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The Traveller has come! What did you do, Joanna?!

Fighting In The War Room , a podcast I like, has done it again.  Previously , I used them as a foil to rant against an irrational obsession with Girl Power when critiquing pop culture. Their consensus, at that time, was that we should cheer the work of female directors even when their work is not so great . Why? Because there aren’t enough female directors (by some weighted model) so any movie directed by someone identifying as female is a definitive Good based on that criteria alone. Ugh. This time, the topic was the Ghostbusters all-female cast and the offender was the onliest Joanna Robinson of Vanity Fair .  Joanna -- who didn't seem to like the movie at all -- expressed concern that the failure of this property would undermine support for genre movies with an all female cast. So, even though she says it’s not a good movie, she advised  audiences to “Go see it!” Now, before I say anything else, I haven’t seen the movie. For all I know, I’ll love it when I rent it on Redbox