Girls on TikTok are lusting over murderers

destineygray · 2021-02-01T10:47:29+00:00

The idolisation of serial killers and mass murderers isn’t a TikTok phenomenon, look at Manson/Ramirez/Bundy; they all had groupies decades before TikTok.

Hybristophilia is a well documented psychological problem, unfortunately this is nothing new.

2021-02-01T07:18:49+00:00

They're young and think they're invincible. They will inevitably learn the consequences of their actions.

2021-02-01T10:42:23+00:00

This is another reason men, as a whole, demonize older women.

We call this crap out and set standards.

Mcccy · 2021-02-01T13:17:01+00:00

It's worse than I remember, when American Horror Story became big every girl at my junior high had a crush on Tate, aka: A blonde School shooter who killed 15 people. :/

Repulsive-Ad1092 · 2021-02-01T10:35:54+00:00

Because ✨tHEy cAn ChANgE thEm✨

SoybeanApocalypse · 2021-02-01T14:47:12+00:00

Never in my life have I understood this. It must be related to having a bad father or something. Not to mention these men are probably manipulative in their own right and know how to use the distance of prison to fake a "get to the heart of a tough guy" romantic illusion. I think these girls are genuinely fooled into thinking they're changing them.

Midcenter · 2021-02-01T15:33:11+00:00

Yeah, I remember when tumblr was a thing there were a lot of girls who idealized serial killers or school shooters. It was cringe then, and it’s cringe now. Makes them feel like they’re hard, not like other girls, projects that they’re “misunderstood.”

PasDeTout · 2021-02-01T20:17:45+00:00

I once worked with a woman who went out with a convicted rapist. He’s so dangerous the police warned her about him. She was essentially a middle class girl trying to annoy her parents. Before him she dated gang members. Fancy ruining your own life just to own your parents. Dye your hair pink when you’re sixteen, listen to loud music and then get over the angsty teen phase. Don’t continue it into your twenties.

Julie Bindel wrote an interesting article about the phenomenon. She noted that there often seemed to be a ‘class’ element in these relationships.

https://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/lifestyle/2012/11/love-death-row-dandy

LevelTurbulent · 2021-02-01T16:25:52+00:00

I honestly don't find this even slightly surprising. Think about how our society pushes forced forgiveness (even for severe abuse), the importance of giving second chances (and third, and fourth, and fifth, and forever), and giving all men a "chance" to date them.

Is it really surprising that young women have put murderers in the acceptable category for dating?

tallwomenneedlovetoo · 2021-02-01T18:06:27+00:00

I’m here with a word on this today. True Crime Genre consumers are overwhelmingly white women. By and large. And they aren’t lusting and obsessing over all types of serial killers, just white men who, not coincidentally, murder white women who look just like them. There are plenty of killers who target brown and black women, however they will never reach the notoriety of Bundy and others because 1) the media (and society at large) doesn’t care about women who don’t look like Natalie Holloway or JonBenet Ramsey and 2) white women can’t Mary Sue themselves into pretending to take the place of non-white women.

As a black woman, it’s a phenomenon that I just cannot wrap my head around. I’m as disgusted by Ted Bundy as I am by Jeffrey Dahmer and I have physically recoiled upon seeing a white woman in her mid-20s proudly showing off her Ted Bundy bite tattoo on her buttock. Meant to replicate the bite he left on one of his sorority house victims.

If I hear a woman bring up True Crime serial killers in a mixer/meet and greet setting, I immediately x her out as a possible friend; it’s appalling that we’re supposed to accept people consuming news of other women’s horrific deaths like it’s sordid gossip tidbits about whether someone’s hair color is natural or not. Absolutely disgusting and it shows a disturbing lack of empathy that I’ll never be able to get over.

Title	Girls on TikTok are lusting over murderers
Author	ReignOnYou95
Upvotes	141
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Date	February 1, 2021 7:05 AM UTC (5 years ago)
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