True crime, Makeup, And Popcorn

Why women study True Crime

Women without a doubt are the majority of the true crime fan base. A quick YouTube search will show you various women doing their makeup while “storytelling” the most gruesome stories known to mankind. While those stories take you deep into the human psyche and give you an analysis of a murderer’s mind, it is rather confusing why the gender most known for care and nurture is most interested in them.

Well, for starters according to the FBI, 70 percent of the 1,398 known victims of serial killers during the 1985–2010 time frame were female, so quite a large percentage. This leaves the question of why the victims are fans of the abusers. A simple answer to this question is the fake sense of knowledge and security provided by this type of content. By watching hours upon hours of murder analysis and true crime documentaries, you become familiar with the similarities between all the cases involving women who let their guard down. Now what about this gives you any security, you might ask? It’s the mental preparations and thinking you’re better than those victims because you know more, right? While that’s technically not true because the average person does not, at any given point, imagine being in their shoes because they simply “won’t let themselves end up in those situations,” everyone fails to notice that those victims are just regular people too who were a tad unluckier than us. In a real-life situation, the average woman won’t exactly be able to escape her male aggressor. But on the bright side, she can leave traces of her everywhere so that he gets caught and does not repeat it to any other woman. Of course, there are various ways a woman can escape, but we are talking about the most unfortunate situations, those situations that feed us with more true crime content.

There is a very fine line between being the scared target audience and the fan base of such abusers and killers.