Posted on 10/09/2025 11:47:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Hot and homicidal. That’s the dating criteria for 20-somethings with hybristophilia, a sexual attraction to criminals — like serial killer and body snatcher, Ed Gein. It’s an outré affinity toward bad boys that’s being fueled by social media, according to blood-curdling new data.
Gein, infamously nicknamed “The Butcher of Plainfield” for slaughtering and skinning women on his farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin, is the internet’s latest love interest.
The mid-century murder’s sordid tale of abuse and savagery is spotlit in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story,” starring Hollywood heartthrob Charlie Hunnam as Gein. But, instead of horror and disgust, beguiled Gen Zers and true crime fanatics are showering the villain with sympathy and lust.
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They thought Bin Laden was very sexy.
Making a woman’s suit. Lamp shades. Not surprised the current culture identifies with that. Criminologists have seen an increase in dismemberment of bodies. Of family members.
We got about 5 minutes into it and saw more than we wanted. NOT on the watch list. For us anyway.
Saw a trailer. No thanks.
I don’t remember that.
NETFLIX CAN FIND BETTER TOPICS, IMO.
GEIN WAS & STILL IS A MONSTER
We can’t have heroes from American history anymore and nobody nowadays is very heroic, so serial killers seem like a logical choice for Hollywood heroes.
I am reminded of when Sue lyon married some guy in prison. Also the Boston Marathon bomber has lots of girls after him.
I read a couple of books on him and other serial killers back in the late 70's...prior to taking a uniformed job in NY State's prison system. Back in the early 80's while working at Auburn, Winston Moseley who killed Kitty Genovese in NY City, and Ron DeFeo, who murdered his family in Amityville were prisoners there. Joseph Chrisopher, the .22 caliber killer was in our Segregation unit for a while.
Ryan Murphy is the sicko Hollywood guy who keeps coming up with vile content. I will never watch anything with his name attached to it.
It is sometimes good that people are reminded of the monsters that exist in real life. I worked in NY State’s prison system for 25 years. When I started in 1980, they told us to remember, that not all the criminals are behind bars. And that comment is even more relevant today. Not all criminals and nutcases are behind bars unfortunately, and every day we are reminded of that when an innocent person’s life is snuffed out by one of them. Unfortunately, there are always going to be idiots to look at these monsters as heroes, but maybe shows like this one will wake some people up the horrors that are still walking around on the street.
So, then...TikTok is [at least one more] cause of the true pandemic.
Check. /s
I could posit an effective argument that the psychologists mentioned are like-afflicted.
It was quite a thing back then, and by no means just American women.
AFA the psycho girls going gaga: What's not to love - he practically invented the sexy 2 day stubble look.
I weep for the the future of humanity.
My Grandfather was a guard at Walpole State Prison in MA in the 60s and 70s. He said Albert DeSalvo, better known as The Boston Strangler, was such a polite, soft spoken man it was spooky. Monsters are everywhere.
“ Hot and homicidal. That’s the dating criteria for 20-somethings with hybristophilia…”
If anyone needs doxing, it’s these women. I don’t know about the hot part, but they’re all 10s on the crazy axis.
He’s got those creepy eyes. 😏
I just looked at the trailer and that is enough.
Ed Gein was the ‘inspiration’ for Buffalo Bill.
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