Ghostbusters, an equation: 

 
4 funny women over 30, where the panning shots are of their talented action and not sexualizing their bodies.
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3 women with PhDs, and 1 with an encyclopedic knowledge of New York, who go into business for themselves and help each other get over craving validation from academia; all the while demonstrating that skill, talent, and knowledge can happen outside institutional systems of oppression.
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2 friends who wrote a book together, and the central love story is a platonic love story.
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1 queer artistic genius engineer with keen fashion sense that represents the mad scientist every little girl wanted to be growing up.
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Why people in their 30s find themselves spontaneously crying at this movie, and why Ghostbusters is the signal that everything is changing.

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