Friday 1 February 2013

'Only cultured, upper-middle class western women exist', says the Media

The media is obsessed with missing upper-middle class western women. Whenever there is extensive media coverage about a person who goes missing, such that protests are sparked, politicians find themselves having to answer questions, and there is hate sites about a victimiser, that person is almost always an upper-middle class western woman. Anyone else who goes missing is sure to not receive anywhere as much attention, unless the family works hard to campaign for safety such as the Morcombe family. The campaign it led was certainly not an aggressive one, like the one led by feminists after Jill Meagher was murdered. This has been dubbed the "Missing White Woman Syndrome".

I myself am not sure why this is the case. However, I can speculate that it is because upper-middle class western women are probably more valued than anyone else simply because majority of society believes that they contribute, and are sensible, smart and intelligent. In the eyes of the media, everyone else is probably not as sensible, smart or intelligent and hence, it is partially their fault or their family's fault, or friends' fault when they go missing. It may also be because majority of journalists are upper-middle class western women and so most of them feel more strongly about their own, compared to when a person of another group is missing. This ilk of biased feminist journalists more likely than not want to get their own voice heard while ignoring that of others. They should be ashamed of themselves.

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