So, in your mind announcing an all male ghostbusters is sexist while an all female ghostbusters is not?hooblabla6262 said:I hope this movie has success, if only for the increased likelihood that movie studios take more chances like this.
Though I honestly doubt that it will do that good.
I also don't think that an all female cast is sexist, cause that doesn't make any sense. The movie could end up being sexist, but that kind of seems unlikely.
What I do find a little sexist is the announcement of an all male Ghostbusters. Kind of undermines the whole thing.
The thing about using the Ghostbusters license is that people have an expectation when they see the name "Ghostbusters": a few people fighting ghosts, dealing with issues/relationships, and being funny for the most part. With that expectation in mind, people will watch it, and if that expectation is met, people who listen to them (friends and effective audience alike) will watch it.leviadragon99 said:If it's a good movie it will be a good movie.
If it's a bad movie it will be a bad movie.
Now granted, having a few more good movies with women comprising the central cast certainly wouldn't be a bad thing and on the flipside, such movies could be made without the Ghostbusters license being used, but it really does come down to something that simple.
It just sort of undermines the whole point of having an all-female ghostbusters.Lightknight said:So, in your mind announcing an all male ghostbusters is sexist while an all female ghostbusters is not?hooblabla6262 said:I hope this movie has success, if only for the increased likelihood that movie studios take more chances like this.
Though I honestly doubt that it will do that good.
I also don't think that an all female cast is sexist, cause that doesn't make any sense. The movie could end up being sexist, but that kind of seems unlikely.
What I do find a little sexist is the announcement of an all male Ghostbusters. Kind of undermines the whole thing.
Holy double standards batman.
Don't be sorry. There's always some jackass who thinks people do things for ulterior motives and for no other possible reason whatsoever. Let them be jackassess because someone in the world has to be, else how could we even define the term "jackass"?Chris Pranger said:I'm sorry, I just get so damned steamed about this sort of nonsense. We're at the end of the show, we've tried to have fun since we CAN'T make a living off of this, and we're STILL trying to explain the concept of the show to people. After 4 years! And we're still going over the basic crap about what our show's tone, premise, and style is! That just makes me so depressed. -_-
To be fair, if having an all male cast somehow undermines the all female cast, it kinda makes it feel as if the all female version was made just to capitalize on the social political hype of showcasing women. Which cheapens it considering how big of a deal they're making about the fact that it's an all female cast rather than a Ghostbusters movie.hooblabla6262 said:It just sort of undermines the whole point of having an all-female ghostbusters.Lightknight said:So, in your mind announcing an all male ghostbusters is sexist while an all female ghostbusters is not?hooblabla6262 said:I hope this movie has success, if only for the increased likelihood that movie studios take more chances like this.
Though I honestly doubt that it will do that good.
I also don't think that an all female cast is sexist, cause that doesn't make any sense. The movie could end up being sexist, but that kind of seems unlikely.
What I do find a little sexist is the announcement of an all male Ghostbusters. Kind of undermines the whole thing.
Holy double standards batman.
Like "hey guys we got this new idea for ghostbusters but don't think it's actually going to work, so here's the REAL ghostbusters as well!"
Get what I'm getting at?
It does, you only have to see all the people screaming sexism when they get an all female cast or any character genderswapped. When people make plain remakes not changing the gender they make no fuss about it. Only that it's a repetition of the same and not really providing anything new. Which can be exactly the same here, though one would need to watch the film to know, which will air in 2016, so let's wait..make a point about sexism by getting an idea of how society would treat the situation differently if the people were a different gender
I probably ought not to guess about the motivations of people I don't know, but as a general rule, I would say it's an attempt to claim some kind of high ground. Since clickbait is by definition a manipulative and therefore at least collaterally dishonest thing, accusing someone of making clickbait grants the accuser a kind of moral authority as an aggrieved victim trying to defend himself from the horrible men tricking him into watching videos about how much difference a uterus makes in whether an actor can pretend to shoot lasers at ghosts while cracking jokes.Chris Pranger said:I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but why is it that if a topic is relevant, it's us going for clickbait?
Er...you do know the definition of sexism has nothing to do with explicit references to a person's generative organs and secondary sexual characteristics, right? It's defined as attitudes or behaviors based on traditional stereotypes of sexual roles. So when you say one sex can accurately be stereotyped as less funny, that's the dictionary definition of sexism.tzimize said:I'm sorry guys, but in general women are just not funny. And that's not a sexist thing to say, I just don't find them very funny. It has nothing to do with their boobs and vaginas, but all to do with their sense of humor.
It's only sexist if you insist on applying the same standards in a white room without regard for social context. In an industry where the Bechdel Test is a very accurate observation, creating a movie with four female leads is less inherently sexist (though what do I know about the creative team's minds; maybe they're doing it because they think women are better than men and should rule us all in a tyrannical gynarchy in which upon puberty every man is milked for semen to propagate the species and then is ritually castrated, for all I know) than it is an attempt to correct a depressingly childish evil. When that same industry then rushes to reassure an audience that feels outraged and threatened by a comedy starring four people who each own and operate their own personal vagina, that's a lot harder to pass off as anything but sexist.Lightknight said:So, in your mind announcing an all-male Ghostbusters is sexist while an all-female Ghostbusters is not?hooblabla6262 said:What I do find a little sexist is the announcement of an all-male Ghostbusters. Kind of undermines the whole thing.
Holy double standards Batman.