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Brainstorming Activity : The "Crazy" Woman Trope

 I watched a few trope’s that interested me and I decided to make my topic on the “crazy” woman trope. I felt that there is a lot to this trope that they mentioned and also that I feel I can add to. I feel through the movies I watched that portray this crazy woman type as well as personal real-life experiences, I will be able to add a lot of good knowledge to this trope.

This video describes the crazy woman to be violent, as well as they mentioned women suffering from mental illnesses. I feel that in a way can be true but television and movies for sure exaggerate the point. Fatal Attraction is a movie that portrays this mentioned “crazy” woman perfectly, Carrie is another great movie to show for this. Her mother psychologically tortures her for going through puberty because of that Carrie went crazy. A more recent show that has done a good job to show this more sympathetic version of a crazy, obsessive woman is Orange Is the New Black. By having Lorna fixated on a man that she barely knows which turns into a nightmare. They do a good job of showing how she is suffering from a medical condition. I think it should be acknowledged that women go through things too. Men like to throw the word crazy around so easily without realizing that they could have driven the woman to react and feel the way she does, or she could really be suffering mentally. I know I can definitely write a lot on this topic.

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