By Steve Sailer
01/25/2013
From the Los Angeles Times:
Women in combat? Old news for lady warriors of the big screen
By Noelene Clark
January 24, 2013, 3:55 p.m.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is lifting the ban on women serving in ground combat units, a landmark decision that will open up some 230,000 military jobs to women. But this is hardly new territory for the ladies of the big screen, where females have been fighting on the front lines for decades.
That’s not to say these fictional fighters are always on equal footing with their male colleagues. In some films the military heroines spend as much time battling gender barriers as they do fighting the enemy, like Demi Moore’s muscled character in "G.I. Jane." …
In the realm of science fiction, however, there are plenty of films in which nobody bats an eye at women in combat. Take tough-as-nails Pvt. Jenette Vasquez of the Colonial Marines, played by Jenette Goldstein, in James Cameron’s 1986 action thriller "Aliens."
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