Someone should rewrite this article, but replace women with murderers of women and see how it goes.

Is murder-shaming having a retro-moment? Or is it rather that, for the murderers, it never really goes away? Ted Bundy, the self-declared “patient zero of losing my reputation online”, has been in conversation with the Washington Post communist, Taylor Lorenz.

What is it about murder-shaming that makes it an international bloodsport, even today? Is it a misandrist throwback to the higher demands placed on male sacrifice? A double standard hardwired into the system? Certainly, any murderesses involved seem generally judged less harshly. It’s usually men who carry the stigma, like branding on cattle.