{"id":1658504,"date":"2022-09-26T12:39:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1658504"},"modified":"2022-09-26T12:40:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:40:24","slug":"netflix-criticized-for-including-show-about-jeffrey-dahmer-in-lgbtq-content-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netflix-criticized-for-including-show-about-jeffrey-dahmer-in-lgbtq-content-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Criticized for Including Show About Jeffrey Dahmer in &#8220;LGBTQ Content&#8221; Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnetflix-criticized-for-including-show-about-jeffrey-dahmer-in-lgbtq-content-category%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1658504&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/netflix-to-no-longer-put-up-with-woke-employees-according-to-new-company-memo\">Netflix&#8217;s<\/a> new series &#8220;Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story&#8221; premiered on September 21 and faced immediate backlash for tagging the show as part of the streaming network&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/lgbtq-activist-group-demands-gender-affirmation-for-2-year-olds\">LGBTQ<\/a> content, despite the fact that the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/new-york-times-slammed-for-article-promoting-cannibalism\">cannibal<\/a> was a gay man.<\/p>\n<p>The series portrays serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer with the central character played by Evan Peters. Dahmer was active between 1978 and 1991 and killed a total of 17 people.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash got going when a TikTok user, LiztheLezbo, posted a video of her watching television, meditating on &#8220;why the f**k Netflix made the decision to tag the Jeffrey Dahmer documentary LGBTQ? Like I know its technically true but this is not the representation we&#8217;re looking for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The series is not a documentary but rather a limited series scripted show produced by Ryan Murphy, the man behind &#8220;American Horror Story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One user wrote, &#8220;If I need to stay in my lane absolutely tell me but anyone else think it&#8217;s pretty gross of @netflix to list Dahmer under #LGBTQ, especially when the True Crime tag would have worked?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another user said what Netflix did was a hate crime.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>User Kathryn Crowley said that she was mad on behalf of lesbians.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many others posted their disdain on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2022\/09\/23\/netflix-monster-jeffrey-dahmer-lgbtq-tag\/\">According to Pink News<\/a>, the show does not blame Dahmer for his crimes but rather &#8220;the systemic racism and institutional failures of the police that allowed Dahmer to continue his killing spree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dahmer&#8217;s crimes included dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Posobiec tweeted, &#8220;Netflix hit with backlash after tagging Jeffrey Dahmer series as \u2018LGBTQ\u2019 despite Jeffrey Dahmer being gay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ian Miles Cheong wrote, &#8220;I mean, Dahmer was gay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix&#8217;s new series &#8220;Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story&#8221; premiered on September 21 and faced immediate backlash for tagging the show as part of the streaming network&#8217;s LGBTQ content, despite the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1658506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}