Defeminizing Female Characters (The Critical Drinker)
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With aliens, the audience roots for Ripley in part because they know what she knows, and what the bureaucrats and gung-ho professional soldiers don't listen to. It has something in common with the typical contemporary girl better than stinky boys thing, but without denigrating half the audience.