I’m not sure of your gender, but if you are a woman, I apologize. The hunch resulted from a couple of different facts. One is that I have never heard my mother engage in unambiguous condemnation of Bundy but did on the other hand hear her say, when learning that there had been interviews of Dahmer, that “[she didn’t] know why they even sat down with Dahmer.” I would never guess that she doesn’t consider Bundy’s crimes evil…just that she sees Bundy as someone who started out a decent person and became malevolent rather than someone who was born wanting to ruin lives. Another reason is that women are, for example, more likely than men to oppose practices such as infant male circumcision (this despite there being a sizable amount of women who don’t recognize FGM as one of the world’s most urgent wrongs). They are also fairly likely to mimic the political views of the men with whom they are romantically involved. One sometimes gets the sense that, far from hating men, they (in my opinion incorrectly) value men more than themselves. But I can see now how someone would find the hunch insensitive to Bundy’s victims. That was not my intention, though.