I hope someone is keeping track of women murdered by present or former partners the way the Post is tracking deaths by shooting. Would be illuminating to see it all in one place.

I can respect that.

It’s a shame, you know? This judge had such a bright judiciary career in front of him, it is just a shame that this one little verdict will mess up his entire future.

Just remember that every murder of a woman by her intimate partner is somehow a completely isolated incident, just like every mass shooting.

I think that promiscuity is actually a fairly common coping mechanism for sexual assault victims...

I swear to dog, if you dig down into these attitudes it always boils down to a modern day ducking. A woman, even if the only reason you know her name is because she was the victim of a crime, is only truly innocent if she dies. If she lives, she’s still a witch and it’s somehow all her fault.

Right?! What the fuck? How can someone going to a party a year after a gang rape be used against them? So, she wasn’t destroyed enough to stop attempting to have a normal life so fuck her and her case? This asshole.

Persky made a controversial evidentiary ruling which allowed the jury to view seven photographs of the alleged victim “partying about a year or so after the alleged gang rape. In the photos, she is scantily clad, wearing a garter belt and what appear to be fishnet stockings.”

Don’t worry. Ice-T will save us. He cares now

A friend of mine was a very very young single mom, and one day, she calls me sobbing that the baby puked, and it was so bad, she puked on the baby.

Hoo boy. Okay so I didn’t witness any of what started it, but apparently the kid who’d puked on me and this girl had sex in her tent and my friend that I was down there to visit completely got the wrong idea and thought he’d raped her. So he gets royally pissed off, as any decent human being would do, and marches off…

I actually work a lot with dental insurance. It is a scam, if you don’t have it through an employer and pay like $5 a month for it.

You can always try getting it covered under medical. I had the removal of a tooth and local anasthetic covered under medical insurance

I’m so sorry — I’ve been there. My last job was a contract position, and I was very excited when the company had to offer me medical insurance because I worked 40+ hours a week. It came through just when I was having a lot of severe digestive issues that necessitated a lot of doctor/specialist visits, and I thought it…

Yup. I’m someone who’s paying $350/mo for healthcare and can’t afford to use it due to ridiculous copays, deductibles, and “we ain’t payin’ for that” statements. So I’m just paying off the healthcare mafia monthly.

I remember in the pre-ACA days, reading an article on the consumerist about a woman who went to the hospital because she was bleeding out of her nipples. Like, lactation, but with blood. This, I think, is a fairly typical response to NIPPLE BLEEDING. it turned out to be nothing (or well, not nothing, but something…

Insurance companies are just horrible when it comes to anything breast related.

Yeah, he never stopped being a predator he just became a better one.

dozens of photos of unidentified black women were found at Franklin’s home

I remember once thinking I wanted to do this kind of work, work with interpol. I think I would lose my goddamn mind. I don’t know how they do it, I could never live with those images in my head. I sometimes can’t undo what I read, so I can’t imagine what it must be like to see it.