#**truecrime

[aimmyarrowshigh]

me, a person who feels so protective over the memories/dignities/bodies of famous female murder victims that the idea of literally any man talking about them makes me start to foam at the mouth with rage, upon seeing photos from goddamn motherfucking misogynist terrormonger quentin buttsucker nightmare talentless hack has-a-career-solely-because-he-has-a-penis-and-is-white tarantino’s latest blood-and-gore-fest exploitation of the dead bodies of real women who deserved better and STILL deserve better and deserve better every GODDAMN DAY WE ALL NEED TO DO BETTER BY THEM EVERY TIME WE TALK ABOUT THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY, start to filter through the blacklisting on my dash:

#THE LAST PERSON ON THE ENTIRE PLANET EARTH WHO SHOULD BE MAKING A MOVIE ABOUT THE DEATHS AT CIELO DRIVE #IS GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING QUENTIN GODDAMN TARANTINO #DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED #I DON'T HAVE TIME TO GET STARTED ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I'M ON MY WAY TO A VERY FANCY WEDDING AT AN AQUARIUM #BUT I SPEND 99% OF MY TIME IN REAL LIFE LISTENING TO AND READING AND WATCHING WOMAN-CURATED AND WOMAN-WRITTEN TRUE CRIME NONFICTION FOCUSED #N INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE GENDERED VIOLENCE ABUSE PATTERNS AND/OR VICTIMS' ADVOCACY AND #I HAVE A LOT OF GODDAMN FEELINGS ABOUT THE WAY THAT HOLLYWOOD ET AL HAS TAKEN 'WOMEN LIKE TRUE CRIME PODCASTS BY WOMEN??? LET'S GIVE MOVIES #ABOUT SERIAL KILLER MEN TO MEN TO MAKE MOVIES! THAT GLORIFY SCARY MEN!!!!!!!!!!!!' AND IT'S #BULLSHIT IT'S BULLSHIT #THE ENTIRE NARRATIVE FRAMING OF CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY IN AMERICA IS BROKEN AND i don't have time to get into this but SUFFICE TO SAY PROTECT #SHARON TATE'S MEMORY SHE DESERVES BETTER #AND FUCK QUENTIN TARANTINO I HOPE HE CHOKES TO DEATH ON HIS OWN FAKE BLOOD PACKS

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anyone:

me: *rants for 76 straight hours about how much i hate every aspect of the spectacle/historiography/fetishization of the murder of elizabeth short, especially the name ‘black dahlia’

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LESBIAN WEDDING PROPOSAL AT THE END OF THIS WEEK’S MFM EPISODE I’VE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER IN MY ENTIRE LIFE

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mindhunter the tv show, like mindhunter the book, and john douglas in general as a thought-shaper in culture, really drives home what i fucking hate about the current methods and ideas of criminal psychology:

racist, misogynistic, upper-middle-class, conservative white men studied even more racist, misogynistic, lower-class, conservative white men and then decided that their views could be extrapolated to all people. it inherently reinforces the power dynamics that rapists/serial killers/intimate partner abusers/family annihilators/bias murderers have internalized with their lack of empathy, and that will never be any actual, helpful barometer for preventing future victimization of the marginalized.

also in that vein: is anyone listening to either “cults” or “serial killers” on parcast? because even as much as i am fucking fascinated by cults -- like, part of me wishes that i’d done my undergrad thesis on cults in popular culture, but i didn’t -- I CANNOT STAND THEIR METHODOLOGY. i don’t fucking care about why the cult LEADERS did their shit! their victims and followers shouldn’t be footnotes! they’re the whole story! cult leaders are the boring part; even their belief system isn’t the interesting part -- the people who NEEDED the cult, in their minds, to survive, are the story. GODDAMMIT.

THIS IS WHY I NORMALLY ONLY CONSUME TRUE CRIME MEDIA BY WOMEN. MEN ARE JUST BAD AT EVERYTHING.

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@idabae-wells replied to your post: “mindhunter the tv show, like mindhunter the book, and john douglas in...”:

I'm waiting for a black woman to do true crime stuff. Too many white women run Dylan Roof fan blogs

Yeahhh... I don't trust anyone whose interest is more about the doer than the done-to. I don't give a shit about the killers (as with cult leaders), I care about the memories of the people they killed and how they can be posthumously given back their humanity. Unfortunately, most true crime seems to be more about revictimizing them than giving them a voice. And I read something recently by a Black true crime writer about how white criminal psychology being applied to majority-Black community crimes causes an increased # of victims... I'll try to remember the link. I also read something recently about the racist media narrative surrounding Mitrice Richardson that made me cry... I think it was on Medium? I can't remember 100% but it was probably on Medium.

tl;dr, I agree with you, and I also feel like white people have no right to the stories of how non-white people die, in the same vein as my anger about men coopting women's (and children's) deaths for their own gain. Same with queer deaths and straight media producers, tbh, and Jews and goyim. Even though I've known for ages how biased I felt like men writing about women's deaths inherently is, my world was rocked when I finally found a book by a gay historian writing about the death of a closeted gay man... like, intellectually I probably would have said that straight people would have a bias, but I'm always surprised somehow when I get reminded... idk emotions about things. Basically, even though I don't believe in ~telling people what they can or can't do~ I feel like there should probably be at least an unspoken rule that you can't write about the real-life victimization of someone whose marginalization(s) you don't share, because even at a word-composition level, the writing will reflect the kyriarchy and not give the victims their due justice and memory.

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@nooradeservedbetter replied to your post: “mindhunter the tv show, like mindhunter the book, and john douglas in...”:

you just helped me make up my mind about whether to watch mindhunter or not. even with anna torv in it

Honestly, it's not worth it. You can practically see Fincher reveling in the dehumanization of real women off in the corner. There's something supremely skeevy to me about the choice to fictionalize the protagonists (FBI agents) but use real serial killers and their victims as the stories. I feel like you either need to commit to fiction or to nonfiction for this kind of story. Either you've gotta show how corrupt Douglas was in real life, too -- which he was -- or you've gotta not get some actor to pretend to be Ed Kemper glorifying his choice to fuck disembodied heads of actual real women who actually really existed and did not consent to be turned into "fictional" entertainment. Enough fucking choices were taken away from them.

Men have no right to the stories of how women die.

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who wants to talk about “mommy dead and dearest” bc honestly i didn’t learn anything new about that case but also every single thing is so What The Fuck that my mind is still boggled