# Have all the 20 something blonde white girls been accounted for? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 27, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422 "2005-07-27T16:21:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/21 "2005-07-28T07:45:57Z")
The media gets excited about one or two such missing women at a time- out of a field of thousands. There has to be several “hooks” and often a family that hires a media consultant to get the story out. Nothing to do with race at all- just money. Sure- money is indirectly tied to race, but it’s the _story_, not the skin color. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/22 "2005-07-28T12:04:44Z")
I thought WWWA would stand for “Wild, Wild World of Abductions.” ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/23 "2005-07-28T12:08:04Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > The media gets excited about one or two such missing women at a time- out of a field of thousands. There has to be several “hooks” and often a family that hires a media consultant to get the story out. > > Nothing to do with race at all- just money. Sure- money is indirectly tied to race, but it’s the _story_, not the skin color. It’s money/class, it’s hooks, it’s race. Roughly in that order. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/24 "2005-07-28T13:15:56Z")
Hey, how about the best of both worlds? [Pretty blonde white teenage girl attacked by shark!](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8736938/) Okay, so it isn’t clear if she is pretty, white or blonde, but it is known that the back of her hand was hurt and “Authorities said she had lost some blood.” I feel it was very important for me, here in Pittsburgh, to know about this so that I could plan accordingly. No disrespect to the girl or her family is intended. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/25 "2005-07-29T14:29:03Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Come on. Plenty of women, black and white, are probably ‘missing’ right now, but nobody really cares because there is no ‘hook’ to the story. I can understand the appeal of a hook; a bug-eyed, large-breasted runaway bride may have more appeal among viewers than the daughter of abusive parents who runs away to Seattle. Still, the endless coverage takes away from the time that could be used to report on more important topics. CAFTA? London bombing? Karl Rove? CNN should be renamed the “C Natalee Network”; Larry King seems to be obsessed with her, and about half of the Larry King Show episodes are focused on Natalee. It’s far worse than the “baby in a well” stories that seemed all the rage in the 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/26 "2005-07-29T14:48:00Z")
26 posts and not one reference to JonBenet Ramsey…You guys are slacking. > [@](#): > > Pretty blonde white teenage girl attacked by shark! Luckily for everyone (with the exception of public relations firms, cable news outlets, scrrenplay writers & literary agents), she didn’t lose an arm. I don’t think I’d be able to handle another Bethany Hamilton tour. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/27 "2005-07-29T16:22:37Z")
Well, to be fair, that Jon Benet Ramsey case had something extra going for it – that whole kiddie beauty contest thing she and her parents were involved in had a distinctly weird vibe to it. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/28 "2005-07-30T04:29:50Z")
> [@Hentor the Barbarian](#): > > I feel it was very important for me, here in Pittsburgh, to know about this so that I could plan accordingly. You folks in Pittsburg don’t vacation in Florida? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/29 "2005-07-30T04:36:49Z")
All I know is there are none at my house. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/30 "2005-07-30T04:54:28Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > You know they’re currently draining \* a lake\* in Aruba in hopes of finding some more clues? I bet they wouldn’t drain a lake for my sorry ass. They’re Dutch. Draining fields is in their blood. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/31 "2005-07-30T05:27:41Z")
The Memphis “Commercial Appeal” carried the story of the missing pregnant black woman from Philadelphia on the front page this week. According to the story, there are 48,000 people classified as missing, and 7,000 of those are black women. No further breakdown was provided. That’s a lot of missing people, and the odds of any of them getting a lot of publicity without a hook is pretty small. The missing woman is 24, a looker and pregnant. According to the Commercial Appeal story, she has a relative (an uncle I think) who is a police officer and another relative with some influence (a journalist or lawyer or public official). My memory is faulty, and the story has disappeared from the CA’s web site. If I can find it, I’ll post a link. Meanwhile, [here’s a link](http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/27/Philadelphia.missing/) to a CNN story (with photo). ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/32 "2005-07-30T05:38:36Z")
[Here’s a link](http://trekmedic251.blogspot.com/) (scroll down a bit) that verifies the numbers I gave above. The woman’s cousin is a city councilman. The big hook to this story is that the publicity was initiated by bloggers. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/33 "2005-07-30T05:51:56Z")
> [@Hentor the Barbarian](#): > > Hey, how about the best of both worlds? I dunno. She’s 13 so if I get hot because she’s been injured it’s kinda creepy. :eek: > [@](#): > > No disrespect to the girl or her family is intended. Though i expect some would be taken. We are blessed if none of her relatives post here. Not like that “I told you I was hardcore,” guy. (Was that this board? Wherever it was, we couldn’t make fun of him AT ALL without his bestest buddies it the whole wide world jumping on us.) :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/34 "2005-07-30T14:16:41Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > You folks in Pittsburg don’t vacation in Florida? Well, I can’t speak for Pittsburg, but here in Pittsburg **h** , we have, I think, the second oldest population in the country, so some proportion of Pittsburghers probably does go to Florida. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/35 "2005-07-30T14:18:55Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I dunno. She’s 13 so if I get hot because she’s been injured it’s kinda creepy. :eek: Do you _usually_ get hot over injured (or missing) women? Now that is creepy! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422/36 "2005-07-30T17:04:02Z")
To be fair, I heard about Latoyia days ago on my local news and CNN. Not the same coverage as Lacy Peterson or the runaway bride, but there were stories. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-the-20-something-blonde-white-girls-been-accounted-for/314422.md?page=1)