I just want to say the romanticization of white serial killers is one of the worse and most ignored things especially because we donât realize how that language is intentionally meant to absolve guilt, from both the killers and the system.
Using Ted Bundy as an example, thatâs a man who women reported to the police multiple times, he was in and out of jail, people reported him as creepy guy or even told people about attempted kidnappings. He even had a history record of preying on people and had to resort to sneaking around and manipulating people by making himself look puny and pathetic to get his victims. Nonetheless, he was touted as a âbrilliantâ âattractiveâ and âcharaismaticâ man.
You know why?
Well, he was heavily involved in right-wing politics and the police actively ignored/mishandled trials against him. Saying âBundy had a nice and charismatic personalityâ alongside admitting âhe pretended to being disabled or sicklyâ are not coincidences. One of those things is a deflection and the other thing is the truth.
We donât give this behavior to killers of color, rightfully so, if someone is a rapist or a mass murderer and they are people of color, regardless of that we acknowledge that was sick and evil behavior out of a human being and donât attempt to justify. However, when itâs white people who are liars, manipulators and killers we have to rewrite history to ignore the facts â that victims were ignored and looked over â that victims continue to be ignored and looked over.
Itâs not just an âoh teenage girls are weirdos for drooling over serial killersâ issue, thatâs a symptom to the larger problem that white violence is constantly rewritten and glossed over in history and itâs not okay.
Especially relevant now with Ryan Murphy doing a series on Dahmer.
