therearecertainshadesoflimelight:
I haven’t had much to say about the Ghostbusters reboot other than I love the costuming and I’m going to see it twice.
I have to say what’s in my black fat girl feelings right now.
I’m a little surprised that throughout all the discussions about the reboot and the sexism that no-one has spotlighted how the entertainment industry’s beauty standards and the male gaze plays into the Ghostbusters reboot mess?
They’re not only mad because it’s women. They’re mad about not being able to jerk it to The New Ghostbusters lineup. They’re mad because their expectations of getting at least one hypersexualized, female protagonist wasn’t met– not even one sexy secretary. That’s rough, buddy.
Let’s be oh so real here: if it were Megan Fox, Zooey Deschanel, Cameron Diaz, and Jennifer Lawrence in the Ghostbusters reboot, we wouldn’t be having as much of a problem. McCarthy, Wiig, Jones and McKinnon in this movie are not funny-hot, like Cameron Diaz dorky dancing in a pair of underoos in Charlie’s Angels. They’re just funny and serving you soft-butch, wild-butch, nerd-chic and (albeit a little too stereotypical) cut-a-bitch realness and it’s a problem for these assholes.
This Ghostbusters reaction falls into the same category as men who treat women poorly simply because they don’t find them attractive/fuckable/worth their time.
This is so on point.
This plus the fact that the closest we get to a “sexy” character is McKinnon’s character. But it’s “sexy” specifically in a way that is meant to appeal to queer women and not men.
So when the movie does dress up one of its characters in the sexy role, it’s not doing it for the boys, it’s doing it for the girls. It’s basically one big apology to every not hot and/or not straight nerd girl who loved watching nerdy adventure movies but never got the bones thrown to them by those movies that the boys did. To the girls who were told “you’re only going to be in a movie like this if you’re hot and willing to be fucked by dudes.”
Basically it’s a movie that flat out refuses to cater to men in any way shape or form and IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY.
This is factually incorrect on one key point (but otherwise totally on). They did get a sexy secretary, whose entire role is explicitly to be eye candy.. They’re just not satisfied with it for some reason.
(via dannydeviitoscummies)
