BTK and Deodorant
They aren't really related at all, but I did have thoughts about both things.
First of all, I have never gone on any kind of a political rant on my site. I have always attempted to present information on my family's odd goings on or my opinions about film, literature and music.
BUT --
I have heard time and time again that the "BTK is the worst serial killer of our time" and I think that's bunk. He is a disgusting, terribly evil man, but by serial killer standards, hardly the worst.
And this is coming from a girl who grew up under the cloud of the BTK. I remember being huddled in a tent on my first girl scout overnight (it was when I was a brownie scout, and it was a one night try-it sort of deal), terrified that the BTK was going to come and kill me. Not only that, he was going to burn, torture and kill me. And maybe all of my tent mates. Afterall, he had killed one little girl already. There was speculation while I was growing up (by criminal profilers) that the BTK probably lived in the same neighborhood as my family, and that added to my fear.
But I am sick to death of this publicity. I have heard people justify all the media attention by saying, "Americans deserve to know what true evil is." That's a lousy excuse because we are witnessing true evil all the time: just research Saddam Hussein , al-Qaeda, or on a different level John Couey.
Americans have a sick fascination with things like this and I wonder if it isn't indicative of some deeper problems. Dennis Rader is probably basking in all this media attention and feeling completely fulfilled that his terrible crimes and sick sexual fantasies are now public knowledge. We should be more sensitive to the victims and their families by turning a deaf ear to this terrible man and his disgusting, deplorable deeds.
On another topic altogether, my friend Bob told me about a boy who had been taunted at school by peers, telling him that he smelled bad. The boy put deodorant oll over his body, and eventually died from the toxicity of the deodorant. So I'm thinking it is time for an intervention for Thing Two. I think I'll encourage him to limit the deodorant to his armpits.
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