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When she talks about them, Katie tends to talk about a lot of Big Important Ideas. Turns out it’s actually very feminist to listen to stories about women being strangled and chopped up! Wait, huh? What? Well, she wants to recognize the signs when men are dangerous. You need to understand how these things happen. You have to understand the problem before you can change it, and so listening to true crime murder stories is an empowering act, it’s taking back control. It makes communities safer in the end. And yet! I’ve seen her giggling at the hosts of her favorite shows as they crack jokes about whatever the latest dramatic story is. She loves posting in forums and speculating where a case might go. And when I see this, with all respect to Katie, I realize that she doesn’t really think these podcasts are the secret to solving the problem of gendered violence. She just has a hobby. Recall the ancient wisdom: The vast majority of true crime podcast fans aren’t studying the justice system o

When she talks about them, Katie tends to talk about a lot of Big Important Ideas. Turns out it’s actually very feminist to listen to stories about women being strangled and chopped up! Wait, huh? What? Well, she wants to recognize the signs when men are dangerous. You need to understand how these things happen. You have to understand the problem before you can change it, and so listening to true crime murder stories is an empowering act, it’s taking back control. It makes communities safer in the end. And yet! I’ve seen her giggling at the hosts of her favorite shows as they crack jokes about