Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story—and commenters on social media are begging for viewers and showrunners to stop turning murderers into sex symbols.
Evan Peters, who plays Murphy’s Dahmer, isn’t intentionally positioning himself as a romantic hero. But he is a conventionally attractive leading man—something that seems to take precedence in the eyes of some viewers.
The was a rapist and killer who sought out vulnerable victims, predominantly Black men, and was convicted in 1991 of killing 17 boys and men over the course of 13 years.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“Let’s not romanticize Jeffrey Dahmer just because he is played by Evan Peters.
Remember the victims,” wrote one person on Twitter, with a thread on each of the people killed by Dahmer. “If you’re thirsting over Jeffery Dahmer please block me that’s weird as hell there is nothing hot about that man,” wrote another.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Another Twitter user observed, “People romanticising jeffrey dahmer because evan peters is hot, doesn't sit right with me...and it’s happened before with zac efron as ted bundy??”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.And it’s true.
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