The repetitive screen time for Paulette’s Beauty Parlor illustrates the fatuous stereotype that women simply go to beauty salons for gossip and to discuss the opposite sex. It is easily understood that the scenes involving the beauty shop empower women and unite those of different body types, skin tones, class, and archetypes, especially Bend and Snap; however, it is still palpable that the hair salon scenes are purely parts that perpetuate stereotypes.. As reported in Jennifer Scanlon’s editorial, “It was an all-female society--no man would dare enter the place--and here, if nowhere else, women said what they thought about men” (qtd in Scanlon). Although media should extol the empowerment that films and musicals provide for females, the cliched concepts throughout the span of the performances chiefly display negative assumptions about femininity. For example, during the scene revolving around Bend and Snap, the fact that Elle taught Paulette such a move was simply to attract a UPS delivery man named Kyle.…