Female Characters that Deserve a Giant Bitch Slap

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Top Ten Female Characters that Deserve a Giant Bitch Slap

1. Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.  She was a complete control freak, drunk with her own power, and had absolutely no patience for anyone's opinion but her own.  I believe she was had no conscience whatsoever.
2. Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger.  The consummate evil boss.
3. Barbara Covett from Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller.  She was the most judgmental, duplicitous person, and yet she viewed herself as above reproach.  She always had an ulterior motive, and this was particularly evident in how she befriended others and then slowly eroded them from the inside out.  Creepy and obsessive.
4. Elizabeth Gilbert from Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.  Not mean, but whiny, self-obsessed, and snobby.  She deserves a bitch slap just to bring her down a peg or two.
5. Hilly Holbrook from The Help by Kathryn Stockett.  She embodied every bad Southern stereotype, she was the ultimate two-face who would not hesitate to throw anyone (even her own family) under the bus, and when she was crossed (especially by someone she viewed as inferior) she was very, very dangerous.
6. Nellie Olsen from Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  The original bratty, spoiled child who believed the world revolved around her.  She was inherently mean, and treated everyone - parents included - shabbily.  When she acted nice, which was rare, it was with an ulterior motive borne out of selfishness.
7. Dolores Umbridge & Bellatrix LeStrange from Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling.  Anyone who 1) followed Lord Voldemort, 2) delighted in torturing others, 3) bragged about killing people, or 4) basically embodied EVIL really should be at the top of any list of mean literary characters.
8. Aunt Spiker & Aunt Sponge from James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.  Caricatures for sure, but both are repulsive in every way...they are cruel, greedy (Aunt Sponge), vain, malicious, selfish, and they take great pleasure in tormenting James.
9. Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians by Justine Korman.  Mean, mean, mean.
10. Stepmother & Ugly Stepsisters in Cinderella.  Again, caricatures meant to hyperbolize nastiness, but certainly some of the most recognizable meanies in all of literature.