I, Tonya. The Outsider Finally Gets Her Rewards.

Marky Billson
5 min readMay 22, 2019

After finally seeing I, Tonya this weekend, I finally realized why I always liked Tonya Harding, now Tonya Price.

She is a figure who appeals to everyone who has been an outsider, who had a rough edge, who received a bad break.

In many ways she represents the reasons why people are afraid to try. Dream pursuit is not easy, and despite the belief that if we just try hard enough we’ll make it, there are often outside factors or choices we make due to our own naivety that not only have us failing to achieve our goal, but get…

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