What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

jezi-belle:

vistakai:

People keep saying, “what if men did what you did to ghostbusters but the other way around!!!!!” but 1) You can’t. There isn’t one major blockbuster from the past 30 years with enough girls to do that with, and 2) Don’t assume that I wouldn’t completely support an all male cheetah girls reboot

The thing is, any time a movie cast is all women, it’s About Them Being Women. Their womanhood is central to the plot. You can’t swap them out with men because the plot falls apart. An all female cast is always, first and foremost, a group of women. An all male cast is a group of con artists or scientists or pilots or paranormal investigators or lawyers – their personalities drive the plot, not the fact that they’re men. So that’s WHY you can take most all male casts and make them all female without changing the story much. Because men are seen as the default while women are a special separate category.

(via captainlordauditor)

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