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Unused audio commentary by Dinseh D’Souza and Ann Coulter recorded Spring 2003 for Aliens Special Red-State Edition DVD. From—where else?— McSweeney’s.
Excerpt:
D’SOUZA: Ripley’s got a little bit of … you know, she looks like the head of a woman’s studies department.
COULTER: I violently disagree. Ripley is slightly mannish. But that’s her right as a woman. Look at Barbara Bush. Mannish women are often better soldiers. Let’s talk about this scene, though, this fantastic boardroom scene, in which the board members discuss with Ripley the Corporation’s alien policy. Two things. We see that Ripley is 1) a take-charge woman but certainly not a whining feminist, and 2) completely unrepentant about the destruction of the alien in the first film. If certain cultures — for example, the alien’s — are going to be hostile to your own, then they have to be either Christianized or destroyed.
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