성종 시대인 1479년에 단행된 왕비 윤씨의 폐출과 이어진 사사(賜死)과 1480년의 어을우동(於乙于同) 처형은 연결고리가 발견되고 있다. 성리학 이념이 정착되는 사회를 지향하는 성종의 치세에 터진 폐비 윤씨와 어을우동 사건은 성종으로 하여금 결단을 요구하게 했다. 왕이 후궁을 가까이 한다고 이를 투기하고 왕에게 손찌검까지 한 왕비의 기행은 성종에게 특단의 조치를 가하게 했다. 왕실의 후손과 혼인한 양반 양반집 부인 어을우동이 양반은 물론이고 천한 신분의 사람들과 정을 통하다가 물의를 일으킨 것 또한 큰 사회 문제였다. 성종이 왕비 윤씨에게 사약을 내리고 어을우동을 처형한 명분은 조선의 사회 풍속과 기강을 바로잡는 데 있었다. 성종은 조선 전기 문물과 제도의 정비에 힘을 쓰는 한편 성리학의 이념을 본격적으로 전파하고 수용하려고 노력한 왕이었다. 이러한 상황에서 터진 폐비 윤씨의 투기와 어을우동 스캔들은 성리학의 이념 전파에 걸림돌이 되었고, 성종은 이들을 극형에 처하였다. 신하들의 반대도 있었지만, 성종은 이들의 처벌을 시범 삼아 성리학 이념을 정착시키려는 의지가 강하였다. 당시 대비였던 인수대비의 역할도 컸다. 두 여인은 성리학 이념이 본격적으로 구현되는 국가를 만들어 가겠다는 시대의 희생양으로도 볼 수가 있다.

Queen Yun, who was the wife of King Seongjong of Choson, was deposed and capital punished in 1479, and in the next year, 1480, another female named Eoeuludong(於乙于同) was capital punishied too. In retrospect, there seems to have been a connection between these two seemingly separated incidents. Seongjong was a king who greatly aspired for a Neo-Confucian society, and scandals surrounding both Queen Yun and Eoeuludong greatly offended him. Queen Yun, who suspected that the king was loving another royal concubine more than herself, committed out of jealousy the unthinkable crime of slapping the king in the face, and Seongjong had to take a definitive action in response. Meanwhile, Eoeuludong was a wife of a Yangban figure from a house that also had a marital relationship with the Joseoni royal family. Yet she did not hesitate to have free sexual relationships with not only Yangban figures but commoners and slaves as well, so something had to be done as well. The official cause for having deposed Queen Yun put to death and capital punishing Eoeuludong was to establish just social norms and appropriate discipline. Seongjong had been trying to renovate institutions and rules, while spreading the teachings of Neo-Confucianism throughout the society. The jealousy of Queen Yun and the scandalous affairs of Eoeuludong were seriously impeding Seongjong's efforts, and he had no other choice but to deal with them with the deadliest means at his disposal. Some of his vassals were against such drastic measures, but Seongjong was determined to use these two females as examples whose sorts of actions would not be allowed in a Neo-Confucian society he was trying to create. At that moment, there was the mother of King Seongjong, Insu effects on the affair, In other words, these two females were sacrificed in a rather ideological campaign.