Empowering women

Although the antiheroine's actions are degrading to women, they allow the protagonist for woment to become empowered by acting as catalysts for transformation. In the "girls gone wild" coming of age story the antiheroine, represented by characters such as Legs/Evie, engage in overt drug use, commit crimes, and purposely are aggressive to display superority over "good girls". These acts themselves are frowned upon in society - degrading the moral character of women. The insecurity of "good girls" such as Tracy/Maddy, attract them to follow the actions of their domineering antiheroine counterparts - thus initiating their process of maturation. Immersed in the dark world of the antiheroine, the protagonist realizes that she has strayed far from her innocent beginnings. She then seeks to redeem her moral character by ending her devious ways and when she accomplishes this she has completed the maturation process with newfound wisdom - becoming an empowered woman.

As I previously stated, it is the the antiheroine's ammoral actions that degrade their status as women. Humanizing this bad girl adds complexity to her character - evoking feelings of sympathy and/or empathy from the audience. We don't feel empowered by their desolate situation, but we feel inclined to save her.