#and now this dahmer series that was made without the consent of the family's victims

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it's insane how literal serial killers are depicted in a more empathetic way than marilyn monroe

#the things i have read about blonde made my stomach turn i don't think i'll even bother to watch it #but then there are movies about serial killers depicting them as human and wanting you to have sympathy for them #like the ted bundy movie with zac efron doesn't even try to depict what a true monster that man was.. #and now this dahmer series that was made without the consent of the family's victims #male directors will depict serial killers as human but will depict an abused woman as a piece of meat without any self agency #the fact that blonde is basically fanfiction too and just boils down to torture p*rn #male directors will really have more compassion for a male serial killer than for a woman! #☁️

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@sohereswhatyoumissedlastweek replied to your post “the thought of this glee docu makes me feel...”:

Ew what? Hadn't heard about that. I guess tragedy has become the new sensation for tv. Like that netflix show about the serial killer Dahmer being super popular (and the family of the victims not wanting that show to be made)

​Yeah that. It is very gross. Imagine being Josey and people are gonna make a sensational docu series exploring on why and how you watched your mum drown! So fun! Or a victim of Mark’s, who has to see how this is being shown to a wider audience! Someone pointed out that these creators have used witness statements without people’s consent for their documentaries. 

Like... I am so upset about this. This is so not needed. I am all for the tea and that stuff, but there are some topics that are off-limit. Stuff like crunch hours or mismanagment? Now that is Glee tea. The racism on set? Oh spill it! Or their first shitty plane. Heck yeah! I would actually love to hear more about what it was like working on set, because that wasn’t all rosy either.

But csa, domestic abuse (if they also decided to “delve into” Blake’s entire situation yikes), drug addiction and drowning are not cute. It’s not even Glee. It’s about people who worked on Glee. Especially since the 3 people who are deceased have loved ones and victims (damnit Mark). And yeah, these tragedy people love to claim that it’s to “give people a voice” or they do it “in respect of the loved ones and victims” while they exploit and cash in on the trauma that the deaths have caused. I can imagine that the cast, crew, loved ones and victims don’t want to relive learning about the deaths and what happened. 

And even if people want to learn more about these topics... the tea is right fucking there. There is a reason Chris’s off-hand comment about Lea is getting a lot of press. The cast isn’t shying away from talking about the bad shit. Jenna, Kevin and Adam went in depth about how traumatising it was to lose Cory in a Showmance episode. Kevin pointed out that even years later he couldn’t watch Jessie’s Girl because it was just too much. Amber called the deaths a form of trauma bonding in a recent podcast. She even briefly mentioned Mark, which for obvious reasons is very off-limits to talk about. So the cast is occassionally talking about the very bad stuff, but they actually experienced it and they also know what they want to share and what not to share. The thought of an external party “exposing” what it was like without having any direct connection to it, is very icky and gross. 

Heck, Cory’s mum did a huge interview 5 years after Cory’s death. Naya wrote in lengths about his death in her book. It is out there. The cast/crew etc. doesn’t owe us shit, so they shared what they can/want and that is fine as long it is coming from them and they do it in a respectful manner. Especially re: Mark situation. I get that the best way to deal with that is to just not fucking talk about that at all. Let the people involved keep that. They don’t have to speak about it.

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