How are Gender stereotypes represented in Legally Blonde?

Question

How are Gender stereotypes represented in Legally Blonde?

Answer 1

I don't know, but that movie was the theatrical version of being waterboarded. I'm sure.

Answer 2

b***s are prominent.

Answer 3

Even though the movie is attacking stereotypes, it does so by "making them plain."  The stereotype of the blonde woman is a person who is, well, DUMB.  So Reese Witherspoon acts out that stereotype. She doesn't challenge that stereotype initially - she applies to Harvard to be  with her boyfriend - which is the stereotype of the submissive woman who depends on a man for support. But later, she challenges the stereotype by proving her professional worth and intelligence ( but does so largely in a "dumb blonde" way). The movie isn't revolutionary, but it is Liberal.

    The female professor is the hard-as-a-man stereotype

     The feminist student is the bra-burning-L*****n-feminist stereotype

     The defendant is the woman-who-only-marries-a-man-for-his-mon... stereotype (aka the Anna Nicole Smith stereotype)

It's not that there aren't people in the world that fit the stereotype, but the problem is: once the stereotype is created, then a self-fulfilling prophecy is created, and people become like the stereotype.

g*y men did not always talk with a lisp - enter the search term "g*y clone" to see how that image developed in America. Once the stereotype was created, more g*y people started acting like the stereotype.

You can use stereotypes to punish people, you can hide behind them for advantage, you can use them to make sense of your world (however distorted), or you can resist them. Most people do a little bit of each, but the mix depends on the individual.

Those are just a few notes.

Answer 4

a blond, a ***** and a whole heap of beauty products

Answer 5

women love shopping; they are clothes focused; they are irrational and cannot be serious; they are materialistic; that women who take care to be feminine are more successful