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To look at Jeffrey Dahmer I could not tell he was a monster. His finely chiseled chin, neat hair, and quiet demeanor belied the hatred he had for himself. As the son of a fundamentalist, it is believed that Jeffrey repressed his homosexuality, and so this hatred turned inward to self-loathing projected onto those who were openly homosexual. True, most of the photos I saw and the clips on television when I watched the trial showed him with downward turned face: I could not see the eyes to his soul.
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Doll, M.A. (2011). The Monster as Other, as Self. In: Doll, M.A. (eds) The More of Myth. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 68. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-445-4_4
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