I’ve changed my mind about Lindsay Clancy, anyone else?

[KellyK2026]

Awhile ago I posted a Thread about Lindsay Clancy and I was defending her. I have, however, changed my mind a little. To me, the crime was so horrific and (I thought) rare. Then I learnt that 50-59% of filicide cases (where a parent kills their own kid) are committed by women. This is frankly startling, but it raised a few questions for me:

• Is Lindsay Clancy really the exception to these other women who have been prosecuted for their crimes?
• Granted, she had mental health problems, but don’t most people (men and women) who are in the prison system?
• What is going on to make so many women resort to this?
• Would the sympathy for her case be the same if she was a man experiencing mental health issues or anyone other than an attractive white middles class woman?

Interested to know what others think.

All of the points you are considering are misjudged and misguided.

Look up post partum psychosis. Understand the context of its absence from the DSM. Try to figure out why, in the US, prosecutors tend to go ahead with cases against women in these circumstances.

Look into the specific circumstances of the Boston police and prosecutors, their biases, and the communities they come from and have allegiance to.

Yes but there’s other mental disorders. Look up Chris Benoit. He killed his wife and son. When they scanned his brain he had significant brain damage and his brain age was that of an 80 year old. I don’t think anyone would make excuses for him.

FFS! Yet another thread you've started trying to convince us all that women are the root of all evil. We've heard it all before. Go bang another drum.

Hang on, my initial thread was in defence of Lindsay Clancy. If you don’t like the Threads I start you don’t have to read them or participate.

Men will never experience postpartum psychosis, it’s scary and can be life changing. She isn’t innocent but she wasn’t in her right mind.

Chris Benoit had a TBI didn’t he, and killed hinself? He murdered his wife one day, his son the next and then himself - huge tragedy, awful. I’m not entirely sure they’re comparable?

I’m not convinced she did it at all. So many inconsistencies in the case and seems the police didn’t investigate at all, took her husbands word on what happened and arrested her immediately.

Benoit had significant brain damage from his career as a wrestler. No, it’s not the same as postpartum psychosis but both will make you act out of character. He was successful in killing himself.

If we say Clancy definitely had postpartum psychosis then I think we would need to review all women and men committed of similar acts to see if they too had some brain condition.

How about you stop visiting my Threads instead of telling people what they can and can’t post? Just because you don’t agree with my opinions doesn’t mean I’m not entitled to post them. Or are you that narcissistic that you think Threads should pander to you?

I just want to make sure that anyone who might get drawn into a debate with you thinking you want a genuine discussion is aware that this thread is just part of your wider agenda.

Wider agenda? So what was my agenda when I posted my defence of Clancy? Or was that OK according to you because it fit with your opinions? And saying I hate women is like me saying you hate children because you support Clancy. It’s just weird.

Where did I say I support Clancy?

Can it really be postpartum psychosis when the baby is 8 months old?

I don't really get your point about Chris Benoit. It is absolutely heartbreaking what happened to him and would suggest he was massively let down by his employers. I believe safeguards have since been implemented to reduce the risk of this happening again.

Yes it can. I have a close friend with PPP. She was still delusional and in hospital at 8 months PP. she didn’t get back to ‘normal’ until about 18 months PP.

The fact you’re on here saying that my Thread is somehow anti-women because I’ve gone from supporting Clancy to thinking differently about it since learning more about it. Why that should irk you or you think that’s anti-woman isn’t based on fact, it’s based on the fact that you can’t seem to handle someone having a different opinion. I consider myself a feminist but I adhere to bell hook’s concept of intersectional feminism that advises against shying away from female acts of violence. I also don’t see males as the problem. I see patriarchy as the problem which both males and females participate in.

I agree, it was incredibly sad. But I don’t think his condition was widely publicised. It does make you wonder how many women and men are in the prison system who may be suffering from brain damage/psychosis. And I’m not sure the jury would’ve found him not guilty, but I guess we will never know.

Life in a psychiatric facility either way

I agree that’s probably the best scenario.

No, I'm saying you're clearly anti-women based on your Groundhog Day-like posts across various threads.

I actually clicked on this thread thinking it might be an interesting read because I'm undecided regarding Clancy. Only to be disappointed to see it was your thread. Zero chance of a balanced debate now.

A good friend of mine suffered from PPP. She is still heavily medicated to this day, with frequent sections. Her child is 34 years old.

This is what happens when you get your information from TikTok.

Anti-women because I dared to mention female perpetrated violence? Yes, because pretending that it doesn’t exist is definitely the way to go 🫠

Nobody is forcing you to be here. The X is at the top of the page.

If I’m correct, PPP can officially last until the first two years after giving birth. Not sure it can be classed as PPO after that.

The heightened killings of infants is due to portpartum psychosis and other mental health emergencies that are underfunded and underresearched.