Paige McLoughlin’s Reviews > Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why > Status Update

Monica Lewinsky and the danger of powerful men and the spotlight.

The Trainwrecks' options are never good: either hide from the spotlight or speak out against the injustice of her plight; both are no-win situations.

Courtney Love, who gets a lot of hate for surviving Kurt Cobain, and Valerie Solanis, who shot Andy Warhol.

Charlotte Brontë is the next character who was independent and moody. Another woman who scandalized her peers.

The scandalized trainwreck dates back to at least Mary Wollstonecraft. Although now part of the Western canon, she was a bad girl who, during her short life, shocked upper-class Britain with her sex life and cavorting with left-wing democrats of her time.

First glance at the trainwreck, a woman having an episode in the spotlight. Engaging in behavior that might get a man lionized as a "bad boy" makes a woman a crazy bitch ass trainwreck.