become emblems of failure for their more disciplined and crafty sisters. At worst, unwanted women are freakish aberrations we’re quick to call “bunny boilers,” a term that alludes to Alex Forrest, the spurned woman in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction who leaves her ex-lover’s family pet rabbit in a pot of boiling water; the expression has endured as slang for jealous exes and overzealous aspiring lovers.
