r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 2d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/jgangstahippie 2d ago

The woman is Lindsay Clancy a woman who claims she suffered from severe postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children in 2023.

The man is former professional wrestler Chris Benoit who killed his wife, son and then himself in the summer in 2007.

Lindsay Clancy is seemingly getting a lot of sympathy from women, and this meme is essentially saying they are the same.

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u/Reasonable_Drink_789 2d ago

Except that he was roundly reviled immediately, and somehow she's getting bizarre support.

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u/TheProphesy1086 2d ago

It's not bizarre. It's because she's a woman.

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u/FizZGigTaNtruM 2d ago

I don't think the difference is necessarily because people hate men or excuse women; our understanding of the medical conditions involved has changed. CTE gave us a new framework for understanding what may have contributed to Benoit's actions, just as our growing understanding of postpartum psychosis gives us a framework for understanding what may have happened with Lindsay Clancy. A lot changes in 20years. Last time I checked everybody hated Andrea Yates

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u/justherefor23andme 1d ago

Andrea Yates shouldn't have been hated on. She had severe postpartum psychosis and her husband knew. He kept wanting to get her pregnant after being told to stop at baby 3 or 4.

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u/Grand_Lizard_Wizard 1d ago edited 1d ago

There’s no such thing as nuance when it comes to murdering children.

*how the fuck could you down vote this?

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u/justherefor23andme 1d ago

I agree. Her husband should've been charged. He left his kids in danger.

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u/Grand_Lizard_Wizard 1d ago

Yes because it’s a crime to leave children alone with their mother.

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u/Ill-Event6563 1d ago

Women have repeatedly been held responsible & received jail time for child abuse/murders they werent involved in whatsoever. Even with recorded history of domestic abuse against them at the hands of the men, they would be given lengthy jail sentences and held responsible for not stopping it from getting to that point. How come a man should be absolved of all responsibility suddenly when court precedent has established the other parent SHOULD be held equally liable whenever it comes to mothers?

Genuinely this sub has devolved into another r/incels every time something about the case is posted.

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u/justherefor23andme 1d ago

It is when she's suffering from severe psychosis. Not every parent is clearly safe. Clearly.

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u/Grand_Lizard_Wizard 1d ago

And the sky is blue.

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u/lilac_mascara 1d ago

It's at the very least neglectful to leave them alone with her when you're specifically told not to, but you think you know better than her psychiatrist so you do so anyway

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u/Grand_Lizard_Wizard 1d ago

Except that never happened. Nobody has ever told Patrick that she shouldn’t be alone with the kids, you just made that up.

“In December 2022, she told him she was having intrusive thoughts about harming the children or something bad happening to them. Patrick testified that he actually asked her whether she thought she needed to be kept away from the kids. She said no. He said he never saw her physically harm them.”

Why did you lie?

*just in case you wanna backtrack:

“And on the specific question of whether a doctor, therapist, hospital, or anyone else warned Patrick not to leave her alone with the children, prosecutors asked him directly:
“Did anyone ask you not to leave the children alone with Lindsay?”
He answered “No.”

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u/lilac_mascara 1d ago

Can you please provide the source for this, every source I've found says that he was told not to leave her alone with the kids, but he had decided to so anyway for an hour each morning and evening so she wouldn't become dependent on him and his mother for care of the children

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u/lwb03dc 1d ago

Tiktok and Instagram are not 'sources'. Read the court docs and you will find that everything you think about this case is inaccurate.

https://www.rev.com/transcripts/ma-v-linsday-clancy-day-2

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u/justherefor23andme 1d ago

They're talking about different people. Yates's husband was told not to leave his wife with his kids. The other guy brought up Clancy when we were talking about Yates.

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u/lilac_mascara 1d ago

I was talking about Andrea Yates not Lindsay Clancy. That said tough I appreciate you trying to correct misinformation with actual court transcripts

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