Age 35

[ericadawn16]

A month or two ago, I mentioned to someone about a study where people tend to hate things after 35 which explained the anger towards the female Ghostbusters and such...

It turns out I remembered it all wrong. It wasn't a study. It was Douglas Adams. It's still true though, just put kickass females in place of technologies:

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

Comments

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on whether the film/TV show in question is supposed to be a male dominion and also, frankly, on whether the women in question are young and "hot." If the Ghostbusters were played by Megan Fox and Scarlet Johansson, I don't think the reaction would be the same from the straight male section of the populace.

Now, there are also those who are criticizing it on purely artistic grounds and that's entirely legitimate.


Gabrielle