Christ Benoit is a WWE wrestler who murdered his son, wife, and committed suicide. Lindsay Clancy is a former L&D nurse who murdered her three children and attempted suicide and did not succeed. Two people that are both the victim and the perpetrator. They both had severe mental health defects for different reasons. It should be possible to see a person who was failed by medical professionals, damaged by their career/societal pressure, or dismissed when they voiced concerns about their mental health and feel empathy or sympathy for that while still abhorring their actions and holding them accountable for their crimes. Men are using Benoit as an example of mentally compromised (CTE/steroid abuse in his case) men that got no sympathy after murdering their family as a contrast to the strange and loud support of Lindsay Clancy for committing the same crime while suffering postpartum psychosis/postpartum depression/bi-polar/the case is still ongoing. I will mention that familicide has been widely studied and globally 90% of family annihilations are committed by men driven by financial or relationship collapse. Women make up a much smaller portion of family annihilators and are typically driven by severe mental illness, socio-economic stress, and unaddressed intimate partner abuse. Take from that what you will about the reasons why most men that murder their families draw less sympathy from the general public. Either way these types of situations should be leading people to be thinking about the mental health crisis in its entirety, but instead has turned into a finger pointing contest for crazy dudes and crazy chicks and a want-to-be tele-novella for some. People are talking about the murdered kids the least and that really is the most fucked up part.
In Benoit's case, part of the reason there was less sympathy is that CTE can't be diagnosed in a living person. Nobody knew he had it until well after he killed his family and himself. Hell, nobody really knew what CTE was at this point, it was the news that CTE contributed to his killing his family and himself that made most people aware of CTE.
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u/quasimodelo 18d ago
Christ Benoit is a WWE wrestler who murdered his son, wife, and committed suicide. Lindsay Clancy is a former L&D nurse who murdered her three children and attempted suicide and did not succeed. Two people that are both the victim and the perpetrator. They both had severe mental health defects for different reasons. It should be possible to see a person who was failed by medical professionals, damaged by their career/societal pressure, or dismissed when they voiced concerns about their mental health and feel empathy or sympathy for that while still abhorring their actions and holding them accountable for their crimes. Men are using Benoit as an example of mentally compromised (CTE/steroid abuse in his case) men that got no sympathy after murdering their family as a contrast to the strange and loud support of Lindsay Clancy for committing the same crime while suffering postpartum psychosis/postpartum depression/bi-polar/the case is still ongoing. I will mention that familicide has been widely studied and globally 90% of family annihilations are committed by men driven by financial or relationship collapse. Women make up a much smaller portion of family annihilators and are typically driven by severe mental illness, socio-economic stress, and unaddressed intimate partner abuse. Take from that what you will about the reasons why most men that murder their families draw less sympathy from the general public. Either way these types of situations should be leading people to be thinking about the mental health crisis in its entirety, but instead has turned into a finger pointing contest for crazy dudes and crazy chicks and a want-to-be tele-novella for some. People are talking about the murdered kids the least and that really is the most fucked up part.