There's a special place in hell for women like Olivia Nuzzi -- whose career as a journalist is over

Olivia Nuzzi's book "American Canto" was released this week and panned by critics. AFP via Getty Images

There’s a reason that women like Olivia Nuzzi used to be shunned by polite society in more orderly times.

Any woman who sets her sights on a married man is making a deliberate, selfish choice to cause pain to another woman. This is not a sisterly act.

Through history, women who make enemies of other women are seen as lethal to the tribe’s cohesion and cast out. That’s the way it was when shame existed, and genteel social norms had replaced stoning or drowning or other horrors the medieval world bestowed on women.

But social punishment still exists and is no less brutal than in the days of the crucible.

In a form of reverse shunning, Nuzzi is granted the spotlight she craves for