Fear of a Woman Warrior

[Psychosplodge]

Interesting.

IMDB Says both.

An early draft of the script had a male Ripley, making this one of at least three films where Sigourney Weaver played a character originally planned to be a man. The second is The TV Set and the third is Vantage Point.

All of the names of the main characters were changed by Walter Hill and David Giler during the revision of the original script by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. The script by O'Bannon and Shusett also had a clause indicating that all of the characters are "unisex", meaning they could be cast with male or female actors. However, Shusett and O'Bannon never thought of casting Ripley as a female character.

[Myu]

@Eldargal

I remember that chick in Space marine, she was awesome. I'm a little uncertain though of what you think of the fact that her lines are gender neutral. I sort of go the impression some times you were saying "making a deal about her being a woman is bad" but other times it felt more "It would have been nice to point it out actually". What route do you think the writers should have taken?

[eldargal]

I like that her lines were gender neutral, it is the perfect way of writing a strong female character in a combat environment.

[White Tiger88]

@Eldargal

I remember that chick in Space marine, she was awesome. I'm a little uncertain though of what you think of the fact that her lines are gender neutral. I sort of go the impression some times you were saying "making a deal about her being a woman is bad" but other times it felt more "It would have been nice to point it out actually". What route do you think the writers should have taken?

Funny enough the second they showed her i thought a chaos marine would pop up and shank her.......

[eldargal]

Thankfully they avoided that cliche.

[White Tiger88]

Thankfully they avoided that cliche.

Wait for a squeal lol

[Myu]

@White Tiger88

Hopefully the sequal won't have that :S

@Eldargal

Cool . What would be good then for a non-combat environment? What would one put in to make her obviously feminine while not being a stereotype or sexist?

I know clothes/shopping/beauty stuff is the trope but statistically how common that is or whether you could put it in without offending most girls I have no idea. There are many different kind of girls out there, with may different interests but what would most people accept as generally feminine to do/say/act like?