Ghostbusters 'Queerbaiting'

The article linked below from Screen Rant accuses the new Ghostbusters film of "queerbaiting," by which they mean the film "appears to want to imply romantic tension between the two [same sex] characters, but it doesn't want to commit to following that story through." (It's a female character, Phoebe, played by Mckenna Grace, but I would argue still relevant to boysexual issues. If this kind of very mainstream movie is shy about a girl-girl romance, it would likely be even more shy about boy-boy, not to mention man-boy. Plus I think Mckenna, especially a couple years younger in the previous film, would make a pretty cute boy. One of my BL friends seems quite obsessed with her, though I admit he seems to have decided that the solution to being on the registry is to date transboys, who are certainly much more likely to look 12 at 18 than cis boys are.) In watching the film, I definitely felt they were trying to get diversity points for a gay relationship without being definitive enough to get slammed on Fox. On the other hand, at 15 (her more-or-less convincing character age -- Mckenna herself is 17), Phoebe is entitled to be uncertain about her sexuality, isn't she? I was still fighting the idea of being gay at that age, and I don't think the terms "pedo" or "boylover" had even entered my mind. Back on the boylove relevance issue: it does seem like these days all the movies that would have been about teen boys 25 or 50 years ago are now about teen girls. This is frustrating. But besides this being a kind of payback for how obsessed movies once were with teen boys, it's notable that the girls in these movies are almost always portrayed as total tomboys. The films are usually just the same boy-comes-of-age tales with a boyish girl in the starring role. I am a bit surprised feminists don't -- or maybe they do -- complain that these films make no effort to deal with any of the issues unique to actual young females. (I can't leave the topic of this film without mourning the damage the puberty monster has wreaked on Finn Wolfhard, now 21, on whom I hopelessly crushed a few years ago. He gets little screen time in Frozen Empire, and what time he was given was painful to watch.) hugzu ;-p (https site) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Carries Over A Disappointing Diversity Problem From The 2016 Reboot (Screen Rant) [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst]