Maybe you should have read the whole article.
Your conclusion after reading all of it could be different from mine, but Miss Johnson seems to be just stating the facts as she sees them. She doesn’t appear to think of herself as a hero. She says that she stays in contact with the others who were captured...that Miss Lynch was a friend before the capture, and remains a friend today.
I’m basing my opinion entirely on this article. I’m not familiar with whatever else has happened regarding Johnson. However,evidence of the accuracy of her statement about meeting the guidelines for what is considered by the media to be physically attractive is borne out in countless stories that have garnered extended high-profile coverage as opposed to other similar stories that have not.
She believes that her race also had some bearing on the type of attention she received. That’s possible. There’s some evidence of that in media coverage too. But, it’s probably more likely that she would have had more attention from the media, regardless of race, if she had been thinner and prettier.
IOW, she thinks she was found “guilty” physically. Some folks here at FR know what I’m sayin’.
Oh please, Lucy..............look at HER own opening words. I rest my case.
The thing is that none of the women did anything special, but if you read post 26, then you can see that it was thought that Jessica Lynch had made a heroic fight, which would have made her one of the great female combatants in history, that would have created the media frenzy, not the fact that she was a cute, white girl that was only injured and captured, the same as Johnson was.
This entire incident was a great humiliation and a terrible insult to the men that fought bravely that day.
It seems as if the reporters are highlighting her comments about receiving less attention. The woman wrote a book that surely must be about more than that. But, the reporters have everyone focusing on that one small part of the story - her feelings about some lack of attention.
I wonder, though... if any of the men who were captured had commented about the lack of attention given to them because they weren’t cute young girls, wouldn’t most people here agree with them?
All that said, Lynch herself was uncomfortable with the attention and the original story sold to the public. If I were in Shoshana’s shoes, I’d be glad to be the one not receiving much attention.
If she looked like Halle Berry, race wouldn’t have been an issue...