“Get Away From Her, You Bitch!”
As I think about the "Alien" series more, I keep coming back to its use of a gendered term as the go-to insult. It seems weird for a feminist movie franchise. Why does it keep popping up in powerful moments? Read on to reclaim language with Ripley.
MU/TH/UR Doesn’t Always Know Best
Let's talk about a freaky maternal figure who didn’t get the recognition she deserved in the Alien episode: MU/TH/UR, the Nostromo’s artificial intelligence system.