Dahmer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter (age 18) is a high school senior, and she mistakenly downloaded it for a flight we were taking for college tours. I asked her what she was watching on her laptop, and she said "Dahmer." I asked if she knew who this person was?!

I'm normally a pretty chill person, but I hope that the entertainment industry has some type of conscience, and asks itself the point of making this topic into a show.

So you’re outraged that your adult kid that is of age to kill in war is watching a show about a serial killer? There is nothing chill about you. What does your daughter downloading this have to do with anything? Either watch it or don’t. That’s the beauty of free will. Do you want full censorship?

Why glorify such a horrible person? Is there really nothing left to make a series about other than a serial killer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter (age 18) is a high school senior, and she mistakenly downloaded it for a flight we were taking for college tours. I asked her what she was watching on her laptop, and she said "Dahmer." I asked if she knew who this person was?!

I'm normally a pretty chill person, but I hope that the entertainment industry has some type of conscience, and asks itself the point of making this topic into a show.

So you’re outraged that your adult kid that is of age to kill in war is watching a show about a serial killer? There is nothing chill about you. What does your daughter downloading this have to do with anything? Either watch it or don’t. That’s the beauty of free will. Do you want full censorship?

Why glorify such a horrible person? Is there really nothing left to make a series about other than a serial killer?

He wasn't glorified and the series shed significant light on how little the police did or cared to stop Dahmer because his victims were largely gay minorities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The most disturbing part of it for me was how sympathetically he was portrayed. His father seemed to think he was always a victim. I did like learning more about the victims and their families. But it did feel a little “poor Jeffrey” to me.

+1

Exactly how criminals start and end.

[Anonymous]

I've wached about six episodes, I feel like I need to bleach my brain. So sick and disgusting.

The worst part is how could his family members live with/near him and not know that this guy was seriously, seriously twisted.

[Anonymous]

PP who talked about the worst part being "poor Jeffrey". I agree it's stomach churning. However, I was thinking about this.... what makes a serial killer kill? Emotion right? So examining Dahmer's emotions - not excusing them, but trying to comprehend them - is valuable.

He was lonely, horny, crazy, rejected, drunk raised by a crazy mohter and an oblivious father, incompetent in almost every way, but key to his crimes, socially totally inept, incapable of relating to other people in any normal way. We need to be looking for kids like this and intervening.

Also of note, our shameful ignorning of minority disappearances and murder. Did you know the officer who sent the young boy BACK to Dahmer was fired and then eventually rehired with restitution??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balcerzak#:~:text=Balcerzak%20and%20Joseph%20T.,the%20officers%20during%20the%20incident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter (age 18) is a high school senior, and she mistakenly downloaded it for a flight we were taking for college tours. I asked her what she was watching on her laptop, and she said "Dahmer." I asked if she knew who this person was?!

I'm normally a pretty chill person, but I hope that the entertainment industry has some type of conscience, and asks itself the point of making this topic into a show.

So you’re outraged that your adult kid that is of age to kill in war is watching a show about a serial killer? There is nothing chill about you. What does your daughter downloading this have to do with anything? Either watch it or don’t. That’s the beauty of free will. Do you want full censorship?

Why glorify such a horrible person? Is there really nothing left to make a series about other than a serial killer?

He wasn't glorified and the series shed significant light on how little the police did or cared to stop Dahmer because his victims were largely gay minorities.

THIS. Jesus, this is the point. He was in NO WAY glorified.

I will say I love to watch true crime and this was a hard watch for me so I didn't get through it all. But it was not hard b/c he was glorified. It was hard b/c the entire thing was so horrible. The murders. His intent and callousness. And most of all, the complete and utter disregard paid by law enforcement. The show has utility on that front, even if you don't understand it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most disturbing part of it for me was how sympathetically he was portrayed. His father seemed to think he was always a victim. I did like learning more about the victims and their families. But it did feel a little “poor Jeffrey” to me.

+1

Exactly how criminals start and end.

We did not watch the same show. He was not portrayed sympathetically, at all. Not at all.

[Anonymous]

People who watched this and feel “poor Jeffrey” need to have their heads examined. His father might have thought that he was the victim but why would you embrace his father’s perspective?! I felt somewhat sorry for his parents but at no point, except for a couple of childhood scenes, did I feel sorry for him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who watched this and feel “poor Jeffrey” need to have their heads examined. His father might have thought that he was the victim but why would you embrace his father’s perspective?! I felt somewhat sorry for his parents but at no point, except for a couple of childhood scenes, did I feel sorry for him.

New poster: I didn’t feel sorry for him but it humanized him. It went from me knowing about his crimes to seeing other sides of him: his mom leaving, the road kill science experiments, drinking early on, stint in the army, how he did things early on and could have gotten help earlier and where the system failed to help him and protect others…but I didn’t feel he was a victim or “poor Jeffrey.” He died a horrible death, too. Not that living in prison is a great life…and I’m pro capital punishment - but I also don’t think he should have died as he did.