Bingowings said:

I once read a review of Aliens which postulated that it was all a racist metaphor for black and white motherhood.

The black alien queen is a parasite who constantly churns out hundreds of fatherless savage children which choke up the environment.

Ripley, the white mother figure throws all of her energy behind one adopted resourceful child and cleans up the neighbourhood after entering into a nuclear family unit with Hicks.

Utter balls.

I just kept thinking about that.

There are people who dismiss are criticism of racism in films with a flippant "well, some people are just looking for a reason to be offended." I usually don't think that's the case.

But in this case with Aliens, that has to be the case.

It's so stupid it makes my head hurt.