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| | Feminism: An Alien Ideology? |
 | | Lambert, the navigator for the Nostromo, is high-strung, panicky and hysterical---in other words, she embodies the typical movie-female response to fear. |
 | | Ripley, on the other hand, doesn’t buckle or freeze under pressure as Lambert does when faced with the Alien: instead, her fight-or-flight instinct is highly honed, and she reacts as calmly as possible under the circumstances. |
 | | As a result of this portrayal, and its novelty, the viewer (typically male and typically 18-35) is already thinking in terms of Ripley being “different” in some way, and difference then becomes one thing she has in common with her enemy, the Alien itself (Torry 352). |
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