Just the obsession with a young, pretty woman. I'm being hyperbolic, but part of the missing pretty white girl trope is the "pretty" part — on top of other discrimination, the media has historically devoted less coverage to plainer-looking girls. Like a missing girl isn't worth saving if you don't find her attractive.
Sexiness and cuteness/innocence (not always sexual). But yeah, it matters, and is true even outside of reality (games, movies, "best girl"/waifus, whatever). They're not deluded like what you were suggesting, though. lol
Well I guess the Petito case had one unexpected consequence. On local KGO radio today, the host did about 2 hours of call in discussing this very topic. Why do we focus so much on cases like Petito. He mentioned several statistics, like the number of native American women who have disappeared in Wyoming. It seems to have started a conversation on the topic, which I think is useful.
Conversations had already started much earlier. "Missing white woman syndrome" was coined in 2004. It's a complaint they never follow through on.
But anyway, how many cases are like Gabby's? It's got more than usual content to speculate on and is multi-state... and another sordid saga of Florida Man....
Race. I'll be blunt. On the whole, we as a society value white lives more. Perhaps some people who do not think of themselves as racist, even some liberals, subconsciously think that a white person is just more likely to have made something of themselves than is a black person, and hence the greater tragedy if they die.
How many cases could people remember of pretty white women missing (or similar circumstance) in the last two decades? If you put me on the spot, I couldn't have even come up with 15-20. I would be like, "Uh, was Mcclusky (can't even spell or remember first name) one of the more recent ones?". I think it's telling so many, including the OP, go back to the early 2000's, and obviously they tend to be more affluent or attractive, so it's not really about society valuing white lives more. People say that about blacks getting shot by police, yet white people never cared about all the white people getting shot. I don't think these sporadic national stories of missing white women do anything about people's social preference nor is there a political message.
The fact that black victims are preferred by the media when the perpetrator is a cop is a different thing entirely. It's not that we value black lives more in that context. It's that the "white cop/black victim" story feeds a political narrative subscribed to by many people of color and white liberals. It's more about antipathy toward police than it is about valuing black lives more. Ironic, given the BLM slogan. (Note: I express no opinion here about the validity of said narrative.)
Antipathy for what? They say racism. How is that not valuing black lives? Why do you think the Devonte picture went viral? Shee-it, searching "Gabby" on twitter, I could be a billionaire if I got a dime for each time a person said, "What would happen If they (Gabby or Brian) were black?".
Not to be crass but Saniyya Dennis is prettier then Petito so it's more then just pretty young woman.
A lot of attractive white girls do not get attention either because there are other elements e.g. what would happen had Holloway went to a middling high school?
On attraction scale, black women to men is similar to Asian men for women. They generally have more masculine characteristics in the face.
I looked her up, and I'm wondering why you chose this person? Did you just see that she is "missing"? So... boyfriend breaks up with her, she tells him she'll kill herself, calls him almost 60 times, (hold on... can you imagine how devalued a man would be with this same outline already? lol) and they know she got on a bus to NIagra Falls. Dogs find scent at that area, but can't retrieve her body where they think she is. She had a picture of Niagra Falls at night, so I think it's probable she soft planned it (boyfriend being the camel-breaking-back incident). There is nothing suggesting foul play with all the evidence pointing to suicide. I do find it amusing that people ignore all that and assume the man behind her getting off the bus must somehow be responsible. lol
Black people forever have been devalued and it continues
There is this constant twisting to try to show this e.g. white people are privileged because cops let Brian get away (ignoring that that means Gabby who is in the right doesn't get justice), yet inconsistent complaining that they aren't catching the murderers/rapists of the minorities. And of course the "disproportionately-out-of news-coverage" complaint which they ignore if it helps further the "systemic racism" agenda. The cop cases which became prevelant after Trayvon (which *gasp* only went nationally because Trayvon was black) and the more recent "while black"/Karen reporting more than made up for the "missing women".
I named her in the OP
Natalie Holloway. The coverage was 24x7 for months
What message are we to take from these? What interest does it further? I saw someone say, "This is why I don't date" in regards to Gabby case. 6B4T? LOL
That may be cheating since it's a kid, otoh, everyone still remembers it.
I can recall the weird Mormon one, Elizabeth Smart?
That blonde girl who went to Bermuda and prob got killed by her boyfriend..
Does OJ killing his blonde wife count? Might be bonus points actually.
Maybe if we're counting murders, that murdered model in SA by the Olympian "blade runner."
Can't think of a single POC, but maybe I don't watch enough Dateline. To be fair, can't think of an old fat woman either.
You don't remember the Hart family?
"Broken Harts," which is streaming on Discovery Plus, explores the true-crime story of Jennifer and Sarah Hart and their six adopted children, who all died when the family SUV drove off a Northern California cliff.
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