Name: Why Are Some Women Attracted to Serial Killers?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Are Some Women Attracted to Serial Killers?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-03. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Are Some Women Attracted to Serial Killers?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-03. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Do you ever do a demographic breakdown of who watched,
like does Netflix have a demographic breakdown
of who watches those crime shows?
'Cause it's mostly women, isn't it?
- Anecdotally, that's what everybody says.
There was a funny bit on "Saturday Night Live"
the other night, that was like, you know,
what do ladies do when they're home alone?
You know, wait, wait, wait, you know,
then they like throw on the murder shows.
- Yeah, why is that?
- I don't know, it's a weird thing.
And when we were making "Night Stalker,"
there were like, we would get to the point in the interview
where it's finally, you know, I would ask everybody like,
okay, so for some reason or another,
this guy becomes like the Jim Morrison of serial killers.
Because like when he's paraded through the courtroom,
all of a sudden he's got these like groupies and fans
and they're sending him, and I had gotten access to
all of the like naked pictures that the girls are sending in,
you know, 'cause this author had written a book about him,
had all this stuff, and I was like,
and you always have to kind of ask that awkward question
of like, so why does this guy become this sort of crazy
sex symbol object of desire, you know,
obscure object of desire?
And it's always like kind of, particularly with the,
you know, the women who are being interviewed,
but everybody, and nobody quite has an answer.
Is it the bad boy thing?
Is it the celebrity thing?
But this is somebody that like, you know,
I think as one of the people said,
this is somebody that would eat you for dinner,
not like, you know, there's no, it's craziness to have any attraction to it,
but yet it exists, you know?
This guy has like groupies and fans.
And it's very common for murderers to get,
especially murderers of women, to get all these propositions from women.
Yeah.
Very strange.
Super strange.
And, you know, I read something about that.
No, you know, Whitney Cummings was actually telling me about this.
She said, she, she read that it was something that had to do with,
there was like a, an evolutionary benefit to getting close to killers.
Like that, I think this is theoretical.
In what regard?
That the idea of, it's very hard to kill someone.
Once you have like human personal contact?
Is that what you're saying?
No, no, no.
No, that the, the act of killing someone that it's difficult to do and that it
requires
like someone who is to be capable of taking another person's life and to be
close to that
person means somehow or another, you're protected by them and that they're,
they're willing to
kill and that this is like something that existed thousands and thousands of
years ago in our DNA,
this desire to be close to killers because you were more likely to survive
because there were
so many killers.
Like if you went back in time, you know, a few thousand years ago, murder must
have been like
really common.
Like when, when people were sword fighting all the time and-
Dude, there's a crazy, there's a crazy book on this.
Steven Pinker wrote this book called The Better Angels of Our Nature.
And what he does is he tracks over time, kind of the nature of violence in
humanity.
And he's like, okay, once upon a time there's Cain and Abel and Cain kills Abel,
like the
murder rate is like 50%.
So actually we've been trending up ever since then.
And like, it literally looks at how, you know, over time the incidence of like
violence has
actually, even though it doesn't seem like that, dramatically decreased in
humanity.
It does seem like that.
It does seem like that.
I think we just focus on the instances of violence because we have mass media.
Right.
And because-
And it's fascinating.
Yeah.
And if it bleeds, it leads.
So there's-
But why is that?
You know, like that's something that, you know, making The Night Stalker or
even making
Silk Road, it's like, why are we fascinated by the underworld?
You know, the sort of like the worst things that people do to each other?
Like, what is it?
You know?
And I'm, you're participating in it.
I'm participating in it.
Anytime we're watching it, making it or whatever, you know, we are all in some
way complicit in
that.
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