Whether a woman or even a young girl is considered 'wrong' strongly depends on cultural, moral, and social norms. A shocking example in this context is the rejection by parents and anti-LGBTI groups in Texas of the comic book based on Anne Frank's diary. Anne Frank writes in her diary about genitals and her desire to touch a friend's breasts, and these passages are depicted in the comic book. Moms for Liberty, a conservative interest group, argued that the work violated the 'state standards for accurately teaching the Holocaust.' The book has been removed from the library, banned in some schools, and the teacher who had her 14-year-old students read these passages has been fired. With this action, both Anne Frank and the teacher are labeled as 'wrong.' Women are easily deemed 'wrong' by puritans if they express their sexuality or expose young people to it.

Bad and wrong women are often portrayed as caricatures. Roeland Dobbelaer has made a number of very readable comments about this phenomenon in his review of The Women of John Steinbeck (https://bazarow.com/recensie/ten-oosten-van-eden/). In the many nineteenth-century Russian novels, he finds the female characters irrational, morbid and hysterical. The downtrodden women are only out to seduce and demean men. John Steinbeck's wives, on the other hand, are pious, strictly Protestant, and devoted to husband and family or sluts who ruin men. But there is also a lot wrong with the 'good women'. According to Dobbelaer they are disturbed, religiously insane or they withhold men their pleasures (sic!). Cathy Ames, the character who appears in many lists of bad women in literature, is portrayed by Steinbeck as a woman without morals and empathy, the devil personified.