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The outrage over Ghostbusters began last year when it was announced that the four ghoul hunters in the remake of the goofy and clever 1984 movie would be women. Dudes in the bro-verse went ape.
This piece discusses the plot of the 2016 remake of “Ghostbusters.” I don’t know when it became a truth universally acknowledged in Hollywood that equality for women, people of color and ...
Men were tanking the ratings of shows aimed at women. But this “Ghostbusters” thing? It lays bare so, so much of what we’re investigating when it comes to the provenance and reliability of ...
Perhaps we really are breaking the glass ceiling – of a haunted house. In the Ghostbusters movie, the women are playing women. They are not pretending to be men. It’s not the only new ...
Lee wants you to take a look at how the original 1984 action flick depicted women and if you find anything sexist about it. “The new ‘Ghostbusters’ movie was hit with backlash for its all ...
especially given we already had two male Ghostbusters films. I love funny women and thought it would be an interesting take on the long-dormant franchise. And I was thrilled that the initial ...
Is the fury rooted in Ghostbusters' nostalgic place in cinematic history, a sexist response to the fact that the reboot stars women in the lead roles, or something else altogether? I set out to ...
Within this complex attitude toward women in Reagan’s America, Ghostbusters emerged. Like many, Ghostbusters’ male characters are often constricted by their refusal to understand members of ...
Among the six women critics, the results were almost entirely reversed — 67 percent were positive and 33 percent were negative. If the Rotten Tomatoes results are a guide, Ghostbusters is ...
Look, it's not as though I thought that a woman-led Ghostbusters was going to make the franchise a completely female dominated monolith from here on out—that's unnecessary. It's just ...