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Honestly the libfemmy-ness left a bad taste in my mouth. Idgaf what ppl say that nasty Brooke pickme deserved it๐ It's 1 thing for gross yt men to go after 20yo brides from developing Asia, it's another thing when an accomplished young woman CHOOSES an old man when she already has her own wealth. Any woman who purposefully chooses that arrangement, especially KNOWING he has a daughter her same age is ๐คข๐คฎ. And the way the camera and plot just... veer off the daughter after she accidentally incriminated herself is disgusting too. Like she's not a victim too? She accidentally unalived her dad after trying to get after his barely legal(that term makes me๐คข) prey (which is messed up and patriarchy too, I'm not excusing the daughter for not going after her gross dad as well). Actually the movie handles age gaps poorly in general. Why is Elle dating that almost 30 Emett at the end? [Future me edit: In the 2nd movie is very obvious their age gap when they talk ๐]
Also, Emett worked with Calahan knowing he was a perv for years. He only left because a woman he was attracted to decided to MeToo Calahan. 0 accountability for the male charcters, and yet the plot has smoke for the poor daughter. ๐
Legally Blonde just fulfills the female fantasy of feminity being useful to ourselves too and not just men. With that comes the rampant product consumption trying to prove it, just like TRAs spending 1000s on "gender affirming" stuff to prove themselves. The movie namedrops so many brands in order to prove Elle's devotion to the social construct of feminity it's embarrassing ๐ณ. I truly hoped those brands paid for the promo. The "feminism" theme is flimsy here: Brooke is a scammer--a proto-IG model if you will--who is lying to her massive female audience about the effectiveness of her workout program while secretly doing lipo on the side. I get that women shouldn't be "outed" for having PS as that's blaming women for patriarchy, but Brooke is hurting other women's body image while pretending to be this all natural fitness goddess.
But yeah, I absolutely LOVED the female friendships in the movie! The way the sorority girls all support eachother is soooo cute and just goals. Besides the feminity worship, the portrayal of flipping the dumb blonde sterotype was just genius. It effectively humanizes women into these kinds of things to the males in the audience.
Also LMFAOOOOO @ having a fat ๐ being mentioned as a bad thing. As a 00s baby that line gave me whiplash๐ The funny thing is her nail salon friend would be considered a small butt today๐๐
While I do love legally blonde, you're not wrong ๐คฃ some parts are feminist, in a very basic way - like pushing the idea that a blonde pretty girl can in fact be smart...but she must still love her makeup and strut in pink.
Yeah this movie was released as part of the BACKLASH to women's rights and I wish libfems would stop glorifying it as the mark of the fourth wave ๐
I love Elle Woods in so many ways. Like her perseverance, and ability to be herself. She and I share an obsession with the colour pink.
Hereโs the thing, you gotta remember that โLegally Blondeโ was filmed during the early 00โs, alongside Gilmore Girls, Sex and the City, and Gossip Girl. At this time, the MeToo movement hadnโt come into the forefront and fast forward to like the next five years, Glee was just beginning to break boundaries and be โwokeโ for that time period. If โLegally Blondeโ contained any sort of appeal to reality, producers would have shut it down.
How I think of it is with the movie โBarbieโ and if it had been filmed around the time of โLegally Blondeโ, producers would have slashed so many things that made the movie relatable to women.
On another note, the age gap thingโฆ yeah thatโs huge. Elle would have been in her early 20โsโฆ twenty-three at most. Married by 25-27. Emmet would have been in his 30โs.