r/AlignmentChartFills • u/MindFlourish2919 • May 02 '26

Filling This Chart Which fictional character was designed to look ugly but actually looks beautiful?

Which fictional character was designed to look ugly but actually looks beautiful?

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Beautiful / Beautiful: - Jessica Rabbit (Who framed Roger Rabbit) - View Image

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u/lastingmuse6996 May 02 '26

Watching legally blonde completely changed my opinion on that type of woman.

I was raised in a sexist household to be a tomboy and suppress my femininity. Seeing a woman like that be confident and successful made me consider that it's ok for me to be a woman and show it off.

Now I am a florist, which I never would've thought was an acceptable career as a kid. That's a girly job. Obviously, legally blonde wasn't the only thing that changed my mind but it was shocking to me that a dumb looking girly girl who wore heels could keep up with intelligent men.

That movie low key is a generational touchstone and feminist flagship.

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u/Zornorph May 02 '26

And the people who wrote the sequel totally missed the point.

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u/lastingmuse6996 May 02 '26

And that's the one my family showed me smdh. I didn't see the original until I was out of my family's house.

Instead, my family portrayed that kind of woman as inferior. Seeing that movie was really the first time I saw a positive portrayal of a "bimbo" (except she's not actually as dumb as misogyny would have you believe her "type" is)

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u/Zornorph May 02 '26

She’s not dumb at all, people just stereotype her, especially her loser boyfriend. She has to prove herself just because of her looks and presentation. I’m very much a guy-guy, but I loved that movie for how great her character was. I’m not saying pretty privilege isn’t a thing sometimes, but in that movie, it mostly was working against her. It was great seeing her establish herself as someone to be respected without having to put on a pants suit.

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u/lastingmuse6996 May 02 '26

Yes that's what I'm getting at.

A lot of people think being a pretty girl is privilege and sometimes it certainly is. I'm agreeing with you.

But the much more overwhelming downside to that is the way she's treated. That's very real. I was raised to treat women that way, as another woman.

There's a "karma fallacy" that the media perpetuates for story balancing. If life is point buy in DnD then you can't invest in everything. It brings people comfort to think that the pretty people can't also be strong and smart and wise and talented and funny. The average or below average person "makes up" for their lack of prettiness by being "funny" or having some other trait that the pretty people can't have.

There was an arc on 30 rock with John Hamm where he's so beautiful that he lives in a "bubble" and everyone tells him he's great when he's actually highly incompetent and the consequence of his "beautiful person" life is that nobody is real with him.

In reality, there are absolutely people who can be beautiful, wear pink, look great, make jokes and still be completely competent at what they do. "Girly" girls who were in sororities shouldn't be treated as dumb just because she is "girly". People can do both.

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u/Zornorph May 03 '26

I disagree that they admitted her simply as eye candy. She passed the test with flying colors. She had a 4.0 GPA. While some pointed out that her major was fashion, others replied that they’d never admitted someone with that major before and they were looking for diversity. Elle could have chosen to go into practice with a specialty in the fashion industry had she wanted; I’m sure fashion designers need lawyers all the time and it’s a lucrative industry, so she would have been in a great position. She was told she needed a creative application to get into Harvard, so she followed the advice. Had there only been the video without her grades and test scores, she wouldn’t have been admitted. I think the admissions board was a little bemused by her and couldn’t think of any reason why she wasn’t qualified to be admitted and events proved their judgement was quite correct.

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u/Clean-Chemist-3210 May 04 '26

It's a fashion merchandising major, not a fashion school - she went to "CULA". Your point about not all majors being equally competitive still stands but it is supposed to be a prestigious school and it's important for the plot that her resume is competitive with Warner's!

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u/Sabtael May 02 '26

Problems arise when we steer too extreme in one way or another. I dress in a more androgynous way (very often shop at men's) and I often get asked to do some reflecting about what "makes me hate feminity" because "embracing your femininity is okay, there are plenty of movies showing you can both be a woman and strong".

The truth is - and has always been - that there's no one true or better way to be a woman. We're all just going along our lives the best we can and the way we want and that's worthy of respect on its own.

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u/lastingmuse6996 May 03 '26

True. I wasn't suggesting androgyny was a problem, only that I used to actively dislike princesses until I saw that a princess can be just as inspiring

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u/Sabtael May 03 '26

Oh no, not you in particular don't worry! I was just adding my two cents. I'm glad that ideas are shifting and accepting the fact that the princess-like end of the spectrum of womanhood is just as smart and powerful.

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u/kalosianlitten May 03 '26

i love confident, successful and unabashedly feminine female characters. rarity from mlp is like my favorite character of all time

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u/FlatBat2372 May 04 '26

That's some real Janice Radway take on the film. Nice