Jackie vs. Marilyn

    I know it's been awhile school has been getting the best of me... Hahaha who am I kidding? Partying has been getting the best of me and because of that school has taken a back seat. I spent the last week playing catch-up. 
    So anyway last night while finishing up an art history paper on the fashion of the Roman world one of the greatest movies of all time was on TV. Legally Blonde. Not only is it a great movie, but it is one of the only blonde empowering movies out there and as a bleach blonde myself that's instant brownie points. 
   Most of you probably know the movie and I'm not here to summarize, but in the beginning Warner is breaking up with Elle over dinner and of course she causes a scene. However, it is the reason he gives her that I bring up today.

            He tells her "I need a Jackie not a Marilyn." 

   Of course he is referring to Jackie Onassis and Marilyn Monroe. Two very influential women of their time in two very different ways. One the trophy wife of a Kennedy and the other a movie star known for her various romances. 
     OK fine every one has different taste in women, but to compare them in this manner is seriously upsetting. When our world sinks to comparing these iconic women to every day women we are left we unattainable goals. Not to mention these women had their fair share of problems in their own life. 

   Why must women think the have to live up to the standards of a world that has long ago left us. We longer are forced into the kitchen by the government propaganda  June Cleaver. If we make the men in our life a sandwich it is because we choose to do so. Our free will is present in every decision we make followed by our desire to please our man. These women made their own decisions and stood tall in the eye of the public. The sandwiches they made were for the women who would come after them. 
   We long to be accepted, loved, and appreciated. We want to be like Tammy and stand by our man, like Jackie and be strong, fashionable and face the spot light of scandal with a smile, and most of all like Marilyn we want to be everything a woman is supposed to be and do it while being sexy. 
    The balance is hard but not impossible. Women of the world do not be discouraged your place in society is uniquely yours just as it was Jackie's and Marilyn's.