Debra,
_Aliens_ was a big-budget SF movie, so is _Mimic_. Films with powerful
women _can_ be marketable and bring lots of cash. One does not have to
make sexist movies to make money, unless they want to.
Marina
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997,
Debra Euler wrote:
> So in Event Horizon the doctor character was a woman whose nightmare
> concerned her child, and the captain was a man whose nightmare
> concerned the death of a subordinate. What else do you really expect
> from a fairly big-budget mainstream SF movie? This sort of movie
"Femininity is code for femaleness plus whatever society
happens to be selling at the time."
Naomi Wolf
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