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A Woman Scorned

Do modern gals enact revenge?

Mental Floss has a juicy top-five list up: "Five Scorned Women Get Their Revenge." But it's a chin-scratcher! Yeah, yeah, we understand Mental Floss is all smart and stuff, but we're unfamiliar with almost all of historical these tales of revenge. Boudicca? Lady Mao? The Chochiti tribe? I'm sorry, who?

Maybe Mental Floss had no choice but to dip way far back into both history and obscurity. Despite the adage "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," there aren't a lot of contemporary examples -- other than the extreme ones, like Lorena Bobbitt and Ivana "Don't get mad, get everything" Trump. But damned if I'm ever going to let a member of the Trump family serve as an example for anything. (I, for one, almost stuff the contents of a takeout sushi dinner in ex's dresser drawers after being dumped -- but emphasis on the almost!)

No, a stiff upper lip seems to be the way, especially if you're a politico's wife: Hillary Clinton, Silda Spitzer, Dina Matos McGreevy, Cecilia Sarkokzy.

Even actresses, who are given freer emotional range than the "wife of..." types, seem pretty composed in the face of a low-down, rotten, cheatin' dog: think Uma Thurman (the ex: Ethan Hawke), Jennifer Aniston (the ex: Brad Pitt), and Mary-Louise Parker (the ex: Billy Crudup).

Help us...ladies on "reality" dating shows notwithstanding, can you think of contemporary scorned women who made sure there was hell to pay? Or are we right, and this stereotype's outdated?

Can you relate?

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datehazard Single
Posted February 23, 2009

I can think of a one. The woman outed the man on Facebook for his cheating ways, posting on his wall and making him have to cancel his account. All of his work colleagues and high school friends read the detailed post.

But what about men getting even? There's got to be stories, too.

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Posted July 29, 2008

Am I nuts or didn't we all just read about Christie Brinkley very publicly humiliating her ex-husband in the divorce trial and subsequent settlement?

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