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Women Love True Crime (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by monkjerry@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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Why do women love true crime so much? I have a theory.

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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 143 points 7 months ago (30 children)

Woman: So when you're not swiping, what do you do?

Men 1-7: It sounds weird, but I'm really into WAR! ... Christoph Waltz was sooo creepy as Hans Landa! You have to see it! ... so each week both uncredentialled "historians" talk about their favorite times when thousands of men stabbed or shot each other! ... and then the good guy took his gun-knife and started prying teeth and slicing ears off the dead guys... literally an entire generation of men was decimated or psychologically damaged... But [Game of Thrones/The Walking Dead/Band of Brothers] is my go-to. What do you watch?

Woman: Mostly cartoons.

More seriously, I'd guess that many, maybe even most people have some level of morbid fascination with the type of violent, high stakes scenarios that people they identify with have been subject to. It's just kind of weird not to acknowledge that a lot of basically well-adjusted men (I flatter myself that I'm in that group) are into stuff that's objectively terrifying.

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 52 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I think people are interested with the extremes of the human experience in general because that's where the toughest choices and emotions come to light

[–] queezywheezy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dan Carlin??

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yep! When he said that it made a lot of genres make sense

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