Ted Bundy is not hot. This is a serial killer.

Ted Bundy, a serial killer, has somehow (since the grave!) Himself won a special four-hour show, as well as his own feature film. Both will be on Netflix, offering different views of the same story: Conversations with a killer: The tapes of Ted Bundy, available for streaming now, focuses on what is a bundy evil genius. The film, Extremely nasty, incredibly bad and vile, is not out yet, but would devote himself to his life with his partner Liz Kloepfer.

And thanks to the timing of both, Bundy is in fashion right now. If you look for her name on Google, you will notice that the conversations about her are largely centered on women. Not its victims, as it should be, but people, past and present, who think that it so hot.

Why is it this The thing about Bundy we all talk about? And does anyone really know any of these women? (I certainly have not encountered any of them.) Apparently, it is so common that Netflix has had to remind us that there are many fish other than rape in the sea:

Thank you for the warning, but I want to believe that the majority of women do not like guys who admit to raping and brutally murdering 30 women.

That's why I call bullshit on all this "woman wants to sleep with a serial killer!" Narrative, real or fictional. This includes Netflix products You, who would also have seen an increase in the number of women pale under her main murderer.

Some women may have tweeted about their dubious attraction to Ted Bundy or Joe Goldberg, but there is a bigger problem at play: Hollywood's ceaseless quest to explain, humanize, badize and even glorify white men who love to play. hurt people, especially women.

It's not that I think stories involving murders or crimes should not be told – even though I'm personally tired of seeing women stuffed in refrigerators or tortured by Quentin Tarantino. My problem is that it's the men who talk about it the most, whether it's directing, writing, financing or clarifying movies and series that the world consumes.

Joe Berlinger, for example, is the person behind both Bundy projects. Given how the actions of Bundy have affected women, it would have been nice to see at least one of her shots be a director instead of a guy (the same!). Maybe a woman would have managed the Extremely nasty, incredibly bad and vile trailer more thoughtfully, rather than cut it off with Zac Efron's flirty smiles and a wink on a "fun" soundtrack.

In a recent interview, Berlinger said the criticism that he glorified Bundy was a "naïve and impulsive reaction". For him, the reaction against the trailer is unfair because most people have not seen it yet. "I think that telling filmmakers that no matter what is banned is a very slippery slope that leads us to Trump stating that the media is" false information. "

Nobody says he can not tell Bundy's story, but considering how he told the story even story for the Netflix series, which is available, I do not hold my breath as his movie version is more attentive to the victims of Bundy. Berlinger could have chosen from a number of fascinating angles for Conversations with a killer: The tapes of Ted Bundy, but whoever he went with? A deep dive into the heat, intelligence and "normalcy" that everyone thought that Bundy was.

The series interviews a few women, but she also pays a lot of attention to the women who supported Bundy, from her fans in the courtroom to the woman who accepted her marriage proposal during her murder trial, had her child and even him while he was in prison. Men who tell the rest of the story tell how much this boy next door was handsome and smart. "It's one of us," says one of them. Another compares Bundy's need to torture women with a child who was refused candy. Even the Mormon Church tells of its commitment to the church. To top it off, we hear Bundy's story straight from the horse's mouth.