Stereotypes In The Movie Legally Blonde

Next, many gender and sexual stereotypes are perpetuated in media, through the ways of movies. In fact, the movie Legally Blonde fits under the category of stereotypes exceptionally well, since it shows many stereotypes of women in the society. For instance, there is one scene in the movie, where Warner, the handsome boy is playing football with his friends, and Elle, the dumb blonde sits on the sidelines to study and distract the guys playing as she wears nothing but a sparkly bikini top under a furry shawl on her upper half. This example evidently portrays the serotype of being a blonde dumb. Throughout the movie “Legally Blonde” Elle is shown as a material sorority girl, who is a duplicate copy of barbie in real life. When she gets into

This movie shows stereotypical blonde girls, through the eyes of Elle, and this is unhealthy since people in reality also assume these characteristics to be true of every blonde girl they see. People fail to see individuality because of these stereotypes. After all, no matter what happens, people will always assume blonde girl to be dumb. Another example of stereotypes perpetuated through the movie is how the men in the movie “Legally Blonde” are portrayed as stereotypical males. In fact, there is one scene in the movie where the admission counselors of Harvard, accept Elle through her video application mostly because of her looks. In the video, she is wearing a swimwear, and convincing why she should come to Harvard. This evidently fits the stereotype of male, who makes a decision and their decision is often influenced by the female’s beauty. In addition, in the movie men are shown to have the power of women, and an example of this in the movie is when Callaghan, uses Vivian as his personal slave to get him what he wants instead of a male character working for him. These examples in the movie continue to put negative ideas in the mind of people who watch the movie especially