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Jul 18, 2016

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It’s not just that the vision of girl power in “Ghostbusters” doesn’t feel particularly empowered to me. What I’m truly angry about is that a decade of vigorous discussion about feminism and mass culture has brought us to a place where the battle lines are so stupidly defined and are drawn in a way that any possible victory isn’t worth claiming.

If ‘Ghostbusters’ is a feminist victory, feminist pop culture is doomed
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Washington Post

Keeping within the confines of tentpole summer movies, it is astonishing that 30 years after the release of “Aliens,” Hollywood can’t create an independent, confident female lead character akin to Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley.

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