Throughout Aliens I noticed a trend that resembled quite a
few other books, movies, and in general anything that had a female lead. There
seems to be a distrust of female leaders. This can be from the idea that she’s
not as smart as a male leader would be. Clearly Ripley was just as smart, and
even more qualified than any of them to deal with the aliens, however, her lack
of military skills kept her from having their full confidence. Obviously we
still had characters like Vasquez who were strong females that took lead roles,
Vasquez however, was portrayed with typically “masculine” attributes. This isn’t
something that is only present in Aliens. In tons of other movies and books the
same idea is used. But why does a girl always have to be distrusted simply because
she’s a girl? It’s like only a male can lead and know what he’s talking about,
even if a woman is clearly just as qualified. We even see this in presidential
elections, it reminds me of when Hillary Clinton ran and everyone assumed she’d
make a bad leader because her emotions
would get in the way.
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