So who does this leave out? Women of color, missing men, the missing elderly, members of the LGBTQ community, poor people, women living “high-risk lifestyles,” drug addicts, those suffering from mental illness…all of these people tend to get thrown to the wayside to feed the public desire for stories of “golden women.” That does NOT missing women who are white, attractive, etc., don’t deserve news coverage and public interest, but it is to say that women who do not fit into those categories also deserve our attention, our empathy, our help. There are certain commonalities in the cases that get media attention: they are usually about young, white, middle class, conventionally attractive women who “light up a room,” have lots of friends, are living lives the general public perceives as productive, and can be perceived as innocent and not to blame in any way for what happened to them. You know the ones- Natalie Holloway, JonBenet Ramsey, Laci Peterson- that become fixations of the media, with constant stories about them on 24 hour news cycles, while others are completely ignored. I’ve done a lot of reading about “The Missing White Woman Syndrome,” which is a description of the phenomenon that drives media fascination with certain missing persons cases over others. There are so many cases that are interesting to me for different reasons however, I want to cover cases that not only are interesting to me personally, but also ones that haven’t gotten a lot of media attention. I’ve had a really hard time deciding which case to pick as my first one for this blog. Sarah Stillman, ” ‘The Missing White Girl Syndrome’: Disappeared Women and Media Activism” Women, such as low-income women of colour, seem natural.” Resources, while making the marginalisation and victimisation of other groups of Often white, wealthy, and conventionally attractive – as deserving of our collective These messages are powerful: they position certain sub-groups of women –
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