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Action movies, which have long been the provenance of hyper masculinity, have only recently allowed women a place at the armory. The journey from Sigourney Weaver’s desexualized Ripley in Alien to Angelina Jolie’s sexually charged Lara Croft in Tomb Raider has marked something of a sea change in popular conceptions of gender.
Tough women characters were once stripped of their sexuality when handed a machine gun, but now tough women characters are expected to possess an aggressive sexuality (...)