![]() Yet I can’t help but wonder how this harried move to undo a binary understanding of these women has only reinforced another extreme. Call it a post-#MeToo benefit or just a long overdue course correction, but on the most basic level, how can we not crave it? Alas, it’s not as though we’re short of women who deserve the chance to tell their own stories and fight back against disgraceful cruelty for profit and pleasure. ![]() It’s easy to forget just how steeped in the rot of institutionalized misogyny we all are, left to breathe in its smog with no other options. This is obviously a welcome trend, belated though it may be. That’s how Jessica Chastain won her Oscar for giving Tammy Faye a sympathetic glance. It’s now almost its own cliché, to stop the sexist force in its track and combat it with a more empathetic recontextualizing of events. Podcasts detailed how wrong we were about Princess Diana, Karen Carpenter, Lindsay Lohan, and many others. Monica Lewinsky thoroughly regained control of the narrative of her life from years of political scorn and mockery. ![]() We sheepishly confronted myriad ways we contributed to the breakdown of Britney Spears. For several years now, we’ve seen cultural redemption arcs for some of the most derided and maligned women in the public eye of the past few decades. The reassessment of Pamela Anderson is something that feels a long time coming.
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