^ Yes.
Categorical BS. I've never ever seen a case where one of these "protected" works like Ghostbusters, Last Jedi, etc... is criticized in a scholarly way (think Red Letter Media's epic essay on Last Jedi) and the critics aren't still merely shrugged off as racist, misogynistic, bigots.
Some people insist that you're just not entitled to dislike a work if it features women or minorities. To dislike is to commit an Orwellian thought-crime.
I didn't like
The Last Jedi and made my thoughts on it well known around the board and I never got accused of being racist or sexist, because none of my criticism revolved around saying racist or sexist things. It's really not rocket science.
Does that mean someone can't occasionally misunderstand or misrepresent someone unfairly? Of course not, but those are the exception, not the rule, and you're trying to make them commonplace when they're not to cover for not having to make any kind of self-reflection on how you represent yourself here.
Perhaps the reason you keep running into these kind of problems is that you're always floating around topics involving racism and sexism and greater inclusiveness in film and TV and making dismissive comments about it like it's not an actual issue, or you throw out buzzwords like PC. And from that people start to make assumptions about where you stand on certain issues, especially when you start having an exceptional amount of opposition to the film or TV show you haven't even seen yet that revolve around its casting of more women and people of color.
I thought the new
Ghostbusters was rather mediocre, but it had nothing to do with it having a gender-swapped cast, and I waited until I had actually seen the damn film before I made that assessment. I was actually looking forward to seeing what Jones, Wiig, and McKinnon could do since I was a fan of theirs from SNL, and McCarthy is good when given the right material, but hey, it wasn't as funny as I'd hoped. It happens, with most comedies in fact.
I didn't consider it a personal affront to my manhood to recast the movie with women, any more than I do when they recast
Guess Who Coming to Dinner? with a black family welcoming home the daughter's white boyfriend instead of the reverse. Why would that bother me?
So you go on pretending that it's all some irrational attack and that your constant negative attitude and dismissiveness don't play any part in the reaction you get, and you're going to continue having the same problems over and over again and wondering why this keeps happening to you.
