#original: legally blonde

[maisiepetersnetwork]

Legally Blonde (2001) dir. Robert Luketic Guy on a Horse (2023) by Maisie Peters

#legally blonde #maisie peters #maisiepetersedit #cinemapix #usersource #popularculturesource #filmedit #tvfilmsource #usermusic #dailymusicians #blondessource #userparallels #guy on a horse #tgw #gif #*original edit #*joanna

[yume-fanfare]

ok here. my pitch for fine climax

#i said legally blonde 2 originally because its the one abt getting to pass a law #but yea 👍 #tori himemiya #yuzuru fushimi #eichi tenshouin #wataru hibiki #ensemble stars #enstars #i was going to think harder abt the text composition but its. whoops 2 am we're leaving it as is its not that serious #art tag

[procrastaenating]

Women in cinema wearing pink whilst coming into their own 🤌

#pink #pink aesthetic #audrey hepburn #my fair lady #my fair lady 1964 #jung yoo min #perfect marriage revenge #korean drama #kdrama #julie andrews #my fair lady 1956 #Barbie #barbie 2023 #Margot Robbie #ryan gosling #kenough #elle woods #reese witherspoon #legally blonde #all pictures belong to original sources #There's so many of them I can't keep up #add your own

[rickktish]

Today my mom and I finished the 90’s superman TV show Lois and Clark and it’s a really great series and I think every superman fan ever should watch it because Henry Cavill has nothing on Dean Cain, but that’s not actually what this post is about. This post is about the fact that in a pre-Superboy Jon Kent world, the central arc of Clark Kent’s character was that he wanted a family of his own, and this culminates in (spoilers) the last episode being centered on the question of what to do about having kids since Clark’s biology is not compatible with humans’ for making babies, and my anthropology major brain couldn’t not analyze this through a gender/sexuality lens since I took a class all about the cultural impact of gender and media portrayals of it.

Here’s the thing: in the vast majority of media (I almost said western media but then I thought about it more and I think it’s actually pretty darn universal) infertility is a female plotline. It’s one of the few plots that is inherently feminine in nature because for so much of history we’ve viewed infertility as a woman’s concern. If a man and a woman can’t have a child, after all, it must be something wrong with her, right? (Ha. Ha. Ha. It’s not funny, actually.) But this means that this silly little superman show from the 90’s is portraying an infertility plot line, but the problem isn’t the female character’s fertility, it’s her husband’s. Except that since fertility is an “inherently” feminine plot line, we get almost no emotional impact of this news on Clark himself. Lois, after all, is the one who spent the second to last episode going through the question of whether or not she’s ready to have children and deciding that she is. It could perhaps be argued that this is because Clark has been ready for a while, because a family is all that he wants, but I think it’s also because the question of a working woman choosing to have a child is, culturally speaking, a very different question to a man choosing to have a child, and has been since women became acceptable in the work place.

Here’s my point though: Clark gets the news that he can’t reproduce with Lois, goes to talk to her, and ends up holding her as she mourns this loss of something they were hoping for. She doesn’t comfort him, except by coming up with actions they can take to try to get around their incompatible biology. Lois is the one who gets to mourn, while Clark continues to emphasize that they will be okay no matter what because they love each other. And all I could think about watching this was how removed Clark was from his own fertility. How completely separated he was from it. Because in spite of the issue being his fertility and not hers, Lois is the one who gets to have an emotional arc about it, because she is the woman in the story.

One of the solutions they come up with is to ask Lois’s father, who (in rare fashion) is not a general but instead a handy-dandy generalized “scientist,” to see if there’s anything he can come up with for them. In order to do so, though, they need to reveal to him that Clark is Superman. The whole scene where they’re trying to figure out how to tell him feels a little bit queer, because I can see a modern writer turning everything from it into a trans reveal instead of a secret identity, but that’s a little beside the point. The point is that still, at no point does Clark seem distressed for himself, but instead for how Lois feels about all this— up to and including the point about her mother’s lack of maturity meaning that she doesn’t feel safe telling her they’re trying to have a baby or that they’re facing infertility.

And from all this, somehow all I can think of is how far we’ve culturally removed men from power over their own fertility. It feels like the only things that get discussed on the news or in shows, up to and including the abortion issue, is women’s fertility. We rarely talk about giving men education about and control over their fertility, only women. Women’s bodies, women’s rights, but what about the fact that the men don’t seem to be attached enough to their own fertility to know or even consider what they can do to control it for themselves? I actually wonder if the requirement (historical or present, depending on where you live) for women to get permission from their husbands to get their tubes tied has more to do with men’s fertility than with their wives’, because in some ways it seems that the only control a man is offered over his own fertility in our culture is by exerting control over his wife. There’s an alienation between men and their ability to procreate that honestly baffles me now that I’ve thought about it. It’s separated from them by their relationship with their partner’s body, and I wonder if somehow giving men more control over their own fertility, and educating them about it and how they can reclaim it from where it has been outsourced to another body, might be a positive step. I wonder if our cultural disconnect between fathers and children might take a few steps if men were taught to view their reproductive systems as more than just pleasure centers, as a part of their personal fertility.

I don’t really know where I’m going with this, I think there’s more to be explored with this idea but I’m not fully prepared to go on the biological tangent with it yet so I think I’m going to leave it at that. I just. What would it take for men to reclaim their own fertility from where it has been culturally outsourced to women’s bodies?

#insert legally blonde joke here #something something masturbatory emissions as reckless abandonment #dc #superman #clark kent #lois lane #lois and clark #lois and clark tv show #clois #fertility #tw: abortion #abortion mention #tw fertility #discussion of fertility #tw sex mention #tw infertility #infertility #rick's originals #rick's rambles #anthropology #gender and sexuality

[littlegreenfag]

legally blonde is a good musical but it should’ve included more gratuitous references to Kander and Ebb’s Chicago

#adina's originals #legally blonde #chicago musical #chicago #i mean come on. Blood In The Water is one great big chicago reference #and it’s the greatest song in the show

[astagsart]

Happy birthday Christian Borle! This man plays exclusively assholes and/or sweethearts and I love them all

#holy shit he’s almost 50 #that’s not fair #who told him he could do that #falsettos #fanart #original art #falsettos fanart #the marvin trilogy #traditional art #marvin falsettos #christian borle #artists on tumblr #little shop of horrors #little shop nyc #orin lsoh #orin scrivello #legally blonde #emmett forrest

[lifewithchronicpain]

You know, legally blonde is all good fun and I did very much enjoy it. However I will never be convinced that keeping the secret that a woman was getting expensive fat removal procedures while selling exercise videos was the honorable thing to do. I don't think it's really defensible either. Just my two cents.

#fatphobia #weight loss culture #legally blonde #i originally said mean girls but its fucking late #and theyre both pink to me

[darkfrog24]

Siobhan from Wendell and Wild is not really Lane and Irmgard’s daughter. Elle Woods’ “If you’d shown up to a rush party, I would have at least been nice to you” attitude gained sentience and wandered into the Klaxons’ yard because she thought their shrubs needed fashion advice. They adopted her thinking she’d be the perfect prop.

#Wendell and Wild #Halloween #Legally Blonde #original posts #this is where my brain went #Siobhan Klaxon #I wonder if we're going to be obsessed with the token white girl like Charlotte in Princess and the Frog #but Disney did not bring its A game to PatF and I would say W&W is no worse than A minus... #We wanted to like PatF so much that we were searching for depth anywhere #Both Charlotte and Siobhan overflow with kindness but it overflows around the specific dam their culture/parents made and it has blind spots #Both use their privilege to help the protag but Siobhan does it on purpose

[jonathanblossom]

Você deve sempre ter fé nas pessoas.E o mais importante: você deve sempre ter fé em si mesmo.

Legalmente Loira

#jonathan blossom #nature #beautiful sky #sunrise #legally blonde #fotos tumblr #jon★th☆n #tumblr #my photos #original photography on tumblr #presidente prudente #brazil

[applejuiz]

fjordxjester legally blonde au

im very tired and i don’t have time for another big au but there’s something here I think

something something he comes from nothing and has to depend on pure ambition to gain any respect from the people around him

she’s pure romanticism and learns to value her own skills and be ambitious for the first time without ever compromising who she is

they learn from each other and balance each other, he embraces his lightness and learns to forge his own path, she starts to apply herself and respect her intellect

pink and lollipops

sprinkle is bruiser

if this makes sense in the morning I may have a problem

#fjorester #fjord x jester #save me chip on my shoulder from legally blonde the musical original cast album #chip on my shoulder save me #fjord #jester #fic stuff

[trashcreatyre]

It’s my birthday, therefore!!! I get to draw my faves as legally blonde characters because its my favorite movie <333333

We’ve got shadow as Elle (mostly bc i thought the courtroom dress would good on him), Bibi as Bruiser, rouge as Paulette, and knuckles (not pictured) as the UPS guy (i have no idea if he has an actual name, I know it’s Keith in the musical)

Uhm!! I like how it turned out and I’m probably not gonna be active much today :]]

#sonic the hedgehog #trashcreatyre's art #shadow the hedgehog #sth #sonic fanart #rouge the bat #chao sonic #chao #shadow chao #legally blonde #hehehehe :) #shadow’s face looks a little weird but i like most of it so idc lol #ive actually had this idea for weeks lol #just thought it was appropriate to draw it for my birthday #also i wasn’t gonna draw a chao originally but i freaking love bibi so much #also also rouge was supposed to be wearing a Garfield shirt since Paulette is wearing a tiger shirt in the original scene but it looked #ugly so im glad her arms cover most of it lol #also also also #shadow being Elle isn’t /supposed/ to be a genderbend? ig i dont care if you take it that way but it wasnt the original plan #bibi the chao

[the-lincyclopedia]

Hyper-specific thing currently making me emotional: when the blond soprano diva character in the musical harmonizes with the dark-haired character they love for once rather than taking the melody.

#a lin original #this is about glinda in 'for good' #but also about elle in 'take it like a man' #wicked #legally blonde #musicals #(by the way this post is neutral on the WAY in which glinda loves elphaba; platonic or romantic--it's a love story regardless)

[stickers-on-a-laptop]

you know i bet kitaoka sent in a headshot to his lawyer school just like elle woods

#rip kitaoka you would have loved the legally blonde musical #he WOULD have been able to see the original movie probably at least #shuichi kitaoka #kamen rider ryuki

[hampop]

What is your OC’s favorite comfort movie(s)?

#Diana’s is Legally Blonde and Spirit #Amelia’s is Reanimator #OC #original character

[coffeelovinggayidiot]

i need to ask this

do the characters in growth academy like musicals and if yes what are their favorites

Hazel loves all musicals (her favorite is into the woods) and she makes Veronica watch them with her (Veronica's favorite is legally blonde)

#my writing #growth academy #veronica #hazel #original character #original work #into the woods #legally blonde the musical

[highlifeboat]

dad you NEED to watch hocus pocus. for purty ladey and just generally, its a great time

That's what I hear lol

It's like Mean Girls all over again whenever I used to say I never saw Mean Girls people were like "you HAVE TO."

#im looking it up on my totally legal media watching platform and #there's three apparently #i will not be watching the other two pff but i will watch the original #asks #anons #but fine i'll watch hocus pocus for the plot (the plot is blond lady)