One possible explanation would be to look at Cameron's extratexual life. He was married for a longtime to producer Gale Anne Hurd who has been viewed as responsible for some of the feminist politics of his earlier films, such as ALIENS, THE TERMINATOR MOVIES, and THE ABYSIS. As I understand it, the ABYSIS was shot at the time they were breaking up and thus, the need the two characters have for each other even in the face of maritial estrangement was a factor on the set as well as off. Subsequently, Cameron was involved with Kathleen Bigelow, another feminist working within the action film genre. I don't read PEOPLE so I don't know the current state of their relationship. I also haven't seen TRUE LIES yet, though I am a long time Cameron fan but I remain skeptical that the misogynistic reading of the film is all that there is. My experience has been that most of Cameron's films have had some criticisms by some feminist critics and have been embraced by others. We have to understand the gender politics of the films within the context of their particular blend of feminist intervention and the genre conventions of the action film. I certainly would claim that many of his previous films have strongly questioned conventional assumptions about gender and reworked the genre to accomodate strong female protagonists, even if there were moments that felt more reactionary and contradicted those dominant tendencies in the films. We make a mistake when we read Hollywood ideology in an all-or-nothing fashion. --Henry Jenkins