A panel of experts gathered to discuss our culture's obsession with female "train-wreck" celebs suggests that coverage of women in crisis, like Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse, is more judgmental than that of males with issues - and has the added intent of casting fallen heroines as cautionary tales who have failed to balance work with family and proper womanhood. Ugh. Gross, yet entirely unsurprising.
An excerpt from the article, courtesy of CNN:
But Negra said the coverage of women is more judgmental, casting wayward female celebrities as "cautionary tales." She said coverage of female celebrities is less likely to celebrate a troubled star's triumphant comeback, the way Downey has been lauded for "Iron Man," or Owen Wilson has been shown returning to work after a reported suicide attempt.
"We seem to have a lot more fixed ideas about what women's lives should be like than we do of men," she said.
"When we use female celebrities this way, we see them failing and struggling, they serve as proof that for women the work-life balance is impossible. Can you have it all? The answer these stories give again and again is 'absolutely not.' "
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that said, the real problem here is our cultural deification of Celebrity in the first place.