[ SECRET POST #6454 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6454 ⌋

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04. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]




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[Dr. Becky/YouTube]



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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not to invalidate your point at all, but I often do listen to/read true crime because I'm more interested in the victim's story. Not that I'm opposed to a good lurid serial killer bio, but when I get really into true crime, it's because I feel like my life is shit and only getting worse, and I just want to hear a story about somebody having a worse day than I am and be all cathartic about it. I often stick to "unsolved" stuff because I know that means I won't have to sit through any boring stuff about the killer.

(Even leaving aside the "crime victim" part, victim-focused true crime is one of the only places you get lots of detailed stories of incredibly ordinary people having incredibly ordinary lives; most other stuff is carefully curated to clean up the messy and/or boring and/or ugly and/or nonsensical parts, even if it's supposed to be "ordinary".)

That said, I often find the stuff that focuses on the victims feels way more exploitative than the stuff that focuses on the killers. Like I don't give a damn if someone violated Jeffery Dahmer's privacy or wrote an unfairly unflattering portrait of Charles Manson, but average person who had a very bad day doesn't actually deserve that.