Try and sum up the plot of Legally Blonde, just try.

It defies any easy description, right? Sorority sister Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) is dumped by her good-for-nothing, snobby boyfriend, so out of sheer spite she gets herself into Harvard, excels in all her courses, stuns student body and faculty alike, solves a murder case, lands a super cute, super smart guy and becomes best friends with the ex fiancée of her ex boyfriend (after he graduates with no honours and no friends) to boot.

All that, and she singlehandedly reverses the stereotype of the dumb blonde through her sheer tenacity, perseverance and wit.

How many movies have you seen with that kind of sharp, dedication to tearing down misogynistic clichés? How many female characters have you seen onscreen that are as well drawn as Elle Woods? Not many, we’d hazard to guess. Which is what makes Legally Blonde so revolutionary, as set out in this viral tweet from @harleivy.

This viral tweet shows why Legally Blonde is a truly revolutionary movie