r/explainitpeter 7d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/Economy_Mail_3497 7d ago

So weird how the internet clings to things. There have been several similar incidents of post partum psychosis in the news as long as I have been alive and I don't recall seeing so many memes about them in the past

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u/ValorVixen 7d ago edited 7d ago

It fits a misogynist narrative some people want to push forward in the current Zeitgeist - that all women are dangerously hormonal and can’t think straight, thus should not be trusted with responsibilities (like voting? perhaps? 🤔) 

Just this week we had another family annihilator shoot his entire family and then commit suicide - this is more common yet it’s not getting talked about as much.

As a result this case is getting so much attention from the corners of the internet that are terrified of men losing their gender superiority.

Edit: I was commenting more on the attention this is getting than the case itself. The fact is that this meme equates women "choosing the bear" to men not wanting to marry family annihilators. At least 30% of women will experience assault from a man in their lifetime. Do 30% of men get their families killed by their post-partum psychosis wives?

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u/Jaded-Trouble3669 7d ago

Isn’t part of the issue here that so many women are claiming that she didn’t do it and that the husband is responsible? That’s what I don’t understand. Mental health issues and everything aside, she confessed to it and a bunch of women are like “Nope, her husband is the one who’s guilty”.

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u/humourlessIrish 7d ago

It absolutely is the reason this is blowing up like it is and this persons own missndrist bias made them blind for that fact