To illustrate, in the scene where Burke is trying to convince Ripley to go back into space to help the missing colonists, Burke brings up the job she got hired at which is using forklifts and lifting cargo. Burke then says “And I know it 's the only thing that you could get. There 's nothing wrong with it” (Cameron). This is exactly like Wal-Mart because “Almost 2,000 women in 48 states claim that Walmart discriminated against them for pay and promotions” (Hines 1). Burke in a way put Ripley down because of the job she got because that is all she can get because she is a women. When he said that is the only thing she can get, he was belittling Ripley’s working class skill, implying that she cannot get anything better than that. This correlates to the complaints that the Wal-Mart employees were making. They were not getting paid what they should be because they are being discriminated against and dismissed because they are women, just like Ripley. Another example of this would be that Lieutenant Gorman dismisses something that Ripley said, all under probable cause that she is a woman, even though in the end she is right. Ripley is saying how the soldiers should not fire their weapons because their current location is a big fusion reactor. Lieutenant Gorman simply says “So?”
To illustrate, in the scene where Burke is trying to convince Ripley to go back into space to help the missing colonists, Burke brings up the job she got hired at which is using forklifts and lifting cargo. Burke then says “And I know it 's the only thing that you could get. There 's nothing wrong with it” (Cameron). This is exactly like Wal-Mart because “Almost 2,000 women in 48 states claim that Walmart discriminated against them for pay and promotions” (Hines 1). Burke in a way put Ripley down because of the job she got because that is all she can get because she is a women. When he said that is the only thing she can get, he was belittling Ripley’s working class skill, implying that she cannot get anything better than that. This correlates to the complaints that the Wal-Mart employees were making. They were not getting paid what they should be because they are being discriminated against and dismissed because they are women, just like Ripley. Another example of this would be that Lieutenant Gorman dismisses something that Ripley said, all under probable cause that she is a woman, even though in the end she is right. Ripley is saying how the soldiers should not fire their weapons because their current location is a big fusion reactor. Lieutenant Gorman simply says “So?”