Dead Wild Roses

The new Ghostbusters Movie looks like a lot of fun. What is not so much fun, the overwhelming negative reaction to the trailer mostly by man-babies who have to get their winge on because an all female cast of a rebooted franchise is ruining their lives. But hey, take a look at the trailer and form your own (slightly framed by me) opinion on the upcoming reboot.

There. Now that wasn’t so bad now was it? To my informed readership there could be issues with the dialogue, what is considered funny, how much can one really glean for a trailer – the usual suspects when it comes to evaluating a possible film to watch.

Then there is this dude.  Welcome to Ground Zero of glibly earnest misogyny.  Feel free to stop the vid at any time.  It doesn’t get any better.

The pattern laid out by the douche-nozzle above can be found replicated in the comment section of the movie.  But before we get to that, the we should examine the numbers of the situation.

At the time of this screen capture, 877k of negative votes for this movie.   Similar trends for other movies?

Evidently not, especially note the Adam Sandler, a movie crafted with all the care and attention a drunkard has while taking his mid bender shit of the day.  For this toadstool of a movie, 13k people have rated it negatively.  Yet, how did Ghostbusters earn so many down-votes? Could it be the threat of male-centric media dominance ever so slightly slipping way?  The plaintive wails from thousands of fragile male egos, given an anonymous forum, showing how threatened they are?

Quite possibly.

I shan’t talk about the Green Lantern – its better and more humane that way.

A small sampling of the comment section:

Now before I go on my spiel, I managed to find a comment hidden in this thread that is golden as it encapsulates the phenomena at hand.

Well there you have it.  Problem named.  Male entitlement and the reaction to the threat of not being centre of the media universe, for just one movie.  The amount of push-back over the new Ghostbusters movie is quite staggering, as it is in fact, just one summer movie and unlikely to change the dominant mode of production in Hollywood.

If we put on our sociological glasses and get our hypothesizing boots out we can appreciate the fertile ground the discussion of this movie brings about.  Can we perhaps extrapolate to other venues in society that have been traditional bastions of male power and the backlash that must have been experienced by women trying to change the status quo?

Consider the amount of misogyny present, even in the small sampling presented here (you can go see much much more in actual thread if you’d like) and what does that say about about our society?  I would say that despite all the hurley-burley about social justice warriors and their ilk ruining *everything* that one of the dominant themes in our constructed social existence is the hatred of women.

This hatred of women is a learned generational feature – the commenters on this trailer are of the new ‘enlightened’ generation.  This is scary frakking shite we have here, because without direct attention to the processes that form this toxic hate, nothing will change.  Deprogramming the patriarchal misogyny that cripples men and destroys women must be moved up the priority list (stat!).  We have wasted too many generations on a system that is destroying us.