All the tropes: The ‘Crazy’ Woman
The Take, April 2020
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Hollywood is full of examples of the, quote, ‘crazy’ woman, an uncontrollable, dangerous woman, who’s often equal parts mesmerising and terrifying. Though in recent years, there have been more nuanced depictions of women with personality disorders onscreen, mental illness is a difficult topic to portray accurately in stories written for entertainment. And just as the label “crazy” is itself pretty offensive, there remain many problematic or reductive versions of this trope. But looking at how film and TV have portrayed the so-called ‘crazy woman’ through the years can tell us a lot about what mainstream society sees as threatening and deviant, especially in females.