Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor etc you are looking at those characters through rose tinted glasses.

There isn't a single movie where the female heroes weren't forced. There isn't a single movie where replacing them with male heroes would have made the stories worse, in fact it would have probably made them better. Terminator could have been about the bonding of a father and son in the war against the machines for example.

Feminists were just testing the waters back then to see what they could have gotten away with and started demanding more and more as the time flew by. Aliens and Terminator gave rise to Charlie's Angels and Kill Bill which gave rise to Hunger Games and Star Wars VII-IX. It is as simple as that really.

I can't force you not to enjoy those movies any more, but every time you praise them, remember they were the reason Hollywood is infested with feminist propaganda today.