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The pictures that you think support your point don't. It doesn't matter that she takes on the maternal role, I never said she didn't, what I said was that she uncomfortable with it. It was new to her. I brought up feelings and emotions she had to come to grips with. It was the entire point of having the child there in the first place after all, not to show Ripley as super mom, but to have her develop maternal feelings as an excuse for her to stop running and start fighting.

Your next picture is of her holding a rifle as if that proves your point. Any idiot can hold a rifle and pull a trigger. Plot wise she had never used that rifle before and had to be shown how to use it, and she never displayed any particular skills with it. Most of the time she almost had her eyes shut and pulled the trigger in the vague direction of the enemy. As such she wasn't portrayed as being a super soldier that could outfights the space marines. She was portrayed as someone that was going to fight back regardless of experience and skills.

Yes Paul Riser was a progressive yes man. Willing to sacrifice others for themselves? Progressive. Willing to wipe out and entire colony for their ambitions? Progressive. Willing to risk millions of lives to bring back a species with dubious profit potential? Progressive. I know what Cameron's politics are but Ultra libs typically project their worst flaws onto their villains thinking that it makes the villains republican but it doesn't. The oft maligned "robber barons"? (Dances with Smurfs) Historically they were progressives, some even helped fund Marx. Terminator? That was the individualistic preppers vs. Google wasn't it? Or Dances with wolves where the union army (party of Lincoln right?) lieutenant befriends a local group of natives and then a bunch of KKK like (formed by democrats weren't they?) nuts decide to randomly kill everything? (which isn't historically accurate but whatever) Ya I saw the movies. I both know what liberals try to portray and what they actually do portray.