

From https://artincontext.org/the-cursed-woman-painting-by-tassaert/
The title can possibly refer to prejudices related to women and their open sexuality during the 1800s; in other words, a woman so open and free is “damned” because she is not chaste or coy.





I used to work at Best Buy waaay back in the day. They would advertise stuff like buy a $1500 TV and get 0% interest for 2 years. But the fine print was exactly like you just described. You could make 23 of 24 payments on time, but if you were late they would hit you with 20+% interest compounding based off the entire loan amount.
So if you missed just one payment you’d get hit with like a $500 bill.