TheRealCallie said:
Even their family and friends didn't know they were ******* serial killers. It had nothing to do with their ******* looks, it had everything to do with the ability to hide their true nature. Get a clue, dude.
you are once again in denial of the supreme power of male physical attractiveness over women as the actual facts prove otherwise.
"The Los Angeles Times reported Ramirez had “apparent fans” at his 1989 sentencing hearing, including a woman wearing “skin-tight black spandex jumpsuit’ who “smiled and waved” at the killer. And, as the docuseries shows, he'd smile and wave back to his fans in the courtroom.
"In all my years of covering trials in Los Angeles, I never saw a defendant with more *** appeal than Richard Ramirez," Tony Valdez, a KTTV reporter said in the docuseries.
The phenomenon is nothing new.
Bundy received fan mail, including naked photos and marriage proposals, from women all over the world. Multiple women even showed up at the courthouse during Bundy's trial in the same manner that groupies show up for concerts. Several were dressed like his victims."
https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/why-did-serial-killer-richard-ramirez-attract-fangirls
Rodent said:
I think what is being touched on here is also the phenomenon of hybristophilia and that's about men that are already convicted and in prison receiving everything from fan mail to marriage proposals. While their victims or their families might have been fooled before for all sorts of reasons, this is specifically about the attention they receive from random women after they are already known for their heinous crimes. Furthermore, it needs to be questioned how much attention they got *because* of their crimes.
I cannot say whether this is specifically linked to their physical appearance though. For that we'd have to look into more cases and also get average and "ugly" serial killers for comparison and the amount of attention they got after their conviction. I just know that Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer also got their share of fan mail and Dahmer specifically looks more average to me.
i think that this is true for a percentage of women attracted to serial killers but the fact that the very good looking men have such a large amount of groupies compared to average or below average looking one's says volumes. for example, i don't recall ever seeing anything about JWG having groupies while a violent, gang member felon like Jeremy Meeks is now a multi millionaire model based only on a single mugshot.
VanillaCreme said:
mgill said:
VanillaCreme said:
mgill said:
this is but one of many examples and a quick google search will provide many others. the book i recommeded has references to many studies, all of which show the same result. you can also look at cases like Jeremy Meeks, Ted Bundy and Richard Rameriez to see how much physical appearence can make.
I'm not sure mentioning two serial killers is good for any point to be made.
the point is that because they were physically attractive they had hordes of women lusting after them despite the fact that they were violent psycho killers.
ardour said:
what a pointless argument/thread.
kind of like the life of ugly males.
I get what you're saying. Personally, they weren't attractive to me. Bundy was a conventionally attractive guy, but Ramirez was halfway caught because of his teeth.
i have not seen it but the new Netflix documentary about him addresses these in part-the same with the one on Bundy.