Hey blog readers! So yesterday, as I was drowning in an insane amount of homework I heard the familiar voice of none other than Elle Woods. My roommates were watching Legally Blonde and I, like, just had to watch. I absolutely love this movie and feel as though it is a hilarious representation of the stereotypes that face lawyers today. Elle Woods makes her way through the halls of Harvard in bright pink clothes with a fluffy pen and she is given dirty looks and judgmental comments. Is that what law school is really like? Where women get engaged for the sole purpose of marrying rich, and if you spray perfume on your resume you'll get a highly competitive internship? I find this movie to be an amazing use of our generations obsession with comedy to demonstrate the stereotypes that women in law face. This profession is one that has historically been filled by men, so women lawyers have the stereotype that they are high-strung, un-caring, un-fashionable jerks. So when Elle Woods arrived women across the nation were able to see that you don't have to fit all of those negative characteristics, you can be fabulous and still change the world!
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