When will women get a break from Hollywood's obsession with serial killers?
Last month, alongside millions of women nationwide, I found myself fighting to prove my own humanity when Georgia and Alabama passed their draconian"heartbeat bills," policies crafted by powerful men to control female bodies. At the same time, I watched innumerable immigrant women have been denied their autonomy, dignity, and lives, even, at the U.S.-Mexico border; I watched in horror as 15 schools were the settings for mass shootings.
So naturally, when the trailer for Extremely Wicked was released in January, many women took to the internet, arguing that the film glamorized the very brutality that we face every day. Others rose to its defense, hoping for a multidimensional, nuanced film that did not equate a serial killer with a thirst trap. But that's not what happened.
So, why do serial killers on film continue to steal hearts and headlines? It's no secret that pop culture often serves as a mirror to our political climate, and there's something natural, even digestible, about seeing white men exact devastating violence against women on TV—because that same story is playing out constantly in our society at large.
And of course, there is a painful racial element to the serial killer genre that Hollywood often ignores. All of the pretty, haunting, charismatic serial killers from recent films have been white men—Bundy, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the Zodiac Killer, to name a few. It's part of the shock factor, the plot twist: Presumably, audiences are surprised that these men are capable of such violence, because they look just like the men we're supposed to trust.
Within the first two minutes of the vlog, Hill recites iconic Kurt Cobain quote,"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not" as a way of explaining why she is ignoring the advice she'd received to not make this video."I tried so hard to make sure that I didn't pull the beauty YouTuber card and sit on the floor with a hoodie and no makeup crying," Hill jokes, clearly referring to her initial video response.
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