Edited sentence: (1) Women, especially strong, successful career women, need to be controlled by hip guys.(2) It's dangerous for attractive women to sleep with lower class men including "nerds".(3) The cities of the 1970s were taken over by the minority and marginalized Other and needed to be retaken by hip and upper middle class people.(4) Fairy tales and literature itself can only be read literally, and a reifying spirit.(5) If you need money you can start your own business with almost any business plan, including a completely absurd business plan.(6) It's Okay to not grow up.Ghosts are "real" and it's quite proper to be scared of "spooks" (a racist meme in America) as opposed to any deeper change in one's psyche, which might render one less overall hip and cool.If read humourlessly and literally, the movie does send these messages:.Others (reference needed) took Ghostbusters seriously as an instance of what Max Horkheimer and Theodore Adorno call "psychoanalysis in reverse".The film was of course made as light, hip, and ironic entertainment for older kids and parents who could be titillated by the sex and catchphrases, and most critics (reference needed) took it at face value for this reason