/r/serialkillers, /r/truecrime, /r/missingperson, /r/CrimeScene all have 60-75% female subscribers (~70-90% when correcting for the overall male surplus on Reddit). /r/myfavoritemurder is 87% female

DepressedBrazilian · 2019-01-14T15:07:21+00:00

This is fucking gold

SophisticatedBean · 2019-01-14T15:23:43+00:00

/r/police is 11.3% female, rendering it implausible that interest in law enforcement and justice causes this pattern.

Links to the mentioned subs and more:

Subreddit	females	females (corrected)
/r/myfavoritemurder	86.9%	93.7%
/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion	76.4%	87.8%
/r/TrueCrime	75.8%	87.5%
/r/criminalminds	67.7%	82.3%
/r/MissingPersons	67.2%	82.0%
/r/unresolvedmysteries	55.8% (65%)	80.5%
/r/CrimeScene	62.6%	78.8%
/r/serialkillers	56.9%	74.6%

Correcting for 31/69 sex ratio on Reddit by x' = (x / 31) / ((x / 31) + ((100 - x) / (100 - 31))).

Edit: It should be noted that /r/myfavoritemurder is a podcast with female hosts.

DataEast1 · 2019-01-14T15:56:52+00:00

Is this why I know a lot of middle aged women who love to watch the ID Channel, Lifetime, Forensic Files and other things having to do with men harming women?

DataEast1 · 2019-01-14T15:07:37+00:00

Things women like: (in order of importance) Themselves, Chad, Drama, Themselves, Things that look cute®, Abuse; Things they Hate: Everything that requires +IQ, Not-chads, Not-foids.

CavsJintsNiners · 2019-01-15T04:46:18+00:00

I wish r/FatPeopleHate didn’t get nuked all those years ago because I remember that subreddit was female dominated too. Unfortunately there seems to be no way of verifying that now.

crestind · 2019-01-14T18:20:56+00:00

the myfavoritemurder subreddit banner features two female snoos and a cat. What?

shadowcel · 2019-02-09T14:51:03+00:00

Anytime you hear a wymyn say that she finds serial killers interesting, she is attracted to them but doesn’t want to admit it.

onefornothing · 2019-04-01T11:21:25+00:00

quick google search reveals a few articles claiming women spent their lives with a perpetual background fear of death, rape and violence and that they subconsciously seek out this genre to better deal with the possibility of a real life traumatic event.

This explanation sounds weak to me and certainly doesn't explain the appeal of tv shows like the netflix thriller-romance hit ''you''.

wonderdog8888 · 2019-01-14T18:17:10+00:00

Where did they get this info ? I don’t see anything in a profile that denotes the sex of a subscriber

SophisticatedBean · 2019-01-14T19:05:22+00:00

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PenileFacial-Surgery · 2019-01-22T06:41:54+00:00

Just fucking lol, of course

2019-05-30T19:05:52+00:00

The dark-as-fuck pill.

TakeTimeAway · 2019-01-18T18:01:16+00:00

You don't pick a gender when starting a reddit profile tho.

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