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Alien: Abjection and the Dark Feminine

The Whole Rabbit

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The Dark Feminine in Ripley

Ripley is a protagonist meant for typical males to identify with, but she encounters the dark feminine. And I feel like women understand the dark feminine a little bit better than men. So having Ripley as a carrier makes the movie not only more mysterious, but your subconscious will understand it more with a female protagonist versus a male because- Yes.

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