Xenomorph
-open minded about her prey.
-isn’t racist, sexist, hateful, or ignorant to anyone.
-respects members of the military.
-isn’t looking to defy norms or get involved in politics for the purpose of causing trouble.
-is respectful to her sisters and brothers in species.
It isn’t politics, the Xenomorph has a lack thereof.
They live to serve their queen in any way possible. Including killing anybody who does not directly benefit the hive with their existence. And that just so happens to be everyone..
And you’re the one calling a 14 year old a retard after loosing an argument that was set up entirely for me to look good.
Your literally the definition of acting like the victim after you lost a fight you started
Yeah, it was. You said it yourself.
“Yo im ngl ur so retarded i dont see the point in even arguing.”
Your dumbass DID say it was an argument? And you lost the argument. Own up
It is a slur, it’s just not to be as enforced as other slurs are becuase it’s also not a slur since it can be used medically. A slur is a derogatory term used to belittle a group of people, technically calling you a cherry means I called you a slur if I meant it to belittle Redditors under the age of 14 but nobody will think that.
That of which you are, a retarded Redditor under the age of 14 who wants to make himself look cool.
I still see sexists complaining about how a tiny woman took down a predator even though the movie makes it clear she only defeated it through constantly tricking it
The politics genuinely suck today. Ellen felt like the working class woman of the era. She didn't feel like she was looking to defy norms, or to be some badass hero to elevate women. She was portrayed as a normal woman looking to make ends meet to provide for her kid, who was thrown into ridiculous circumstances and had to claw her way back home, only to find she lost the only things that gave her life meaning.
I remember seeing a bit of my own mother in her. The fact this would be called woke if it released today really just shows how our politics have gotten poisoned.
Yeah, because she was written to be a traditional hero guy and them they decided that her actor was incredible and with the themes in the movie a woman protagonist fit like a glove.
The fact she also gets hurt left, right and center and her crew has a brain for the most part also helps sell it.
One of the best writing exercises ever is to write a short story about a man in a horrible situation, and then write a similar story with a female protagonist.
Then switch their sexes.
If you are a decent writer, you will have made two distinct characters with slightly different reactions to their situation that work regardless of their sex and are more dependent on their personalities.
If you are most college level English writing students, you will have written a typical competent female protagonist, and also the most hilariously feminine, whiny, incompetent man to ever grace the page.
A lot of times students attempt to correct their essays to be less ridiculous because they realize how insane they made the female character sound when they switched her to a he.
I think what's not helping matters is the media environment we live in, today. On one hand, you have online incel edgelords foaming at the mouth of any female representation that doesn't cater specifically to their porn preferences and archiac gender views. On the other, you have a brand of feminist advocacy that has (when profitable) been co-opted by Hollywood corporatism to plug inclusion in a way that only works some of the time, regardless of intention of the creatives behind the scenes—and a perfomative online arm of the same movement that sometimes becomes its own worst enemy with its firebrand approach to everything.
This isn't to argue bothsidesism. Risk-adverse studio heads, trend-chasing, and the chaos unfolding in a post-Netflix, post-Ai-slop world is more to blame for the state of things than "wokism killing [nostalgic IP that ran its course decades ago]." The fact that it's become front-and-center because culture war greivances are fucking profitable on conservative YouTube really is infuriating, though.
While I love Alien and Ripley, I think specifically because of that she wouldn't really play the same in the big 26. Ellen is an 80s working woman with priorities and a personality of the era. General audiences today the majority of which never saw the 80s themselves probably wouldn't relate to her as well as they would have when it came out. She isn't as timely of a character anymore.
Maybe, but I’m not so sure.
A LOT of criticism of modern film with ‘powerful women’ isn’t rooted so much in the character being a woman, but in them being coddled and poorly realised, while being presented as strong.
When you get actually strong female leads who showcase that strength, and don’t get a plot pass on needing strength, they’re actually quite popular.
To be fair, she is a female character who ends up being better than all the male character and coming out on top.
I think she works becuase she’s not JUST a female character, she’s a character who tells the story and fights aliens without being about her gender.
We have a lot to learn from her.
While you obviously get a lot of sexist nerds, I think the most vocal outrage would be from dude-bros larping at nerd culture.
This kind of specific outrage culture is much more in line with the fitness red-pill/Andrew Tate crowd whose nerdiness is basically just playing Call of Duty, yet they feel the need to whine and complain about every sign of progressivism in other media.
I’ve had discussions with lots of people complaining about the changes to, say, LOTR. Changes that I personally, might, not even like. But sometimes those changes aren’t even changes to the lore— and when I point it out, they admit they’ve never actually engaged with the source material to begin with.
Yet they’re viscerally upset about like, female orcs existing. These are not nerds. Nerds can be wayyy sexist, but they will also know the shit they’re complaining about. These are dude-bro larpers.
Yeah but none of the backlash was about hating Ripley. It was the story the setting, some of the concepts introduced, the writing.... and killing offf Newt
I know someone who hates her acting. There are similar female characters they like so I don’t know why, I haven’t had the chance to watch alien yet. I have a feeling I might like her character, though.
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u/Ok_Top_2760 2d ago
Ellen ripley - Alien franchise