LEGALLY BLONDE: CONFIDENCE & AMBITION
We are tackling another 2000s classic this week by watching Legally Blonde!
Here’s the summary - Elle Woods is certain that Warner Huntington III is about to propose… until he dumps her in order to “get serious” for Harvard Law School. Elle decides she will do what it takes to win him back… and gets into Harvard Law as well. But then Warner is engaged! Elle, determined to show him how valuable she can be, gets the ultimate chance to prove herself when she’s accepted to work as an intern for a murder trial of a former sorority sister. But throughout the year at Harvard and during the trial, she realises that Warner is a bonehead and maybe she’s meant to be a lawyer, after all!
Our loose themes were confidence and ambition.
This episode was recorded on 9 April 2022.
“We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men.”
We’re taking a short break and then we’ll be back with season 10 (!!!!) on 4 May, reading Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater. We’re returning to the foundational theme of connections. Stay tuned for the full theme list and read along with us!
We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where this episode was recorded - the Guringai and Darug people, and mana whenua of Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai.
Our intro and outro music is by the excellent Scott Buckley. Check him out here.
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