Here’s why Women love serial killers
Have you ever wondered why we become addicted to certain forms of entertainment more than others?. Also, what role does our evolutionary psychology have with us battling different addictions? For instance, why does Hollywood glamorize the romantic fairy tale in love stories, yet women often go after bad boys in real life? Perhaps our primitive instincts are being hacked to be used as tools to give away our time, energy, and resources. Here’s why Women love serial killers.
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The biggest film this year by far is Netflix’s Tiger King a true, which is true crime. True crime is probably the biggest genre of tv and film within the last decade. It’s so addicting that people are getting retraumatized watching it a time magazine article states.
“When Serial launched in 2014, it became the fastest podcast to reach 5 million downloads and streams in iTunes’ history. More than 1.6 million print copies of true-crime books were sold in 2018, compared to 976,000 copies in 2016, industry figures show.“
For the most part, humans are predictable, as data and algorithms of today and the future will show. As much as we want to believe that we’ve evolved from hunter-gathers ages, we’re still slaves to many primal instincts and psychological cues.
“Technological feats that distract us build a daily mirage that we’ve evolved more than we like to believe, despite many studies showing the contrary. For instance, take the last several decades, the surge in “smart” cell phone usage has decreased our memorization. Spell check has made us worse spellers, and porn usage is at an all-time high.
Ogi Ogas and Sal Gaddam’s book titled “A billion wicked thoughts”, uses evolutionary psychology to explain our internet addiction to porn and the opposite sex. This information is essential because the real battle in this lifetime is against the senses and what we choose to consume.
If you think data scientists and programmers aren’t using your hard-wired primal instincts to make you more dependent on consuming their products, then the book is required reading. Also, you probably had no idea you were being manipulated as well.
10 Women who fell in love with serial killers
Take, for instance, women’s obsession with serial killers and the documentaries about them. On many social media profiles and dating sites, women even list in their bios as a skill or attractive quality. In the chapter titled; Ladies prefer Alphas, we’re taught why women are also more obsessed with romance novels, specifically the hero. (I added a spin on this narrative and used politics as an example in this article on political oneitis.)
The chapter quotes; Henry Kissinger, “power is the greatest aphrodisiac” is used as the blueprint for this chapter. The alpha’s morals didn’t matter as long as they were dominant in their craft or career. Remember, as hunter-gathers, the women always wanted the men who could kill and protect. Why would today be any different?
Being attracted and obsessed with serial killers goes against religious, societal, and spiritual norms and creeds. Yet it is this urge that shows how hard-wired are primal evolutional instincts are and why its important to be aware when it’s being used against us.
“Among the Yanomamo people of the Amazon, men who have killed the most other men have the most wives and the most offspring. …Killers regarded by the Yanomamo women are the most desirable. Men from the Illgots of the Phillippines were required to present the shrunken head of a man they had killed to a woman during courtship.”
But if that sounds to primitive and foreign, the chapter briefly speaks on how every serial killer from Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and David Berkowitz received love letters from a large number of female fans.
In conclusion, its crucial to understand how and why our senses and primal instincts are used against us. Our data and evolutionary psychology are some of the top weapons in their arsenal when it comes to the war for our attention. Yet, most people just blindly consume whatever it is their senses want without any clue on why. And this is why Women love serial killers.