Reply #56: You seem intelligent

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There is a difference b/w having "a problem with disproportionate media coverage of missing white women" AND making derogatory, bigoted, stereotyped, dehumanizing comments about the real people involved, dismissing them as "blonde white girls" "dead white chicks" etc. These show up too often in "liberal" rhetoric, including on DU, including in OP Titles, including this morning.

Trivializing the issue by dehumanizing the women involved is bigoted. The people doing it while they think they are criticizing the media, are perpetuating the stereotypes and contributing to the problem. They are feeding right into the media hand that they supposedly object to.

Because it is "only" women, it's not seen -- by some -- for the bigotry it is.

Your wife may see the problem and still find a way to talk about it without yapping about "blonde white girls" or "dead blonde white chicks."

It's possible to do both. :hi:



Marie26 (1000+ posts)  Sun Sep-03-06 10:13 AM
Response to Reply #22
36. Not to mention
that it seems to extend to any story about a female victim of crime. I can't remember how many times I've read DU'ers dismiss a story about a woman who was murdered or abused w/derision & whines about Natalie Holloway. Even when Jill Carroll was kidnapped, numerous DU'ers called her a "blonde white girl" distraction, despite the fact that she was a respected journalist captured in a war zone. That would have been a big story no matter what, but because the American journalist was a young woman, the story was dismissed by some people. That's where it crosses the line into outright sexism, IMO.

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H2O Man (1000+ posts)  Sun Sep-03-06 10:16 AM
Response to Reply #9
41. True.
Our goal should be building a foundation of knowledge, building upon that base with passion and compassion, and making progress through enlightenment. The rabid thinking that results in the ugly anti- white, blonde females, exposes the sickness in some of the democratic left. Attempting to justify this virus of hatred by pointing to a fault in the corporate media is shameful.