Has anyone watched the Jeffrey Dahmer mini series on Netflix?

[TVLegend]

I’m currently watching Episode 1 and thinking, “Wow, this dude was f*cked up.”

BTW: Does anyone know what happened to Tracy Edwards, Dahmer’s survivor? The last I heard, he was in jail, and that was 11 years ago.

[Wawwie]

Originally Posted by TVLegend

I’m currently watching Episode 1 and thinking, “Wow, this dude was f*cked up.”

BTW: Does anyone know what happened to Tracy Edwards, Dahmer’s survivor? The last I heard, he was in jail, and that was 11 years ago.

I remember when that survivor testified in court. He said Dahmer told him "I'm going to eat your heart." Yeah, Dahmer was so beyond f'ed up. So why was Tracy Edwards in jail? I haven't seen the netflix series. Any good?

[TVLegend]

Originally Posted by Wawwie

I remember when that survivor testified in court. He said Dahmer told him "I'm going to eat your heart." Yeah, Dahmer was so beyond f'ed up. So why was Tracy Edwards in jail? I haven't seen the netflix series. Any good?

The series is okay, but a couple of things are inaccurate, like them making Tracy out to be some gay man when he said in the past that he isn’t.

I think Tracy was in jail for being part of some murder.

[Wawwie]

Originally Posted by TVLegend

The series is okay, but a couple of things are inaccurate, like them making Tracy out to be some gay man when he said in the past that he isn’t.

I think Tracy was in jail for being part of some murder.

He's bisexual.

Originally Posted by Netflix

When Edwards returned to Wisconsin, he was arrested several more times for things like drug possession, theft, property damage, failure to pay child support, and bail jumping, ABC reported, per the New York Post.

But the story doesn't end there. On July 26, 2011, Edwards was arrested after being accused of taking part in a crime that involved throwing a man to his death off a Milwaukee bridge, according to ABC News. Edwards was 52 at the time and homeless. He had been moving from shelter to shelter since 2002, ABC News said.

He eventually pleaded guilty to aiding a felon after he and another man threw someone off of a downtown bridge into a river during an argument, per Fox 6.

[GentlemanJim]

They claim that the series has been streamed for a total exceeding 500 million hours since it launched.
Wonder how many are viewing it as an "instructional" video?

I find it interesting that "society" finds it permissible to dramatize the race aspect, but not the sexual preference aspect.

[Wawwie]

Originally Posted by GentlemanJim

I find it interesting that "society" finds it permissible to dramatize the race aspect, but not the sexual preference aspect.

You do realize that psychotic killers & perverts can also be heterosexual

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by Wawwie

You do realize that psychotic killers & perverts can also be heterosexual

Yes, just as perverts and psychotic killers (and the police who enable them through ineptness) are not all racially motivated.

My fascination here is that "society" is cozy with stigmatizing whites as racially motivated (that "paint with a broad brush" issue)....yet there was a demand to remove "homosexual" tags from the series promotion.

AND DAHMER WAS SEXUALLY MOTIVATED.....


So, I don't know if you want to call it a disparity, or "conflicting sensitivities" or whatever
perhaps cognitive dissonance is an apt descriptor.

BUT whatever one calls it, it is undeniably a dual standard.

[GentlemanJim]

Wawwie, you mention that you have not seen the series, so you might be at a disadvantage here.

I have not seen it either, but I just happened to have read a lengthy interview of the reporter who was the source of much of the material the show is based upon

And in that interview the reporter mentions that much has been made about the fact that the cops who "returned" the escaped victim to Dahmer's custody were white.....as was Dahmer...implying that there may have been a special rapport between Dahmer and the police that was only "skin deep",... you might say. Thus victimizing the poor little minority boy who was thrown to the lions. (that's the way the story is being played)

Which is clearly little more than motivated race baiting.

So, All I'm saying here, is NOT necessarily that homosexuality caused the murder, but rather that isn't it equally fair to theorize that Dahmer obviously is capable of aberrant behavior, perhaps evidenced in a NUMBER of different ways? Poor Judgement/poor choices, in other words.

But, we're not allowed to speculate about that, let's just confine the speculation to how white skin makes a person evil......hope that clarifies my objection better.

[Wawwie]

Originally Posted by GentlemanJim

AND DAHMER WAS SEXUALLY MOTIVATED.....

So was Ted Bundy and he was a heterosexual. So I don't understand why you bring up the gay issue. Ted Bundy was just as sick and evil as Jeffrey Dahmer, you do know that, I assume. Yet, I doubt you would ever bring up Bundy's heterosexuality.

[Caroline13]

Oh I'm getting some laughs on this exchange, I would Not spend moment on this issue, but I know you didn't ask me, but the OP put it out there....

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by Wawwie

. Ted Bundy was just as sick and evil

There you go, changing the subject again.


My point was not so much centered upon my personal assessment of Dahmer, as it is our society's willingness to condone the speculation of race as a motivator, but not sexuality.

Again, it's that flaming dual standard that I find curious.

[GentlemanJim]

Isn't it just as likely that the cops may have thought "Ghey lovers spat? e'www yuk" and just sought the most expedient exit available to them?

[GentlemanJim]

Unfortunately, that's just the nature of the beast. When Cops are involved there will always be people who believe they did too much, AND there will always be people who believe they did too little'

AND it's just the opportunistic nature of some people to try and leverage their position by tying it to some greater issue.

The cop was one race and the vic was another, let's escalate this into a matter of racial bias, and see if we come out on top......that sort of thing.

[GentlemanJim]

And the last thing I'll throw into consideration is, here we have Dahmer...an individual who obviously believed that he was exempt from rules, standards, and mainstream values. He was voraciously dishonest, he believed he could steal, he believed he could murder, he believed he could eat other people, he believed he could consume illegal drugs, he believed that conventional sexual mores did not apply to him,...he may have even run with scissors as a child.

But, what's the one thing we are not allowed to speculate? Taboos are funny critters, especially when it comes time to feed them.

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by Caroline13

Oh I'm getting some laughs on this exchange, I would Not spend moment on this issue, .

Not changing the subject, just throwing out an abstract example.......but if the teeter-totter in the school playground comes up broken....what are the odds that the teacher is gonna come looking for the fat kid?

Where is the concern and sensitivity over lifestyle choices and the feelings of the accused?