{"id":49405,"date":"2015-01-28T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T23:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/on-the-female-ghostbusters-cast.html"},"modified":"2015-01-28T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T23:25:23","slug":"on-the-female-ghostbusters-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/on-the-female-ghostbusters-cast.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Female Ghostbusters Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As long as they&#39;re funny, why the hell not? There&#39;s nothing particularly gender-specific about the roles or the premise. <\/p>\n<p>As far as &quot;pandering,&quot; would it be &quot;pandering&quot; if it were a mixed-gender cast? Would it be &quot;pandering&quot; if it were an all-male cast? Nearly <i>all<\/i> casting is a blend of creative design and gimmickry \/ pandering to some audience demographic or another.<\/p>\n<p>And as for the &quot;Oooh, they&#39;re ugly \/ fat \/ funny-looking&quot; crowd &#8230; yeah, like Murray, Ramis, and Aykroyd were all cut stud-muffins, even thirty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Bah. I&#39;m tempted to see it for no other reason than to tweak the yahoos complaining about it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+The Mary Sue<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mass hysteria!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/ghostbuster-casting-reactions'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/jpAFc_K_FZAAhVo8g2tG6SNWmBQTx7WJUeC1GmC0V_9Sn6SI9tA8JgxebVonp1cSae1ng53q0tYqXUP8wdz4lhxU4TCKMWBGo8u1LyTtfC6xVz7UdVQl_24K02mQns8R6a3O087hht3gNcfIIAsaW_5_fyJ_AQQ=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/ghostbuster-casting-reactions'>The Best and Worst Reactions to Yesterday&rsquo;s Female Ghostbusters Casting News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/TzjAYWWwnbE'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as they&#39;re funny, why the hell not? There&#39;s nothing particularly gender-specific about the roles or the premise. As far as &quot;pandering,&quot; would it be &quot;pandering&quot; if it were a mixed-gender cast? Would it be &quot;pandering&quot; if it were an all-male cast? Nearly all casting is a blend of creative design and gimmickry \/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/on-the-female-ghostbusters-cast.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Female Ghostbusters Cast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133950,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/26\/is-trumps-transgender-military-ban-pandering-or-petulance.html","url_meta":{"origin":49405,"position":0},"title":"Is Trump&#039;s transgender military ban pandering or petulance?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jul-17 11:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because it sure doesn't seem to be based on sound military, medical, or fiscal policy.Money quote:\u275d This would be a military health-care spending increase of 0.04 to 0.13 percent. 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