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  • I loved how they handled the concept of a feminine hero in the sequel.

    Ripley is the hero, but there’s also Vasquez - the badass marine. Vasquez is what so many people tried to do to make women heroic in action films.

    She’s just an action hero that happens to be a woman. And she’s great. But her character isn’t classically “feminine.”

    Meanwhile Ripley is all woman. Her iconic badass moment (“Get away from her you bitch!”) is the action climax of the film, and its also when she’s being her most feminine. Her heroism didn’t carry an asterisk saying she’s a badass despite her sex.

    She’s not sexy, not vulnerable, not emulating a stereotypical man’s role in combat. She’s all-woman and all-badass.






  • I’m not going to get over it. Hundreds of thousands of people are already dying from this motherfucker’s actions, he’s announced plans to entirely remove all Palestinians forever to build fucking resorts. He’s disappearing people and arresting judges. He deployed the military against protesters.

    We knew all of this would happen. He said he’d be a dictator starting day 1 and would devote his administration to revenge against his political opponents.

    Bet you still chose not to vote against this. You actively chose this outcome. There’s blood on your hands, and you don’t get to wash it off.