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With their National Lampoon roots, the team behind the original Ghostbusters included some of the architects of Boomer humor. Today's dads are the people who loved the slobs vs. snobs movie dynamic on display in Animal House and Caddyshack, and vowed to never become the Man. But then they decided they loved Reagan even more. Consequently, Ghostbusters is an overtly Reaganite movie, with its contempt for whiny liberals in government and in the academic ivory tower.The dad jokes have already begun, and if you're not careful you might mistake them for some kind of dangerous misogyny and not what they actually are: the death rattle of a nearly extinct point of view. Ghostbusters was a beacon of conservative thinking in the mostly leftist Hollywood landscape. Its fans are, over the next few weeks, going to say a bunch of things. And the fans with a lot of Twitter followers may well spark some Twitter outrage.Measurements of HotnessI love females. I hope that if they go that way at least they'll be funny, and if they're not funny at least hopefully it'll be sexy.#Ghostbusters reboot with an all female cast. expect half the movie to be complaints they don't get paid as much as the original male cast.
— Mark Smith (@marksmith2307) October 9, 2014
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