all are FAR MORE forgiving than I am towards movie/tv shows flaws)
Both @slagartehfox and @punkrockula are dedicated female fans and yet the defenders of this lazy remake would label them as either internalized misogyny or just ignore their concerns outright because a female hating this rule63 ghostbusters remake doesn’t fit their “if you hate this movie you’re sexist” bullcrap.
(Disregarding how there are so many other movies starring predominantly women that are beloved by so many but HURR DURR THE REASON NO ONE LIKES IT IS BECAUSE MUH SEXISM)
We female fans don’t enjoy you guys writing us off and acting like we don’t exist. We female fans don’t enjoy you ignoring our valid concerns and criticisms and just slapping a sexist label onto any who disagree but not even bothering to hear them out. We female fans don’t enjoy that the only way you can apply to us is creating a lazy story filled with unfunny jokes and stereotypes rather than clever humor and genuine relatable and likeable characters, we don’t enjoy being used as meat shields to hide behind so you can deflect criticism. My gender is not your shield, your ghostbusters are a huge disservice to the franchise and a huge disservice to actual good remakes and a huge disservice to women.
We don’t deserve this lazy bottom of the barrel story telling. We are human beings, treat us like it, and not as tokens you can make a quick buck off of for progressive points.
Uh, I’m a dude.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the movie is terrible, I do love Ghostbusters, and I think the dude in charge is being a sexist PoS that’s using women as meat-shields.
I’m just not a chick.
My apologies, many of my mutuals follow you and for some reason I could of sworn somewhere I read a rant by you on this movie with “as a female fan” but I think I got you mixed up with someone else they probably reblogged, my mistake.
I should of double-checked who it was before tagging, sorry about that.
While we’re on the subject, it really cheeses me how male fans aren’t allowed to have any legitimate criticisms. I’ve seen entire well worded posts detailing every reason they fear the worst and what could of been done instead to make it a good movie even with the very same cast on currently.
Their entire argument ignore because “LOOK ITS A MALE, YOU HATE WOMEN BECAUSE YOU THINK THIS MOVIE WILL BE BAD! LOOK EVERYONE, A MISOGYNIST!!!”
Like geez, that’s like me accusing some chick of racism simply because she isn’t into anime.
Because admitting men can have valid criticisms female characters would break that narrative that we’re all a bunch of violent sexists.
What bugs me the most about the GB reboot is that they’ve easily created a perfect critique proof film.
If it’s a hit, then it’s a hit. If it tanks, everyone can just claim sexisim and misandry and have an easy out. If there are women (like the second poster in this chain) who dislike the movie, I imagine they’ll feel a lot of pressure NOT to say anything bad about it.
This movie can get away scott-free with whatever it wants, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it
My problem with the GB trailer is that it looks more like they’re using women leads as a gimick as opposed to actual representation.