Why is the Alien-Predator male? Simply, because it is a man in a suit. One with the secondary sexual characteristics typically viewed as male in the West–broad shoulders, extreme musculature, and a lack of breasts. In my psychoanalytic reading of this male-oriented character, I looked for signs that represented sex and sexuality. The phallic assemblage of the alien-predator hybrid was unavoidable, and the striking scene in which it orally rapes the pregnant woman in the hospital pointed to seriously problematic issues visually represented in the film. Obviously from my posts on this issue, there is more at stake here than simply my thinking something looks like a penis.

I suggest you take some time to sit down and talk to women about their experiences with pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering, and I’m confident that you’ll find that your supposed male and female equality in the creation of life far exceeds the exchange of sperm.

On a related note, it’s strange that you glorify a woman’s ability to give birth without giving due credit to a man’s role of supplying half the genetic information for that birth to take place. Without men, women cannot naturally give birth, just as men cannot create offspring without women. I’ll admit that it is somewhat “unfair” in an abstract sense that women have to bear most of the burden of childbirth, but the fault for this is obviously is not man’s, and amounts to more of a biological accident than the ruling of a patriarchy. In the case that childbirth by women is simply a coincidence, why should women receive praise for being creators, when their role as such is fundamentally dependent on men?

so you are telling us that women can immaculatly conceive?

….typical narrow minded women,

just a quick sexual reproduction lesson
SPERM (from man) + egg (from woman) = Baby