Feminization Anxiety in Pop Culture: Aliens, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Masculinity
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Rob Finnerty argues that aliens in films are used to mock gender norms and fear the erosion of masculinity by the left, linking this to a nostalgia for toughness and woke culture, while noting that gender is a social construct and suggesting any extraterrestrial mind beyond Earth is unlikely to have a recognizable gender.
