This TikTok Trend Is Making Light of Violence Against Women - Women’s Media Center

“To them, killing a woman is a comedic twist in the traditional story of courtship — a surprise ending after the buildup of gaining a woman’s trust, flirting with her, and chasing her.” via WMC's the_fbomb

In these videos, men describe taking a woman on a date that ends in killing her. One popular rendition of this trend featured the

: “Imagine I take you to the Grand Canyon for our first date and I push you off the cliff and you fxcking die.”The comment sections are full of defenses of this content, with comments along the lines of “it's just a joke.” To them, killing a woman is a comedic twist in the traditional story of courtship — a surprise ending after the buildup of gaining a woman’s trust, flirting with her, and chasing her.

Let’s give the TikTok users who create and positively react to this content the benefit of the doubt and say they truly don’t understand why it’s not funny. That they don’t is in and of itself an issue and is a product of men’s privilege. Whereas women are socialized to recognize the precarious nature of their safety and to remain hypervigilant of their decisions, men do not need to take these precautions.

These gender stereotypes are reflected in structural differences that further exacerbate inequity. As explored in

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