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By: Michelle Malkin » MISSING PRETTY GIRL SYNDROME

Michelle Malkin » MISSING PRETTY GIRL SYNDROME — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:38:17 +0000

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By: UNCoRRELATED

UNCoRRELATED — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:46:12 +0000

Spinning Natalee

Eugene Robinson writes in the Washington Post: Whatever our ultimate reason for singling out these few unfortunate victims, among the thousands of Americans who are murdered or who vanish each year, the pattern of choosing only young, white, middle-cla…

By: Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:21:01 +0000

MISSING PRETTY GIRL SYNDROME

If you are interested, Dan Riehl at Riehl World News has been tracking all the twists and turns in the tragic Natalee Holloway case in Aruba. Why do so many people seem to care so much? I’m very sorry for…

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:25:13 +0000

widely reported missing persons do seem to be disproportionally female

…so take your daughters to the range *today*

By: Justene

Justene — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 02:17:15 +0000

During the Elizabeth Smart case, there was at least one Fox News story about the unreported missing persons, who disappeared in just as mysterious circumstances but who weren’t in that attractive white category.

When Laci Peterson went missing, I thought it was the pregnancy that brought in the press. I did a blog piece about another non-white woman also pregnant, but unreported to the same degree.

I think I could show that bias but I’d need access to all missing persons files and then I’d have to work out how to determine what category they fall in and whether they are missing in a way that the media usually covers them. (Abduction by noncustodial parents would be filtered out.)

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:45:41 +0000

Could be. Then again, maybe political office just isn’t the chick magnet it once was.

By: Pigilito

Pigilito — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:05:33 +0000

Politicians, especially democrats, have really lowered their standards over the last several decades.

JFK may have been the zenith, while Clinton seems to have found (plumbed?) the nadir. Even goofy Ike had a pretty hot aide in WWII (may have been platonic only).

These days “attractive” means little more than available and willing.

In this respect I long for the good old days.