Talk:Psycho-biddy

message: Removed following fragment from article:
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It's apparently been incomplete since the beginning of the article and slid along.  Since I'm not familiar with the movie in question, I leave it here for others to correct. --Mitsukai 16:31, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment 

message: Exactly who coined the phrase "psycho-biddy", wonderful though it is, and when?
User Calibanu: 12.17, 10 November 2006
:It seems to be an original coinage for the wikipedia! All references on the internet lead back to this article! Colin4C 20:22, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I started the wikipedia article, under an anonymous IP address.  When I was first introduced to the genre, a coworker defined it as "psycho-biddy"; when I asked her recently where she heard it from, she says she first heard the term used by myself!  I don't think I coined it, but that's odd, isn't it? :-) Anonymoustom 05:33, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You deserve the credit Anonymoustom! Just don't tell the wikipedia admins or they will start foaming at the mouth and have to be put down...thus creating another Gothic genre: 'Psycho-Admins' Colin4C 20:28, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems almost certain that "Psycho-biddy" is an extension/adaptation/spin-off of the term "Psychobilly", a genre of music. Captain Quirk (talk) 08:54, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins

message: I've never used one of these talk pages, so forgive me if I'm not doing it right.  I just stumbled in here while doing research for a site and saw that this page is in danger of being deleted in a few days because the phrase "psycho-biddy" isn't found outside of wikipedia.  However, the phrase "Grande Dame Guignol" is pretty common, it has exactly the same as meaning as "psycho-biddy" and there's not a page on Wikipedia for it. There's a lot of great content here and I'd hate to see this page deleted, so I'm requesting a move.  I'd do it myself, but I haven't had the greatest track record on this site when it comes to changing things.  VinnieRattolle
*Hmmmm, interesting! If what you're saying is accurate, that sounds doable. Since we have no article by that name, it wouldn't require merging, just changing the name and some of the article contents. It wouldn't be very hard, and it's probably preferable to deletion. Any other opinions? I'll go poke around a bit to verify what you say about "Grand Dame Guignol". Not out of distrust, I'd just like to ascertain its commonality. - Vianello (talk) 08:51, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Is "Grand Dame Guignol" itself used outside of that book, or is it just somebody else's cute turn of phrase like "psycho-biddy?" Can you find examples of film historians discussing the subject? This article might be better merged into another. I think there's a more or less standard name for this kind of post-Psycho crazed killer genre. The age of the characters is not part of it, and truth be told, what we're talking about here is more of a trend that capitalizes on Baby Jane's success and provided filmmakers a way to acquire star-level talent at a discount price. It's not really a genre to itself, and the lead actress' age is the only difference between these and films like...uh, Dementia 13. Dementia13 (talk) 15:27, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: *Tatie Danielle 1990 French black comedy. I hesitate to put it in because it isn't classified as a horror. But she was more twisted than some of the bona fide P-Bs.  If anyone else has seen it and agrees, please add it to the list of examples.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vynbos (talk • contribs) 13:47, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Movie Examples

message: Over the last few years, I've tried twice to add Lady in a Cage as another example of the genre, only to have my edit undone twice.
Lady In A Cage features a mentally unstable woman of advanced years with a somewhat glamorous past. And the premise of the movie is that she is in mortal jeopardy, with another party attempting to drive her to mental instability and possibly kill her.
Any thoughts as to why this movie doesn't fit? PoughkeepsieNative (talk) 00:20, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you provided a reliable source that links the film with psycho-biddy? DonIago (talk) 21:10, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Therein lies the rub. I guess that I feel like saying that Lady In A Cage is of the psycho biddy genre is like saying that Christina Hendricks is full-figured. It's seems that it's self-evident by looking at it/her and comparing it/her to the definition. It doesn't need a source. PoughkeepsieNative (talk) 23:27, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Content that purportedly don't need a source should mean it is so universally and readily verifiable that a source is easily found (like the director of a film). We as Wikipedia editors cannot label a film a specific way if it has never been done by anyone before. We follow sources, provided they exist. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 23:31, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Point taken. I guess that where I struggle with this is that a connection like this can be made in multiple not-considered-credible-on-Wikipedia sites (blogs, tribute pages, etc.) and not be sufficient, yet if just one hack writer on CNN calls Lady In A Cage a psycho-biddy movie, then it's worthy of Wikipedia. PoughkeepsieNative (talk) 00:02, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I rather think that if there was sufficient evidence that the CNN writer was indeed a hack then their claims would subsequently be considered lacking in credibility. DonIago (talk) 05:50, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about "Lady In A Cage"? 

message: Article has been tagged for needing sources long-term. Feel free to reinsert the below material with appropriate references. DonIago (talk) 12:46, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced material