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Was Ghostbusters an "over correction" because they dared to make them women?
In a word: no.
It's more nuanced than that, but the discussion around such things is now so polarized that it's hard to have a conversation about things like Ghostbusters 2016. It felt like a big bloated pandering, bandwagon-jumping, uninspired mess and then the marketing and ensuing aftermath of it flopping was that if you didn't like it, the problem is with you the viewer and you need to check your privilege, etc. And that's just nonsense.
If the message is the audience must like a movie/TV show simply because of the demographic makeup of the actors/writers/directors, or else it's the audience that has failed, well then I reject that. And so did a lot of the audience going by the ratings and the amount of money made.
Were there misogynist assholes bitching about how it was going to "ruin their childhoods" and other such claptrap because, ew, giiiiirrrls? Of course. But that doesn't mean the toxic liberal scolds out there telling people they must like this IP were not creating another set of problems...it'd be fine if they tried to reboot the much-loved IP with all-women and it failed and if they quietly said, well, that didn't work, what did we (mostly the writers, I think) do wrong here? But that didn't happen. There was lots of blame-shifting and lectures.
I think the problem with Ghostbusters 2016 can be summed up by the shoehorned dance number.
I'm honestly not convinced that these people exist in any real, measurable way. All I remember from that time was people complaining about these woke scolders, but I never encountered a single person who ever even implied that I needed to even watch the movie, let alone like it. That's fucking stupid and not real, sorry.