![]() ![]() Not only in creativity, from what we’ve seen of games, comics and other media that take this route, usually ending up being bland and boring, but also from a financial point of view. The problem with ideological ego stroking is that it is hollow. From ever male character being either a slimeball, idiot or asshole, to flat out killing Bill Murray’s character, to defeating an enemy with a shot to the dick, it seems like the film was written as if it had something to prove. ![]() Which, when you consider the defense of the film often ignores female critics and whitewashes all criticism of the film to being men, that argument might seem more legit. Nevermind that Ghostbusters was inherently ideologically biased, to the point where some are saying the film is outright hostile toward men. For all the frantic defense of this film, it flopped because the people who defended it weren’t invested in the film’s success, just the appearance of being morally superior and progressive. Which resulted in the creator, and other people involved with the film, slamming fans and overall producing negative publicity. Ghostbusters was made with the almost rabid desire for ‘girl power’. Every character seemed to revolve around pointing out that the new Thor was a woman. Odin became a misogynist asshole who has never been displayed as such prior. Titania, Creel’s WIFE refuses to fight FemThor because they’re both women, despite Titania never having this compunction before and despite the fact that FemThor just punched out her hubby. Crusher Creel became a blatant misogynist and critic proxy. And immediately characters began to revolve around the feminist, female Thor narrative. She didn’t have his star power and pre-established mythos, meaning that Linkle was, for all intents and purposes, useless for their own ego stroking.Ī new Thor showed up, who was a woman. ![]() The reason Linkle was so ill received by the people whining about wanting a female Link is because Linkle wasn’t Link. And in the process they usually fall head first into the pitfall of writing a character based on what they are rather than who they are and/or write the character and story centering around the change. They’d rather convert somebody else, like Thor or Link, into a woman to get a cheap pat on the back and to feel progressive. They don’t want to work at earning a fanbase or putting in the hard work to make that character succeed. People want to change characters to be women, another race, whatever, because they’re lazy and don’t want to put out a new character and risk it failing. ![]()
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