Unfortunately we did not get to see the movie "Legally Blonde" today, but it is a great chick flick with many gender stereotypes. The play is based on this girl who is in college and she so happens to be drop dead gorgeous. She is the most popular girl in her sorority and has many friends. She has long blonde hair and a picture perfect body. Her entire goal in life is to get engaged to her college boyfriend, Warner. In one of the first scenes he dumps her and tells her that he is going to Harvard Law School. Elle, played by Reese Witherspoon, is devastated. She is adamant about getting her boyfriend back, so she decides to apply to Harvard herself, and she just so happens to get in.
I think this is a great girl empowerment movie, but it does degrade blondes a lot. Elle's room is pink, her clothes are pink, and she even writes notes in her classes with a pink pen. Elle fits into the stereotypical cookie cutter shape of a blonde, hints the title of the movie, "Legally Blonde."
Elle's initial plan is to go to Harvard and win her ex-boyfriend back. She arrive there to find her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend, who so happens to be a brunette. His new girlfriend, Vivian, is quite frumpy. She wears long skirts, sweater vests, and headbands. This is a stereotype of a smart girl who supposedly should be attending Harvard.
Later on in the movie Elle gets a prestigious internship type thing, and later find out that the only reason she got it was because she was pretty and the professor had a crush on her. In one scene, he makes a pass at her and tells her how beautiful she is. This reminded me of what Jaclyn and Jennifer's dyad was about today. They talked about a certain Hispanic lady flirting back with the men in her workplace just so she could get a certain opportunity.
In the end, Elle prevails over every obstacle that she faces and finally graduates from Harvard at the top of her class. She gets the guy that she has been crushing on the entire movie, and he just so happens to be a college professor's assistant. Her ex-boyfriend ends up graduating without a girlfriend. Legally Blonde is a great girl power movie and it really enforces the saying that "girls rule and boys drool,” but it does degrade women just a bit.
I think this is a great girl empowerment movie, but it does degrade blondes a lot. Elle's room is pink, her clothes are pink, and she even writes notes in her classes with a pink pen. Elle fits into the stereotypical cookie cutter shape of a blonde, hints the title of the movie, "Legally Blonde."
Elle's initial plan is to go to Harvard and win her ex-boyfriend back. She arrive there to find her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend, who so happens to be a brunette. His new girlfriend, Vivian, is quite frumpy. She wears long skirts, sweater vests, and headbands. This is a stereotype of a smart girl who supposedly should be attending Harvard.
Later on in the movie Elle gets a prestigious internship type thing, and later find out that the only reason she got it was because she was pretty and the professor had a crush on her. In one scene, he makes a pass at her and tells her how beautiful she is. This reminded me of what Jaclyn and Jennifer's dyad was about today. They talked about a certain Hispanic lady flirting back with the men in her workplace just so she could get a certain opportunity.
In the end, Elle prevails over every obstacle that she faces and finally graduates from Harvard at the top of her class. She gets the guy that she has been crushing on the entire movie, and he just so happens to be a college professor's assistant. Her ex-boyfriend ends up graduating without a girlfriend. Legally Blonde is a great girl power movie and it really enforces the saying that "girls rule and boys drool,” but it does degrade women just a bit.
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Lauren,
it would have been a great idea to connect Legally Blonde to the bits of the movie that we watched in class.
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