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16 Jun 2011, 12:21 pm

ever notice how when they report when someone goes missing, they'll only report on it if they're young and attractive and female.

I don't think I've ever seen a middle-aged homely looking man go missing and have the national news pick up on it.

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16 Jun 2011, 4:28 pm

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Young, attractive, white females, yes. Though I believe they have been better about reporting others recently. Tens of thousands of people actually go missing a year in the US and most of them aren't young white females. They come from all walks of life.

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16 Jun 2011, 9:07 pm

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Young attractive females are more likely to go missing because not too many predators want to try and kidnap a balding 45y/o fat guy.

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16 Jun 2011, 9:56 pm

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MasterJedi wrote:

Young attractive females are more likely to go missing because not too many predators want to try and kidnap a balding 45y/o fat guy.

While young attractive females are certainly more likely to be kidnapped by a rapist or serial killer, a significant number of men fall victim to botched robberies and car jackings, or gang hostilities and are never heard from again. Children of all ages, boys and girls fall victim to pedophiles or individuals who kidnap them because they want a child, and all groups are subject to abduction for human trafficking. While the latter primarily affects more girls and women than boys and men, a large number of boys and men are still trafficked.

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16 Jun 2011, 10:02 pm

MasterJedi wrote:

ever notice how when they report when someone goes missing, they'll only report on it if they're young and attractive and female.

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Or a child.

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16 Jun 2011, 10:08 pm

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Or a child.

That kind of fits under the 'young' category, I'd think.

But I'm just messin' with ya... :wink:

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16 Jun 2011, 10:23 pm

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Unless you are in Mexico, that is extremely rare. Most guys that die in robberies get left where they fell and the robber just takes their wallet/drugs/possessions.

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16 Jun 2011, 10:33 pm

Pretty white girls make the news when they go missing.

Link: Mom Logic

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"What do JonBenet Ramsey, Madeleine McCann, Elizabeth Smart and Polly Klaas all have in common? They are all girls who have been abducted -- or in the most tragic cases, killed -- and they are all attractive white girls. Strikingly, the other similarity is all of their stories got massive play in the media during darkest days of their disappearance. The media has always seemed to only be interested in covering stories of white children who go missing -- and pretty ones at that..."

So if your plain, non-white little boy goes missing, chances are that the media won't care.

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16 Jun 2011, 11:08 pm

John_Browning wrote:

Chronos wrote:

Unless you are in Mexico, that is extremely rare. Most guys that die in robberies get left where they fell and the robber just takes their wallet/drugs/possessions.

It happens. Look into it.

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17 Jun 2011, 12:05 am

Fnord wrote:

Pretty white girls make the news when they go missing.

Link: Mom Logic

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So if your plain, non-white little boy goes missing, chances are that the media won't care.

The local media here covers all missing children-especially the ones that are believed to be with a stranger. In fact, most of the cases I hear about aren't white. Most of them are family disputes. Over the years I've come to wonder if kidnappings ending in an armed standoff with the cops is socially acceptable as a form of child custody mediation hearing in Mexico. You rarely see other groups do that. Black kids tend to be abducted from a relative who is their legal guardian and usually turn up safe a few hours to a few days later. In once case the news anchor added what street corners to look for the wanted mother at. :lol:

I don't see as many stories about missing white kids as other races. I don't know if there are fewer cases or if they are mostly abducted by family members who are not considered as volatile or what the deal is. I'd be a little curious to know. You see stories about missing old people from time to time, but I'm kind of surprised that there rarely are any stories about missing developmentally disabled people (unless they tend to be found quickly).

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17 Jun 2011, 12:07 am

Chronos wrote:

John_Browning wrote:

Chronos wrote:

Unless you are in Mexico, that is extremely rare. Most guys that die in robberies get left where they fell and the robber just takes their wallet/drugs/possessions.

It happens. Look into it.

Where do I start? Maybe it's an east coast thing, but around here, most criminals take whatever valuables are on a person and run.

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27 Jun 2011, 2:45 pm

Jimmy Hoffa got alot of coverage whe he vanished, as did Judge Crater.

Same with Bradford Bishop.

Children of both genders get alot of coverage when they disappear (like Kaylee Anthony).

Young women and children are more frequently kidnapped and killed by serial killers.

Very few serial killers target mature men.

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