Although missing persons and murders in the United States are the victims of all demographic groups, middle-class young white women dominate as victims in media coverage. Source: pexels.comWithin a year, even 17 1000 people are considered missing in Poland. In the United States, this number is over half a million. These statistic are shocking, due to the fact that we would gotta hear about any missing persons on tv all day, and we usually find out about them occasionally. Each of us will mention at least the 3 best known criminal cases. However, most likely each of these cases has the same archetype of the main character.
The American dream, or favoritism?
White missing womensyndrome- involves a greater interest in the disappearances of white, attractive middle-class women than people with another physical or another social characteristics. This phenomenon is profoundly embedded in the western subconscious—no 1 plans to have his attention settled on a poster of a cute blonde he could even date. However, this phenomenon stems from a profoundly rooted cultural background that plays the main violin in many cases. This is an example of the United States - that's where the celebrated ice cream van associated with kid abductions or photos of the youngest missing on milk cartons comes from.
It is not hard to announcement that the most celebrated American criminal cases are spoken of most frequently in the context of a white girl, or teenagers, from the suburbs, mediate class, dressed in bows, kidnapped by a pervert who takes her life and then dumps her in the swamp. In the Gabby Petito case, American society began to take into account the fact that for many years, both millions of average people and the thirsty media audiences could have been the origin of the missing white woman's syndrome. A syndrome that divides the victims for better and worse, forcing the audience to interpret the facts. Gabby Petito was a young blonde who pursued her travel passion with her fiancé. The perfect image of a couple in love loved by many Americans. It all ended erstwhile he murdered her and then killed himself. This case has gained large media interest. So large that this led to a social debate, whether truly a individual of a different race than a white individual could anticipate a akin media interest in her disappearance. It should not substance whether we're talking about a white female or a dark-skinned man. And yet it's not.
Polish archetype of the victim
Every country is simply a stereotype. In Poland, the most celebrated are the disappearances of not sweet, innocent girls, but young women, who at first are called at least a free spirit.’ You can even call it inverted syndrome, due to the fact that hatred sometimes even kicks out of the audience erstwhile they see a poster of a girl coming home alone from a organization disappearing without a trace., A informing for all chicks, don't take stupid pictures for mirrors, due to the fact that then in specified a situation they won't have average to show”, , If I visit Albanian brothels on the delegation, I'll look around...’- it's just a fewer entries from the 2010 Iwona Evening announcement. Whether the girl would have found herself immediately or would we have remained on the current course of history, we will always find the public belief that her beauty is the reason for the crime. Since the rape in Ronald Reagan Park (a very vast area, resembling a tiny forest), by kidnapping into a public house, to the provision of sexual services to the tri-city mob. And they might be good leads, due to the fact that if she's attractive, she might have liked the psychopath, or the gangsters knew the customers would be curious in her. But these conclusions are based on appearance. And should it be said, "Why shouldn't individual rape her erstwhile she's so pretty?"
The same was actual of the most celebrated Poznań missing - Eve Tylman. Her death was most likely an accident that comes to head erstwhile you perceive to this story. She comes back drunk with her friend from the party, the last time they're seen together close St. Roch's Bridge, and then for a fewer months there's no woman. Her body is found in Wart. It seems the most likely 2 ways-- execution or accident. An crucial part of the puzzle is the fact that Eva's friend was besides heavy influenced by alcohol, so if he had killed, then in passion, and in specified a version he would most likely have admitted rapidly by intellectual stress. But the investigators had a different imagination that night. According to them, Adam Z. (Eva’s friend) wanted to bring her closer to her friend, while she ran distant from him, fell into the river or pushed her there herself out of anger. Yes, it could have been, and the police believed it very strongly. They didn't even want to challenge their thesis after Adam Z. admitted that he was different from heterosexual and that he was not curious in women. According to his testimony, Eve ran herself toward Warta, and the full tragedy happened through alcohol. But a female was attractive adequate that why wouldn't a homosexual want to rape her, plus a long-term friend? This may be a common motive for the crime, but the Eva Tylman case has as many as 2 victims—a female who lost her life and her best friend, who spends the evening with her friend and does not leave her alone, is charged with attempted rape and murder. And I don't think being aware of sexual force should be based on the fact that a young girl will always be raped, and individual else is not necessarily, but if that female is hurt, she's beautiful adequate to be insulted. The missing white woman's syndrome in Poland is simply a very complicated thought process.
It is the same phenomenon, and it looks completely different in different cultures. Regardless of the approach to victims, no of these are affirmative for the missing. Accusing the victims of asking themselves to be murdered or assuming that only kidnapping a white innocent girl could be a real crime alternatively than another circumstances. Media should aid in specified matters, not choose who the poster about disappearing is aesthetic adequate to show it on TV. People are behind the ratings of the programs, as are missing persons statistics.
Aleksandra KĘJERSKA
