I wish my friend who was killed by using statistical evidence instead of anecdotes, could have read this. He might still be alive. Statistically, probably not, but anecdotally, he totally could be alive.

But, but, but, but .... you've missed the point.

The report doesn't say that it never happens. You need to find another place to grind your ax.

What exactly has she done besides show up in photo ops and bolster her own image? She been the face of lots of people behind the scenes doing the heavy lifting - I give her a lot less credit I guess than you do.

Yes, because I don't feel that someone who engaged in public acts of incest should be speaking for people who have been sexually assaulted or raped. Those people can include people who have been victims at the hands of family members. You don't see the conflict there?

And yet I STILL don't like her. Can't put my finger on why..... oh yeah:

I can't speak for everyone, but while there is some American media I know that is going to drive me nuts (e.g. FOX News) a lot of America-centric stuff tends to come from unexpected sources, which kind of hits me out of nowhere - I'm rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation right now and I can't believe how many…

I was going to make a joke about an American magazine using the correct spelling of "Glamour" but it seems that Americans actually don't drop the "u" in "glamour".

and this is what the rest of the courtroom was wearing.

This actually happens to me all the time because I am in a field that is traditionally male. I will have men who have no specialized knowledge whatsoever in my field try to "educate" me because...a penis and wikipedia are worth more than a vagina and advanced education?

I have one friend who will NOT let any conversation about sexism happen without him telling the ladies that they can't claim sexism, that it can always just be a misunderstanding. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. He only conceded that if a guy called a lady a cunt who doesn't deserve to vote because ladies are too stupid to…

I want to share this to Facebook and I can already name the 3 dudes who will defend "mansplaning". Gaddamn it.

There's absolutely no indication in the article that the ex-boyfriend had been exposed to the syphilis. Nor is there any indication that she had not planned to use the county health department's anonymous notification system. You're making a lot of nasty assumptions based on zero evidence.

Syphilis is cured by a shot of antibiotics, or a few series of shots (depending on how advanced the illness is). Also, health departments have dedicated teams of specialists that track down partners of anyone infected with a reportable STI. ALSO:

Um, nobody was cheering her on, we were all just aware of how little we knew about the situation. By the way, you know just as little as us. Stop making horribly wild assumptions about a situation we are all ignorant about.

Wow, that's a lot of really crazy assumptions about a situation you don't know at all.

You would stop being friends with someone because they got a curable medical condition?

you are a terrible human being. You would see the woman exiled because she caught a 100% treatable illness? From someone else? And no mention off exiling the (cheating) boyfriend if he was infected? Ignorant redneck.

This type of thinking is why people choose to tell no one they've been infected. It's even worse for HIV. No one gets tested cause they are too scared of being labeled a leper.

Do you know if he's a recent enough ex to have got the disease from her? How do you know she refused to inform partners? He sounds abusive, maybe she was weighing her options before telling him. We don't know what happened and I imagine this will come out in the trial.