Boys can’t do a thing unless they can look cool?

There’s a big push in media representation that scientific girls are nerdy and not focused on their looks. Having that opposite representation showing that scientists can be pretty too is important. It shows that girls who are focused on their looks can totally be smart too. Not just to be a role model to young women but to help show men that pretty women have a brain and need to be taken seriously. This was the entire plot of legally blonde.