True crime is quickly becoming one of the most popular forms of entertainment. Our obsession with podcasts, documentaries and TV shows detailing heinous crimes have turned serial killers into ghoulish superstars. But it’s their victims who deserve to be more widely known.
Many of Cottingham’s victims were thought of as “nothing but… a prostitute,” as Melinda Chateauvert, the author of Sex Workers Unite, said in the docuseries to illustrate how dismissive people were of the victims at the time of the torso killings. . And to call them that would be both incorrect — some of them were not sex workers (the preferred term) — and dehumanizing. “The problem with the word prostitute is that it’s so combined with the notion of sexual shame,” said Chateauvert. These were women and girls who were trying to do their best in lives that Cottingham interrupted.
Many of Cottingham’s victims were thought of as “nothing but… a prostitute,” as Melinda Chateauvert, the author of Sex Workers Unite, said in the docuseries to illustrate how dismissive people were of the victims at the time of the torso killings. . And to call them that would be both incorrect — some of them were not sex workers (the preferred term) — and dehumanizing. “The problem with the word prostitute is that it’s so combined with the notion of sexual shame,” said Chateauvert. These were women and girls who were trying to do their best in lives that Cottingham interrupted.
- 5/13/2024
- by Monique Jones
- Tudum - Netflix
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