True for sure. If I remember correctly (and I may not) that's how they finally found him...a few women who were creeped the fuck out and refused a ride or whatever. Also true that women are taught not to refuse chivalry (at least from a decently-dressed white guy).

People are fascinated by these killers because they exist beyond the bounds of “normal” behavior and we want to know why. We want to maybe reassure ourselves that we’re not evil, they are monsters but not us, no siree. There’s something wrong with them...but we’re ok. We want to think there is some hard boundary…

Depends on who you ask though. I’ve read (and of course I can’t find it now) that women knew he was a creep and he was dumb at the time. One of them said he was a nose picker!

I am guilty of being THE audience for this kind of stuff. I watch (and read) serial killer crap and have since I was in junior high school. Much has been written about the phenomenal interest in the “genre,” and I’m not sure it’s all about the readers and viewers being bad people. (I’m agreeing with everything you’ve…

Seconded, particularly because if you actually listen and look at serial killers — even the super interesting splashy “charming” or I-used-to-dress-up-as-a-clown ones — their lives are a combination of childhood trauma and early-adult narcissistic delusions of grandeur that come up against a wall of staggering…

Not to apologize for this genre, which is certainly icky, but isn’t it a pretty well-established fact (from cops, witnesses and people who knew him socially) that Bundy was fairly charming and good-looking (though it’s amazing what was considered hot in the 70s), and that’s why he was able to talk women into going…

What I can’t stand about the mythologizing of serial killers is the prevailing belief that they must be “special” to have been able to kill x number of people or a real genius to be able to get away with it.

I’ve been around here long enough that this isn’t the first pass at this story I’ve read ... but this is the best effort to date.

Ancient hygiene?

has done away with Victorian niceties and just said the damn thing.

There is a cop like this in every town in the South. I can tell you an incident in which I reported my former partner, a white man in his 50's, for requesting oral sex from an offender in order to get a longer curfew. I can tell you of an incident in which an officer granted early parole releases for those that would…

Every time I see a post about Lea Michele I reminded of the time she was on the red carpet for one of the premieres of American Horror Story and Jessica Lange totally ignored her as she walked by and in the moment you can see in Michele’s eyes her very soul leave her body.

Was there anything good to come out of this cursed show? I feel like a racist bully is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s the death from overdose. The spousal abuse. The tragic boating accident. Worst of all, the prolific child porn collector/ pedophile.

Thank you. I rewatched MASH a few years ago as an adult. Not only did it not age well, that shit wasn’t funny in the 1970s when it was made and the 1950s when it was supposed to occur. The womanizing and sexism were so obvious and prominent, that show didn’t have much else going for it aside from the war and whatever…

Daniel Sloss, who is of course not as famous as Rogan, has a whole chunk of his stand up dedicated to how terrible some of the things he used to believe and think used to be, and why it’s important to recognize that they were terrible in order to learn from them.

As with most ‘innovations’ of the tech industry, I fucking hate everything about this. Tech companies are trying really hard to make some sort of new ‘aspirational’ lifestyle where you:

I’m not really sure who these “communities” are supposed to be for. My partner and I are maybe in, or adjacent to, their stated demographic (income- wise, potentially mobile, working in tech, etc). I don’t really know anyone who would want to go to a cheese or wine tasting in a communal room in a glorified apartment…

I was also on my early 20s. I ignored it when it came out, but finally allowed myself to be talked into it, and have spent the last... Oh, God, literally twenty years evangelizing it to people who have mostly refused to even give it a shot. The soundtrack, incidentally, is excellent, too.

I went to Josie and the Pussycats because it was free. I said no and my uncle said I will by your ticket, your niece wants to go please don’t make me go alone. So I went. I spent the entire movie being stared at like a lunatic because I thought the movie was funny as hell. I am happy the movie is finally getting the…

I want to go back and live in the parallel universe where movie critics are women and praise this, Jennifer’s Body, and other feminist films made for girls while eviscerating the mindless crap like Battleship or whatever made for men with zero plot or POV.