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What is it about western Patriarchy that inscribes gender on women such that they become attracted to true crime and vicious and brutal crime stories? (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do you think this is a phenomenon? And do you think that Patriarchy created this? If so, how? And maybe why?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

female voices tend to be rated higher
podcasts are easy to do
most infamous killers had some weird psycho sexual tendencies that involved women
women are often not taken seriously by police, colleagues, doctors, etc.
possible mix of revenge fantasies + coping by knowing that “it could be worse” + learning from other people’s failures and mistakes to minimize potential victimhood

I sometimes go on a police body cam binge just to keep in my mind what the person did before being murdered by cops and hope I can Remember to avoid it, or imagine ways their attacks towards cops could’ve been successful