I don’t think anybody says it’s wrong to care, but it’s instructive that she got a blitz of worldwide media attention when LGBTQ activists, for example, will write about the disappearance of a black transgender woman and pretty much nobody in the world gives a shit.

Maybe LGBTQ Nation or Pink News will pick up the story, and a major network might (possibly) do a one-paragraph story in their digital news feed.

But front page treatment in the New York Times as happened with the Petito case yesterday? That’s a pipe dream. Just not going to happen.

I tweeted yesterday about an unsolved homicide that the Los Angeles Blade (a publication I write for) is devoting a lot of investigative journalism and coverage to. A native American transgender man was murdered, and his family want answers.

I have over 17,000 followers on Twitter. Know how many retweets I got for that LA Blade story? Nine. I could not even break into the double digits.

So yeah, it’s not wrong to care about Gaby Petito, but the fact that we as a society care so intensely about her, while we literally ignore high rates of violence and murder against marginalized minorities is a big problem.

A really big problem.