Oswalt was a dick, the "non-news" that this is has generated quite a bit of controversy and criticism from both twitter and many sites across the internet, and Rolfe has basically said nothing offensive in this video.
Key:
MF=radical feminist/marketing department/grieving Patton Oswalt/etc.
F=feminist
M=misogynist
N=not related to gender politics/critical of GB reboot
I guess sometimes group F will refuse to admit that group MF, whose agenda (sort of) aligns with group F's, can be horrible to people in group N because they hold opinions that happen to align with the opinion's of some people they find disagreeable in group M.
Oh, but of course anyone in group N is really in group M and just refuses to admit it. Or maybe we should just flail about group M's existence in an attempt to cover for group MF (for some reason). Perhaps vaguely criticize person in group N's character or try to implicitly justify how they deserved the attacks from group MF because their vocalization of distaste/disinterest are suspect (even though everyone pretty much agrees that it's non-news and deserves nary a second glance). Maybe we should just downplay the scope of the general criticism of those clearly in group N. etc. etc.
Whatever we do, however, we shouldn't at any point admit that there is a CLEAR political angle in the film's marketing that happens to have great synergy with liberal (read: all) media's tendency to overreact to things, potentially but not definitively highlighting an exploit that exists in literally every political movement.
I'll add the disclaimer of saying that I realize hundreds of youtube videos are made for misogynist types every week that say incredibly mean things about youtube feminists just trying to make relatively inoffensive videos about feminism. Shit isn't cool either.
Let's be honest here:
Misogynists don't like this reboot because the film features women front and center in place of what used to be men.
Diehards don't like it because it's poorly timed and looks like it shits all over the franchise.
People who are tired of shitty reboots don't like it, and I'd argue that their general dissatisfication with the excessive number of reboots was starting to reach a fever pitch (I know it was for me).
Regular people don't like this reboot because the trailer looks shit.
People who don't like cynical and lazy writing don't like this reboot for obvious reasons.
Trolls LOVE this reboot for other obvious reasons.
People who wouldn't have otherwise cared don't like it because they noticed the dirt kicked up by everyone else, came to see what the fuss was all about, saw the trailer and said "yeah, that looks shit".
There's also the momentum factor, people notice the massive amount of dislikes, suddenly start to look at the thing critically or would just like to contribute to history in the making, and hit the dislike bar.
Is some of this blowback from bad PR and comments made by the director. Probably. Is there an unfortunate concentration of MRA types homing in on this trailer because they're so ineffectual that this is the best they can do? Also probably. Is there potentially a subtle degree of misogyny behind a lot of those dislike fueled by the current political climate pushing them out of their comfort zone? Potentially.
Point is, I'd like to think people on this site from both ends of the political spectrum can acknowledge that this situation is more complicated than "society hates women" or "this trailer looks shit".
Sorry, this sort of just became rambling.
