In a strange way, we can thank "Ghostbusters 3" director Jason Reitman - the son of Ivan Reitman, who directed the first two films in the series - for providing us with an opportunity to examine this question.
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Nevertheless, given how that movie has re-entered the news cycle due to controversial remarks by the director of the upcoming "Ghostbusters 3," it is worth examining how - amidst all the hubbub over sexism and right-wing politics surrounding the 2016 movie - the fact that "Ghostbusters: Answer the Call" is actually quite good was lost. There are many reasons why it is tragic for us to not live in a world without sexism, and the fact that "Ghostbusters: Answer the Call" hasn't received its due is far from being foremost among them. It would have just been a light-hearted supernatural action comedy, one that like the original 1984 "Ghostbusters" starred top-name comedians - many of them hailing from "Saturday Night Live" - and would succeed or fail based primarily on whether it was funny, and secondarily on whether it told a good story in a compelling ghost-based fictional universe. Instead the film would have been remembered for either possessing or lacking quality, free from any association with obsessive fanboy hatred. In that hypothetical universe, the 2016 "Ghostbusters" reboot (later officially re-dubbed "Ghostbusters: Answer the Call") didn't become a front in the larger mid-2010s gender wars that stretched from Gamergate to Donald Trump's election.
Let's pretend, hypothetically, that we lived in a world without sexism.