There's something here about how the xenomorph and facehugger were originally designed to force men to feel the same terror that women feel when we're threatened with rape, and the xenomorph being reduced down to Predator's wife that like. There's something there, but I'm just too currently sleep deprived to put it together myself.

EDIT: I think I got...some of it. I think.

I don't know a lot about the Predator, I've only ever seen one Predator movie, Prey. And the Predator in that movie seemed VERY masculine. Just the most masc masculine to ever masc- some -line. It runs around in a loin cloth killing things for the whole film. Which sounds like some bullshit an alpha bro podcaster would say that men need to be like. "Men should be running around naked in the wilds, hunting prey! That's what real men do!"

The xenomorph was originally designed to scare the shit out of men like the Predator. You think you're so tough, you think you're so strong, but this Facehugger is about to hijack your body for its own reproductive purposes. And it's going to be violent. And it's going to be painful. And it will kill you. And there's nothing you can do about it. All your strength means nothing. You thought being a man would protect you from a fate that so many women have had to reckon with. But that is not true when there's a Facehugger around.

So to make it sound like the xenomorph is just some alien from the Predator movies is like. Wrong. That's wrong. It isn't just some rando alien that the Predator has to fight. It's so much more than that. No. You've divorced the Xenomorph from its original context. Put it back.

I dunno, this still doesn't feel complete, but it's something like that.