Legally Blonde is one of those things that I rarely admit to liking in conversations because I fear people will think it's ridiculous, but as soon as I say, "Oh, it's actually pretty awesome but I could be just being ironic about that," the other person says, "No, it really IS pretty awesome!"
Which is the same conversation I keep having about Lady Gaga, and clearly I need to be better about sticking up for my own opinions!
So, hooray for the flight to Japan where they showed it, because I'd never have watched it of my own free will.
I think a lot of us are inculcated with this subtle misogyny where we figure out that the trick to getting accepted as a Serious Person is to never, ever act like a Girl. But it's so easy to end up buying into that and think that it's shallow and silly to be into Girl Things.
I was never into Hello Kitty when I was a kid, or a teenager when I was so painfully awkward about my femininity and so desperate to be taken seriously. And yet I also felt that femininity was shut off from me (being 6 feet tall with size 12 feet, and liable to get called "sir"), and I had a weird mix of sad and defensive about that. College marks the point where I started to loosen up a lot and also to become aware of gender as something you can perform, and not just a characteristic you're stuck with... and suddenly I loved Hello Kitty. And I started to be okay with being the kind of person who likes Hello Kitty and wears men's shoes.
So, yeah, this is a movie that resonates for me on a lot of levels.
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Which is the same conversation I keep having about Lady Gaga, and clearly I need to be better about sticking up for my own opinions!
So, hooray for the flight to Japan where they showed it, because I'd never have watched it of my own free will.
I think a lot of us are inculcated with this subtle misogyny where we figure out that the trick to getting accepted as a Serious Person is to never, ever act like a Girl. But it's so easy to end up buying into that and think that it's shallow and silly to be into Girl Things.
I was never into Hello Kitty when I was a kid, or a teenager when I was so painfully awkward about my femininity and so desperate to be taken seriously. And yet I also felt that femininity was shut off from me (being 6 feet tall with size 12 feet, and liable to get called "sir"), and I had a weird mix of sad and defensive about that. College marks the point where I started to loosen up a lot and also to become aware of gender as something you can perform, and not just a characteristic you're stuck with... and suddenly I loved Hello Kitty. And I started to be okay with being the kind of person who likes Hello Kitty and wears men's shoes.
So, yeah, this is a movie that resonates for me on a lot of levels.