Lionel Dahmer (father of Jeffrey Dahmer) is reportedly considering suing Netflix for “glamorizing” his son’s murders
Good for him!!! I’m happy he feels the way some viewers do, that Ryan Murphy glamorized those murders and tried making Jeffrey a sympathetic figure. No. Just no.
Just an FYI, Lionel Dahmer wrote a memoir about his son’s killings back in 94 and gave a large portion of the profits to the victim’s families. Since then he’s kept out of the public eye until most recently in 2020. A lot of people say he paid the families because he was sued to do so, but that isn’t what happened. He was sued by just 3 of the families, two for using their names without their consent, and one parent sued Lionel, his wife and his ex-wife for the wrongful death of their son, claiming this happened due to a lack of parental supervision.
Supposedly Lionel is also very bothered by how there are young people now who defend and love his sons actions. Jeffrey has gained an entire new fandom due to this show, and he sees that as problematic.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 24, 2022 5:37 PM
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Murphy’s rose tinted view of Dahmer stinks of Trent Reznor making an album at 10050 Cielo Drive.
If they put their projections and fantasies about high profile murders aside and think about things soberly, they’d realise the folly of it.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 24, 2022 4:58 PM
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This topic has a lot of people arguing/debating on twitter. Interesting how many people agree with the father, but how many don’t as well.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 24, 2022 5:06 PM
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The Halloween costume thing is bad taste, but that’s kind of the point of Halloween costumes. And there’s always a group of edgelords who pick costumes that are meme-ish and basic and only relevant for that year in pop culture.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 24, 2022 5:09 PM
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Since when is glamour a crime?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 24, 2022 5:11 PM
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Reznor supposedly said he "cried all night" once he realized he might have hurt the families of the victims with his Manson murder antics. If he "cried all night" it was just because he was worried he'd get sued. Apparently Sharon Tate's sister confronted him at one point.
I don't know if suing Netflix will get anywhere, but I understand Dahmer's dad's reaction. I'm sure Netflix and Murphy -- and everyone else, actually -- has every right to romanticize a serial killer if they want to. It's a shitty thing to do, but I don't think it's something that could be successfully litigated against.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 24, 2022 5:11 PM
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Was it really glamorized, though? Humanizing =/= glamorizing and I think the series did a decent job of humanizing Jeffrey Dahmer and his victims. Like or not, he was human, also. A shitty one, but human. I don't think writing him as one-dimensional, brainless, evil would've been believable nor done his victims any more justice. In fact, it's the human aspect that makes his actions that much more unsettling/disturbing because it reminds us that a large aspect of humanity and being human involves wickedness and cruelty.
That said, just because a subset off weirdos have romanticized Dahmer doesn't necessarily mean this series is to blame. That weird phenomenon has been going on for decades. Case in point: the women who literally sent Ted Bundy love letters in prison. If anything, the romanticization of serial killers is just yet another glimpse into how twisted and depraved the human species can be. Some people are drawn to darkness and objectively psychopathic behavior; especially when the dark psychopaths are male (see: Daemon fans from The House of the Dragon).
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 24, 2022 5:14 PM
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Doesn't everything have to be glamorized for anyone to want to watch it on television?
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 24, 2022 5:37 PM
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