At least her murder was reported. Most prostitute murders don't even blip on the media's radar.

That wasn't reporting that was slut shaming and victim blaming at its best.

It's also more of a freak show type heading. There will probably be jokes about it, and the media is not seriously reporting the crime to find justice.

Didn't mean to excuse the slut shaming and victim bashing. I just get frustrated with the total news blackout when it comes to these Women. In my local news I hear about co-eds being abducted all the way across the country but nothing about a Dozen or so woman murdered every year in my town Portland.
They don't slut sham these people in my media market..It's as if they don't even exist..

I posted this over at Feministe but I'll never forget the Post's headline when Ike Turner died: "Ike Beats Tina to Death" Ugh, this is par for the course as far as these asshats are concerned.

I've rarely been in an area where the New York Post was available, so I can't speak to the quality of its headlines... outside the ones posted here, which are appalling. It took me five minutes to figure out what the Ike and Tina one was even talking about, but the use of violence for humour's sake is disgusting. And the use of scare quotes around words like "rape" is hilarious, especially since the man had apparently been convicted.

Of course, I'm living in the UK right now and I find headlines here ridiculous. They use quotation marks around words within a headline ten times more often than I'm used to seeing, which always makes it look like they don't believe whoever said it. I believe it's because the slander laws are stricter here, but then again I only got that information from the Daily Show when they were reporting on rumours that Prince Charles might be gay. (The word choice is also usually so bad that you can't tell anything at all about the story from the headline.) We're always seeing words like "rape," "beaten" and "attacked" in scare quotes.

For me, the worst part is that this story was filed under "funny" on reddit.

Disgusting, as usual. The Post isn't worthy of use as litter box liner or fireplace kindling. One thing that makes me glad I left NYC is not having to have their crap headlines jump out at me every bloody day.

I agree with Renee and RiotGrrl that this article has nothing to do with justice for the woman involved, or raising public awareness that violence against any human being is equally horrendous. The head-line itself gives the game away in using the term "one-legged" to describe the woman. Her disability is made a major focus of the article, and mentioned many times. Also, they just had to let us all know that she'd been arrested 67 times for prostitution. There wasn't too much about the murder itself, except that some "john" hit her over the head while she was allegedly "servicing" him, and that they haven't got a suspect.

I see two major themes in this article. The first is the "freak show" aspect in that the woman had one leg. The second is that so much is made of her being a sex worker, and therefore deemed as somehow contributing to her own demise, particularly when the article lets us know that she was probably hit while having sex.

The horror of a woman's brutal killing is buried beneath the perceived entertainment value the article has for this newspaper's readers, and the assumption that her death is somehow less awful because she is a sex-worker, and a one-legged one at that!

I like how prostitutes are always "Slain" rather than "Murdered". Have hordes of vampires taken to prostitution and nobody told me?

I hate to be the one to make this joke, but Alex101, that brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "sucky sucky" - now that's a "sucky sucky" I would pay to receive! Eternal life.. yeah it might be crap in some ways, but hey if it's only $5 then I'm totally there!

Isn't that a tad innappropriate given what the topic is here? Doesn't an actual person, who is no longer alive after being murdered deserve a little more? Maybe I'm just a little sensitive about these things I don't know.

If that's to me - I always forget that irony does not travel well online.

I think it's disgraceful how the murdering of some of societies most vulnerable people is so often demoted from murder of a person to the vanquishing of a thing.

Goanna, are you fucking kidding? Alex101 made a valid point about dehumanizing euphemisms, but we're talking about a murdered woman here -- and I doubt anyone else was dying to make that joke, like you seem to think they were.

yeah, Goanna, i know it's hard to resist making vampire prostitute jokes sometimes, but this may not have been the best time for it.

this headline is disgusting. seriously. disgusting. i can't imagine how hard this woman's life must've been to that point... sex work is never easy and this world (and particularly new york) is not built for people with disabilities... that the post could be so crass and dehumanizing is not that much of a surprise, but that doesn't make it any harder to read. ugh.

So, when they make a headline like this- does a contest start to see how many times they can reference her being handicapped and a prostitute within the article? It seems to be restated ad naseum (4 and 5, respectively)

Really, it's disgusting. A person died. Don't turn her whole time on this earth into a freak show.