seti-fan:

Was thinking last night about an underrated line in Ghostbusters. I am probably getting the exact wording wrong, but when Patty was showing them around the subway, this conversation happened:

Patty: That’s where I found the weird sparking thing.
Holtzmann: What was it?
Patty: Baby, if I knew, I wouldn’t have called it the ‘weird sparking thing’.

What I love about this (aside from Patty calling Holtzy ‘baby’) is that again it supports the idea that Patty is never presented as less intelligent than the other Ghostbusters. She doesn’t know the term for whatever weird device was down there because none of us would unless we were specialists in that field. Any one of us in that theater would have described it a similar way. But she kind of defensively implies she knows how to use correct terminology, this just was something entirely new to her experience. Only moments earlier, she was regaling them with detailed history of the building above them because that is her expertise and she can break out that knowledge as fast as the other girls do their physics and paranormal science.

I just love all these genius women on a team and I hate when it’s implied Patty can’t stand equally with them. Different field doesn’t mean less intelligent.