• electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    That may be generally true, but in my experience it is mostly women (not all ‘white’) who listen to it. I think it is a way of dealing with the the anxiety of being a woman in a world that makes them unsafe.

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      The podcasts don’t give safety tips, or offer self defense courses or practical advice. They revel in salacious drama and personal details of murder on a libidinal level. Let’s stop with this bullshit myth that true crime is “to protect oneself from murder”. It’s entertainment and titillation not serious defensive studies let’s be real.

      I revel in violence too sometimes in my entertainment, in video games and action movies. But I don’t use real “true” violence to get off, I use fake and fictional violence at least

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        I’m not saying people listen to it for safety tips. I’m not even saying it’s healthy or good. I think it’s a kind of morbid fascination.