The problem with ghostbusters wasn’t that it was an all women reboot.
Yes, it
was. Treating women as a gimmick, and stifling them of their creativity, is a
horribly disgusting way to treat them in the movie industry, or anywhere in general. If you ever have a daughter, will you be willing to tell her to her face that her mere existence is just a gimmick used to promote liberal propaganda and steal men's ideas?
It was how they handled the marketing, which was to attack critics for alleged sexism even though the actual humor in the movie was shit.
Unfortunately, there are still critics of the film who say they're "okay with female Ghostbusters", and
those critics I can definitely say are sexist, because they're supporting the film, and are equally as bad as the feminists who sperg over it.
Generally speaking, if a talented group with passion for the project takes a gender/race swap on, it can work out really well.
No, it cannot. If anything, that makes it
worse, since people end up
praising the project, and thus audiences put up with gender-swapped reboots of stuff instead of supporting well-written, relatable, likable
original female characters such as Hilda. I honestly don't see the problem with creating original female characters, to show that women are just as capable of being as unique as men can be.
Just because you don’t see the inherent value of a African American version of spider man taking place in Brooklyn instead of Queens dealing with a unique set of feelings and expectations(this also being a massive part of Spiderverse to the point that he paints it on the fucking wall) when compared to the original, shows how close minded you are.
Don’t get me wrong, there are bad examples of swaps. Many of them, but to just assume all are bad is the wrong way to look at it
My problem with the film is how it's going to affect how audiences will view female characters in the future. They'll hear about this character - let's call her Melissa Foxheart - who's deeply complex, has a tonne of character, is relatable to everyone who reads about her... and they'll just assume she's a token minority character meant to pander to hard leftists. Why? Because the same thing happens with black characters like Kilometres Eticales, and they hear people praising him for "not pandering", so they assume that any female character who is also "not pandering" is just pandering anyway. And now nobody takes Melissa Foxheart seriously as a result.
That's the state our society is in at the moment - that nobody, whether an SJW or an anti-SJW, is aware that women and blacks are
not one and the same, and it
is possible to write them differently. Even as far back as 1984,
Punky Brewster had a white female protagonist with a token black friend, showing that it can be done. And nowadays we have
Hilda, showing it can
still be done, even in this age of political correctness and diversity pandering. So what's the big problem, then?
Anyway, that's all I have to say for now - if you have any questions, feel free to ask!
