This feels like stereotyping. Like it should be "Missing attractive women syndrome". Like if your white grandma goes missing do you they get the same attention? Its more like attractive people gets treated different imo.
I’ll never understand the obsession with blaming individuals over the messaging itself. Could it be that “missing white woman syndrome” just isn’t a good name for it? You can’t expect Americans, 70% of which are functionally illiterate, to double check these things
Like yeah in an ideal world everyone would be perfect and use google every time they have a question but you have to understand that the average American is like 40 IQ and incapable of doing it
They're working with the shelter in Wyoming that saved my life a decade ago. They seem to be really good people out to make a change and I really hope they find healing.
It's so wonderful when is able to transform their grief into something that makes the world better. Good for him to help get these women the attention they deserve.
Man, white people using their platform helping and displaying empathy for folks outside their race and class is good it hear right now, but should also be something that ideally baseline human decency.
“Your challenging of my worldview sounds like I might have to make slight alterations to the convenient way I live my life or else feel like a hypocrite. It is much easier to write you off as a communist hellbent on destroying human civilization”
It’s almost funny that as soon as I saw “missing white woman syndrome” I just KNEW this was about Gabby Petito. Because that was probably the most glaring case we’ve had in recent years
And this is honestly a great way to both leverage privilege and honor her memory- by boosting the stories of those the media ignored because they weren’t a young conventionally attractive white woman
We had a week in the UK where two white girls disappeared at the same time as (separately) one black girl. The two white girls got wall to wall coverage - people remember the case to this day - but the black girl's disappearance was treated as a minor local news story.
It's a difficult one, because one can understand why parents never stop fighting for their children - but the media has a responsibility, and ongoing coverage sometimes harms the parents more than it helps them, as well as, for instance, destroying the economy of the place where she went missing.
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