Stereotypes In The Movie Legally Blonde

Stereotypes are oversimplified images assigned to groups of people related to their race, nationality, and culture. Stereotypes generalize groups of people in ways that lead to ignorance to diversity within a community. Many people can be stereotyped in ways that sometimes are valid or invalid. Some common stereotypes within today's society are as follows: blondes are dumb, all Mexicans are lazy and come to America illegally, or all African-Americans are criminals. An excellent contemporary piece of fictional media that defies widely accepted stereotypes is a movie entitled Legally Blonde. Legally Blonde’s central idea is that if one is a woman, more specifically a blonde woman, they are automatically categorized as being dumb. Elle Woods,

Throughout Jenning’s essay, examples introduce how the media portrays masculine dominance over women, he says, “most women aren't able to conquer the workplace with such elegance and ease” (557). Individuals believe this idea because most men are illustrated as masculine individuals who complete their work better and quicker compared to women. This stereotype depicts men as being superior towards women despite both genders having equal capabilities in completing any task. This connotation applies to Legally Blonde. At the end of the movie, Elle’s professor, Professor Callahan, needs help on a murder case, therefore, he selects Elle as one of his interns on the case just because he thinks she's pretty. He neither takes her seriously nor acknowledges her intellectual capabilities; he just wants to get closer to her. The murder case that he selected Elle in involves Mrs. Windham, who is being accused of murdering her husband. When the time of trial comes Mrs. Windham fires Mr. Callahan and chooses Elle as her new legal counsel. When Mrs. Windham chooses Elle to represent her case everyone laughs at the decision she makes and most people think that she will lose the case because Elle is too girly and too blonde to win the case for her. Mr. Callahan even says, “enjoy prison” to Mrs. Windham. Everyone got shocked at the fact that she fires a man and hires a woman instead. Elle justifies the invalidity of the stereotype when she acquits all charges for Mrs.Windham’s due to her personal experiences that other individuals may have not experienced which leads to Mrs. Windham winning the