Girlism's Bad Guy

In both movies, Legally Blonde II and Charlies Angels II, the bad guy is a woman. An older woman. A woman that looks a lot like ... dare I say it ... yes, a feminist. In the first movie, Sally Fields plays the powerful woman senator who is a sell-out. Her dirty deed? She turns on her own staff to make a selfish, self-serving deal behind closed doors that later gets revealed. How does the younger woman slay this monster? By using her all-girl network to bring her down.

In the second movie, the three angels go up against another woman bad guy -- this time Demi Moore -- a former and fallen angel. Also a feminist-type character. What's their grievance against her? Well, she has done some out-and-out evil deeds, but in particular, she's turned against Charlie and against other women. She has a dialogue with Natalie, played by Cameron Diaz, mentioning that Charlie's not her boss anymore, she works for herself. Diaz's reply, "Your boss sucks." At the very end of the movie, the two face off alone. They take it to the mat and it looks like Demi Moore is about to kick Diaz's exceptionally cute butt. Then the tables turn as Diaz tells her, "I've got something you'll never have!" Moore looks bored, "Oh, yeah, what?!" Diaz delivers the news, "FRIENDS!" just as the other angels creep up behind Moore, arriving on the scene in the nick of time and the three of them take Demi Moore out.

In both movies, the younger women call on a network of their girlfriends to save the day. In both movies the older feminist woman falters by turning her back on her friends and colleagues. If Girlism is about anything, it's about women getting their power from loving their women friends and loving men.