Can you remember why it was that they made you swoon as a kid? I didn't actually see My Fair Lady until I was a young adult, but I think I accepted it when I first saw it because I bought into the buffed-up, shinier self that Eliza became. (Also, it was funny.) Plus, in the film she does fight back a bit, and if Henry Higgins doesn't change much, at least he's forced to deal with the fact that Eliza has feelings.

But with Grease, I just disliked her look when she was transformed at the end. I identified much more with the quiet good girl. For me, that type was the put-upon type. I didn't realize, as a kid, that the tough girls get all sorts of grief, too. Thinking about it now, I can see how affirming it could be, for a tough girl, to have the transformation work the way it did.