The 'crazy,' 'jealous' woman out for revenge
In 'American Nightmare' and 'Lover, Stalker, Killer,' the misogynistic trope of the 'psycho bitch' drives false alibis and accusations.
I’m afraid we have to look at the trope of the “crazy,” “jealous” woman. Consider two new buzzy true-crime documentaries: American Nightmare and Lover, Stalker, Killer. In the first, an innocent woman, a survivor of kidnapping and rape, is wrongly accused of being a “real-life Gone Girl.” In the second—a case labeled…