I admire its purity. A survivor…unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.
After many references in previous episodes, on this week’s show, the Guy Girls finally tackle the iconic 1979 film Alien. Ridley Scott’s masterpiece gave Tracie and Emily a role model in Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver to be smart, tough, vulnerable, and right. While many commentators have explored the ways this film works as an allegory for rape and loss of bodily autonomy, Emily’s analysis takes it a little deeper, comparing the words and actions of the villainous science officer Ash to the modern anti-abortion movment. Both focus on protecting potential life–while treating the very real humans who will be harmed as entirely expendable.
Throw on your headphones, save the cat, and take a listen…
CW: Discussions of rape, forced birth, and loss of bodily autonomy
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