Thread by @Charlotte_Stein

Look man. That Ted Bundy trailer? With him seeming like a sexy anti-hero? Almost a loveable rogue? They’ve done that on purpose. It’s on purpose, just like with You. They want to normalise/romanticise men doing terrible things, and they know that many women will buy into it too.

He likely murdered more than a hundred women. Then denied it. Blamed everyone and everything he could for it. Used promises of revealing more victims to stay his execution. He was the worst man to ever exist. And they’re trying to make him sexy.

And you know what? He wasn’t handsome. Not really. If he was anywhere close to a Zac Efron, people would have remembered him more. Part of why he got away with it so long is because he was *invisible*.

The idea of his handsomeness is constantly exaggerated, when really he was just sly and charming. He could talk people into things, including into believing he was a sexy guy who was just being wronged.

And now they’ve made a film about him, where he’s a sexy guy who gets to tell you repeatedly how wronged he is while the air of him being wronged hangs over everything.

Awesome. Good job, humanity.

I’m so glad we’re so set up to reward absolutely remorseless narcissistic psychopaths.

Man, it sure is a relief to see how many people understand making a sexy trailer about that loveable rogue Ted Bundy was a terrible, terrible move. A million high fives to you all! If I don’t respond it’s not because I don’t care, it’s because this convo is now muted!