Boys will be boys and girls will be Ghostbusters

I got used to being stared at, hit on, made fun of for being short, made fun of for being a hairy Italian girl, made fun of for being a short, hairy Italian girl and having my intelligence automatically underestimated every time I happen to be wearing a semi-tight dress.

I also got used to the fact that it’s not ok for me to cry at work or say I’m in pain if I’m not bleeding from a gaping wound or show any sort of emotional reaction when a logical explanation could be offered.

Ok, whatever to all that nonsense.

What I can’t or maybe I should say, won’t get used to is how freaking mean members of the male population have been in response to every tweet, post or mention I make about the new Ghostbusters reboot.

I do not consider myself a vocal feminist nor do I feel the need to fight for or defend my identity or position of equality as a woman on a constant basis, but hot damn, the heat I’m getting is making me want to put on my feisty pants.

Seriously guys, we are not taking anything away from you. It’s still there — all those memories, those bro moments, the gifs of Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd still will float freely on the interwebs and while I don’t personally want to check for you — I’m fairly certain you still have your penis and your childhood of manhood fully intact.

Heaven forbid we have a film with strong female leads. If you don’t think that Hollywood reuses and abuses recycled scripts with dudes as leads over and over and over again then you need to wake up to reality.

Out of spite — I’d love to see reboots of the Bond franchise, City Slickers and all the other iconically male movies in existence done with gender role reversals just so we can continue this funny little show of watching every guy lose his shit over it.

Women are funny. Women are intelligent. Women are capable of carrying a film. Women are entitled to a cinematic legacy. Women are not asking that all men be thrown into a volcano so that the planet is run by vaginas and only women will star in all films forever more. No. This isn’t an all-girls private Catholic school.

We just want to have fun and play the game too.

So keep your panties on fellas. You can have the original Ghostbusters and us girls can have a new Ghostbusters and the world is not going to implode. Although how much more cool would it be if there was no ‘You’ and no ‘us’ and there was just a ‘we’ have an original and a new?