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Stuff Mom Never Told You

Feminist Movie Friday: Aliens

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In honor of Xenomorph Day, we're going back to our feminist movie roots and talking about the 1986 classic Aliens. We explore topics of motherhood, trauma and capitalism.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:09.2

Hey, this is Annie.

0:10.4

And Samantha.

0:11.2

And welcome to Steph One Never Told You, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:39.8

And today, we are returning to our roots, our feminist movie Friday roots anyway, and talking about aliens, the 1986 sequel to Alien, which we talked about in great detail in our first feminist movie Friday.

0:44.1

I was so excited to do that. I will not forget that.

0:46.8

You were. It was a long episode, I remember.

0:53.6

It was quite long and had a lot of discussion of art, imagery, symbolism.

0:55.7

So many vaginas, apparently.

0:58.5

So many vaginas and phallic shapes.

0:58.9

Yes.

1:06.3

So go listen to that one, because we're not going to get into that as much in this one.

1:07.9

But it's still there.

1:09.1

It's still very much there.

1:31.3

I have said it before, and I will say it again. I think every alien movie, whether it is good or not, has something interesting to say about women. Motherhood, babies, sexual assault, faith, and science. So yes, I, oh, well, we'll talk about that later, but I think this might be the last one I make you watch, Samantha.

1:37.7

Well, you'll understand later.

1:49.0

So, we are going to get into the themes, but we're not going to get so much into the threatening sexuality and set design and the ideas addressed around rape and impregnation. So I guess

1:56.0

content warning that that is a part of these movies.

2:08.1

But it is there and see the original.

2:11.2

See our original feminist movie Friday for more about that. I think we need to bring it back as a classic.

2:13.4

Maybe.

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