Inclusiveness and creativity....

[montieth]

There's a meme going around that lauds the new gender bending Ghost Buster's movie as something for little girls to look up to (for heroic inspiration) and that is not for white guys, because apparently they've had the original and 2 subsequent sequels. The takeaway is that little girls can't look at the original characters and find them something

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[calico]

i dig this and agree. its why i don't thing i go out to the movies as much as i once did.

[headnoises]

I think there's a difference between a retelling/imagining (usually in a different context) and the currently popular "we'll change the characters like widgets" approach; the former is all about exploring facets of the story, the other is a check-list