- January 21st, 2019, 1:55 pm#4912610
Let's get one thing out of the way. There ARE sexist GB fans. We've all probably seen at least one. But they do not represent anything more than a small minority of fans. I'm doing this on mobile so I won't link to any of the articles, but in light of the recent GB3 announcement there have been more than a few popping up that have seething opinions about us as a fandom. One was by Scott Mendelson of Forbes.com, Article titled something like "We are Getting a Ghostbusters 3 and Its all YOUR fault"(no joke) other have been Tweets by respected critics like Matt Zoller Seitz. They all call Gb fans "toxic" and "GhostBros". They do not write about a difference between those who had valid critiques of GB16 and those who loathed it out of sexist ideals. It's not right.
Some fans on here have experienced the sexism first hand, others have not. But it's not representative of this fandom. All fandoms have racist, sexist and all sorts of vile non sense, but with Ghostbusters, it's somehow different. Some of us(not me) do great work. Dressing up for Charities, visiting sick kids in the hospital, making fan films just for the fun of it. That's the true spirit of this fandom, not the small portion that yelled the loudest in 2016. And yet we are all forever tainted by those few. It's not right.
As a male who did not at all enjoy GB16(and I do not want this thread to be about that. There are other places to hash that out), I feel a sense of guilt everytime this "GhostBros" term is thrown about. I had my own reasons for not enjoying the film, none of them were sexist, and yet I feel a bit guilty as a GB fan. Everytime I've said something against the reboot, I think the automatic reaction by anybody reading is to assume I'm a sexist pig, so I have to go out if my way to say that "No that's not what I'm about". It's not right.
A 3rd Ghostbusters film is finally getting made. That's cause to rejoice! Go to google and type in "Ghostbusters 3" and you'll see that the media isn't rejoicing. They are blaming the sexist pigs. Once again Ghostbusters makes the news, once again any non fan reading those articles assumes the worst in all of us. That's what we are to these people. They look past the charity, the love and the kindness in our fandom and see what they want to see. The ugly and vile. It's not right.
I wonder if Sony and the Reitman's are reading these articles online and doing some behind the scenes course correcting to appease these film bloggers(most of whom I respect and read regularly). I mean, if this film is anything less than great it is just going to get crucified by these same bloggers. It would only be natural. Let's face it, they'd be going in to the movie with their knives sharpened. Jason Reitman himself is getting criticized for doing this movie & that's not right.
Some fans on here have experienced the sexism first hand, others have not. But it's not representative of this fandom. All fandoms have racist, sexist and all sorts of vile non sense, but with Ghostbusters, it's somehow different. Some of us(not me) do great work. Dressing up for Charities, visiting sick kids in the hospital, making fan films just for the fun of it. That's the true spirit of this fandom, not the small portion that yelled the loudest in 2016. And yet we are all forever tainted by those few. It's not right.
As a male who did not at all enjoy GB16(and I do not want this thread to be about that. There are other places to hash that out), I feel a sense of guilt everytime this "GhostBros" term is thrown about. I had my own reasons for not enjoying the film, none of them were sexist, and yet I feel a bit guilty as a GB fan. Everytime I've said something against the reboot, I think the automatic reaction by anybody reading is to assume I'm a sexist pig, so I have to go out if my way to say that "No that's not what I'm about". It's not right.
A 3rd Ghostbusters film is finally getting made. That's cause to rejoice! Go to google and type in "Ghostbusters 3" and you'll see that the media isn't rejoicing. They are blaming the sexist pigs. Once again Ghostbusters makes the news, once again any non fan reading those articles assumes the worst in all of us. That's what we are to these people. They look past the charity, the love and the kindness in our fandom and see what they want to see. The ugly and vile. It's not right.
I wonder if Sony and the Reitman's are reading these articles online and doing some behind the scenes course correcting to appease these film bloggers(most of whom I respect and read regularly). I mean, if this film is anything less than great it is just going to get crucified by these same bloggers. It would only be natural. Let's face it, they'd be going in to the movie with their knives sharpened. Jason Reitman himself is getting criticized for doing this movie & that's not right.