---In [email protected], <authfriend@...> wrote:
Think about "Alien." Or even its sequel "Aliens." There was not a moment when
anyone in the creative crew (writers, directors, actors) thought, "Wow...who is
going to get to fuck Ripley?" As a result, no one in any of the audiences ever
thought it, either. Ripley was one of the strongest female characters ever put
on a movie screen, and both men and women reacted to her *as* strong, not as a
"distraction" or something merely added to a primarily male cast as a fuck
puppet.
There have been tons of strong female characters in tons of movies. It is a bit
of a cliche to claim Ripley was one of the strongest. And how do you know
"There was not a moment when anyone in the creative crew (wirters, directors,
actors) thought, "Wow...who is going to get to fuck Ripley?" You were not on
the creative crew, not even the the guy emptying the trash bins on the set at
the end of the day so how do you know this?
Not to mention how he knows what was going on (or not going on) in the minds
of every person, male and female, who ever saw the movie.
And given Seraphita's posting history here I believe you took her comment way
out of context and misread her tone. If you had been paying attention to her
posts all this time you would realize she is probably one of the least sexist
people posting here. Now you, on the other hand...
Hilarious to see Barry chastising a woman for being sexist. As I just said in
a previous post, it's sometimes tough to figure out where he stands.
Barry likes to "stand", to plant his feet firmly on the beliefs, the
sensitivities, the understandings and more delicate aspects of other's lives.
He just loves to stomp on anything that suggests a way of thinking or existing
that doesn't correspond exactly to what he claims he believes. Of course, he
claims to believe nothing, which in and of itself is hilarious.
