thatgirlwithanopinion:

Here’s the trailer for the Ghostbuster’s movie, right? So, it’s been out since March 3rd of this year and has since gained almost 31,500,000 views and almost 770,800 dislikes. It’s safe to say, most people hate it, it’s the most disliked movie trailer in the history of YouTube. Feminists attribute this to the overwhelming misogyny of the internet and believe that it’s just all the men that make up the fan base hating it simply because it has women in it.

Now here’s the trailer for the newest Call of Duty game, Infinite Warfare. It’s only been out since since May 2nd and already has almost 14,800,000 views and almost 1,400,000 dislikes. That almost double the amount of dislikes the Ghostbusters trailer has, and it’s only been out a week, compared to the Ghostbusters’ 2 months of being on the internet. It’s safe to say, the overwhelming majority of people who saw the trailer, hated it.

So where am I going with this? There’s no one coming out of the woodwork attributing this to misandrist women who hate to see a game full of men, or trying to show some political correlation with why the Call of Duty game is hated so much. Because we all know why: the trailer is terrible, and it’s just fans of a series showing that they hate the direction the developers are going in with a game they love. No ifs, ands or buts about it. So why is the Ghostbusters trailer being used to push the feminist agenda? It pales in comparison to the hate the Call of Duty one is getting.

There’s no “blatant sexism”, no “misogyny”, and no hate simply because the main characters are female. The Ghostbusters trailer is just flat out terrible. And, just like with Call of Duty, the fans of the original Ghostbusters hate the direction this new one is going in. It’s not funny, it doesn’t look as cool as the original and it wreaks of “agenda pushing”. Fans, especially in “geek culture” are very vocal when something they love is being abused. Don’t try to speak for them with a feminist lens on and call them all sexist and misogynist. How many of those people who disliked the video were women? All you see is that a lot of people disliked a movie with an all female cast, and assume “well, I believe mostly men watched the original, so the people who hate the new one must all be men!” All you have to go on are numbers, yet so many people are convinced that the reason people dislike the Ghostbusters trailer is because they’re all woman-hating men beyond the shadow of a doubt.

I’m probably going out on a limb here, but by that logic, all the people who hate the Call of Duty trailer must be all man-hating women.

