While the obsessive news coverage of all things missing white women is obscene it does provide an opportunity to observe truly bizarre aspects of our culture. I'll hopefully have more to say about this tomorrow, but until then:
1) Since when is it weird for young adults to travel to foreign countries unchaperoned? (in this case there were chaperones, but the question persists)
2) Why exactly is it that my fellow males seem to think it to be truly insane that females would ever spend time with any of us without numerous chaperones and bodyguards?