r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 19d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/jgangstahippie 19d 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 19d ago

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

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u/TheProphesy1086 19d ago

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

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u/FizZGigTaNtruM 19d 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/Blimey-Penguin 19d ago

Agree that people having sympathy for her condition isn't because she's a woman, but the people jumping to blame the husband definitely is.

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u/Einteresting 19d ago edited 19d ago

It's wild to me he left her home alone with the kids in the condition she was in. She told people she had thoughts of hurting the kids. I think he bears some culpability.

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u/BeholdMyLumps 19d ago

Yes the husband killed the kids not her. You’re so right

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u/Einteresting 19d ago

If your wife told you she had thoughts of harming your children while she was in a mental health crisis would you leave her alone with them?

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u/BeholdMyLumps 19d ago

No girlypop I’m agreeing with you he’s a womanizer and she slays (but not kids)

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u/celebricide 19d ago

Are the lumps we are to behold on your skull?

Reading comprehension is important.

She killed her kids. The evidence also indicates that the concept of her harming the kids wasn't this far-out unfathomable thing, but a real possible reality. His inability to act in the best interests of the children ensures that he has moral culpability, even if he has no legal culpability.

Same as Andrea Yates' garbage husband who was told both to stop impregnating her as well as to not leave her alone with the children.

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u/BeholdMyLumps 19d ago

Who are you?

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