I knew about minimum sentencing and our desperate need for prison reform, but through Mr. Veldez' exquisite, painstaking work that explained everything in heartbreaking detail, I now learn about this horrific "girlfriend problem". For a country that prides itself on innovation, the patriarchy sure has a knack for coming up with the cruelest of boneheaded "solutions" that do nothing but inflict the greatest harm on the greatest number of people.