Social Justice Warrior

For centuries, confining women to the private sphere was one of the main methods powerful men used to avoid dealing with their fear of women; it's still happening in some parts of the world. In the west, that just doesn't work anymore. Women are much more visible, and so is the negative response towards more women on the screen. While men in society are traditionally seen as humorous, women are traditionally not seen as funny . Especially in a big-budget film like the new Ghostbusters, whose trailer has an overwhelmingly negative response and features an all-female main cast. Popular culture is often a site of struggle between forces of institutional power and authority. Women aren't expected to be funny or the main heroes in big-budget summer …show more content…
(Lenhart) Meaning anindividual promoting socially progressive views, including advocacy for women's rights, identity politics, multiculturalism and civil rights; but to the extreme. The term is considered a negative on the internet and used as a sort of stawman argument. But the question remains: how can this film be pandering towards that crowd? Is it because it features four women in the main roles. Or is it because these four women are the only characters speaking in the trailer? Just because the trailer focused on the women does not mean that it is catering solely to a "SJW" crowd anymore than one of the many Marvel comic book films panders to "Teenage …show more content…
Jones’ character, Patty, is a streetwise MTA worker, while her co-stars play scientists. Patty joins the team after offering her knowledge of the city, as well as her uncle’s hearse to drive. “You guys are really smart about this science stuff, but I know New York,” Patty says. In a response video posted to YouTube, Akilah Hughes called Jones’ character “a minstrel show… the loud, screaming thing in the room.” (Smoothiefreak) And that is a good enough reason to be worried. The glimpses of Patty we see in the trailer are reminiscent of decades of tokenization in cinema, which reduces people of color, and specifically black women, to being portrayed as mammies, “Magical Negroes,” and token black friends. These characters rarely have their own developed narrative arcs or rich inner lives and primarily exist to service the white characters in their quest for fulfillment. While these characters pay lip service to racial inclusion, they are reduced to second-class citizens