When murderers become attractive do we lose sight of the horrifying realities of murder? With the recent release of the steamy and sexy Netflix true crime series, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,”Zena Almeida-Warwin PO ’28 questions society’s obsession with romanticizing murderers. Arguing that our fixation on human attractiveness when it comes to these types of movies and shows, Almeida-Warwin warns readers of desensitization to murder and that we may be distorting real trauma into our own pleasure.
Tag: Values
OPINION: No President Starr, ‘valuing values’ isn’t education
G. Gabrielle Starr and Kevin Dettmar’s article in the Chronicle of Higher Education is counterintuitive and has unfortunate implications.