It fucking sucks. And she seems to have been such an interesting, beautiful human being.

As I mentioned, when we can talk in a measured, rational way about providing treatment for people because it is the humane thing to do for them and their families. Any discussion about treating mental illness as a way to reduce violent crime is probably going to fail because mentally ill people don’t commit the…

I understand your viewpoint, however, the author of this piece has had extensive, apparently worldwide investigation into exorcisms as practiced by multiple sects. That they have arrived at the conclusion that much of exorcism is gender based, especially in patriarchal groups, is extremely important.

It’s framing at work.

The way we deal with the problem of mental illness in our country is by destigmatizing and treating it. We stop only talking about mental illness in the context of violence — because the vast majority of mentally ill people are not violent. We stop believing that anytime someone does something terrible “they must be…

Any sideshow is more interesting than allowing her to be a victim like any other female victim. All of these posts on this company’s sites have taken away the DV and made it about demons or Morgan Freeman.

People will really say anything to excuse killers.

Between the exorcism and the “she daaaaated Morgan Freeman” canard, this woman’s life and death belong to her less and less. So gross.

Everybody who excuses this murderer is no better than him and who ever starts with that mental health problem excuse is setting women 50 years back and I consider him partly responsible for culture that will bring more and more and more dead women. In my country, there is an outrage, we have 6 million people living…

“Now I have encountered many weird and unexplained things, but a real possession is incredibly rare and through my 30 years doing this I can not viably claim to have ever encountered one.”

This is yet another reason why religion is utter crap. Honestly, I’ve no idea why women even subscribe to any religious faith, since they’re all designed to dominate them and prop up males. Believe in god, but you can’t be a priest or Pope.

I think it’s more that no one is willing to try to do anything about it. The answer is feminism. The patriarchy is a pretty good deal if you’re a man, so taking that on isn’t really their first priority. Feminists can yell and scream all we want but the patriarchy is so powerful there are women who say they don’t need…

I think maybe it’s a defensive thing. We retain some shred of hope we can fix mental health problems or even religious issues to an extent but yet another woman murdered by her partner is more frightening because I don’t think anyone knows what the hell we do about it.

Just reading this title made me realize that in movies and stories I hear, I don’t ever think I’ve ever heard of man being possessed or needing an exorcism. And I also don’t think I’ve heard of a woman performing an exorcism. I’m not saying those scenarios don’t exist, but the Hollywood depiction and the stories that…

E’Dena Hines was not exorcised. She was murdered, allegedly at the hands of her boyfriend. Which is much more mundane, and much more frightening.

E’Dena Hines was not exorcised. She was murdered, allegedly at the hands of her boyfriend. Which is much more mundane, and much more frightening.