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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Yep and even typing "normal, incredibly nice girl" has so many connotations that take us back to my very first post on victimology. What's "normal" and whose opinion of "incredibly nice" matters when it comes to garnering attention and sympathy for some victims over others.
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But again, the issue should (well, ok IMO) be made separate from Natalee and her family, as she was a victim, and they (again IMO, since I do not know them) have just done what they could to keep her from being forgotten. And, of course, she is by no means the only example of a media obsession when a pretty young white girl goes missing. (Elizabeth Smart, Jon Benet Ramsay, Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson, Lori Hacking, etc. come to mind). ETA: I think it has a lot to do with "damsel in distress"...especially for the two who were abducted/murdered in childhood and Laci Peterson as she was pregnant...we want to protect them and get caught up in the stories, because they seem helpless or innocent.
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Originally Posted by Animate
As someone from Birmingham I will say that so many people are tired of the media coverage of this story. We wish for closure for her family but to have the wound opened up every few months is annoying to me.
You complain about how people that don't know here are saying this and that yet you didn't know her but claim that she is "normal, incredibly nice girl". How do you know this? She could have been whooping Joran's ass for whatever reason and he pushed back. NO ONE KNOWS; and frankly I'm tired of hearing about it. To put it harshly I don't care. It doesn't affect me at all. I just hope others learn from this story.
Now...when did being Greek mean that you can't have an opinion on issues?
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Just a point, but that's not a general consensus for the residents of Birmingham. Also, she was 5'4" and 110 pounds, while Joran is well over 6 feet, 6'3" IIRC and obviously was much heavier and stronger than she. There's no way she ever came close to "whooping his ass". IMO, the story he told on hidden camera about her seizing and him throwing her in the ocean with the help of a friend (even though he wasn't SURE she was dead) is the closest to the truth.