Newsflash: We all deserve respect no matter what clothes we have on.
When they taught us that the treatment we get depends on our outfit.
Remember how, in Pretty Woman, no one respected the protagonist because of the way she dressed, but when she put on a pretty dress, everything changed? She even finds love! WOW! Newsflash: We all deserve respect no matter what clothes we have on.
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When they told us that, to be loved by someone, we have to change our personality.
In Grease, Sandy is smart, pretty, and kind, but then she becomes everything she's not just to fit in with a group and be liked by a nasty guy at her school.
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When they insinuated that we have to play dumb in order to be loved.
Cher, from Clueless, is an exaggeration of the dumb girl stereotype. She's not even dumb, actually, which makes it all the more awful. Having to pretend that she's ignorant just so that she doesn't come across as presumptuous (because no one wants a confident woman, ugh) is just wrong.
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When they told us that we working ladies are bitter and that only a man can save us.
Sandra Bullock in The Proposal is a successful, empowered woman with a good job who, of course, finds herself in a rough patch and remains bitter until she finds a man to change her life around and make her happy once again. Ugh.
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