Critics argue that repeatedly turning women into victims risks normalising violence against them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender
At a global level, men represent both the majority of victims and the majority of perpetrators of homicide. According to the 2023 UNODC Global Study on Homicide, in 2021, at a global level, 81% of homicide victims were men.[1] In 2021, males accounted for most homicide victims in all jurisdictions except in Austria, the Czech Republic, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Slovenia and Switzerland, where females were slightly more likely to be homicide victims.[2]
I wouldn’t be too concerned. Murder mysteries have been around for quite a while.
Be sincere, what are the chances for you to empathize with the victim if it was a regular average mundane dude? Imagine the detective bursting out, “Damn you! He was a working man! He liked watching football!”
The article does say this
The trend was highlighted on Instagram by the author Wendy Jones, who wrote: “So 84% [sic] of the books people bought and read in the UK this week involved a woman being murdered for entertainment. What is going on here?”
It looks like the majority of the authors are women so it seems to me that perhaps it’s a sociological statement by the authors.
The rest of them are just girls on various modes of transport
Guess they couldn’t quite make themselves write that article
You love to see it.
(Genuinely though I get why so many women are fascinated by stories of male violence and serial killers, as they’re liable to be the targets of said violence if they’re not alert to the warning signs.)
