Lindsay Clancy, and How Women Have Lost the Plot

It has to stop

A few months ago, I wrote a piece here asking, “Who’s Going to Challenge the Women?” My premise was that young men have received a lot of tough love, and it has been a good thing for them.

At the same time, women have received nothing but coddling in the media and in the church, and it is not doing them any favors. They need someone to lovingly but firmly give them a course correction away from the path of feminism.

Now, the world is seeing that truth in 4KHD.

The Lindsay Clancy case is making it painfully clear that modern women are in a horrible way.

For those of you who aren’t heavily online and aren’t familiar with the case (and bless you for it), Lindsay Clancy was a married mom of three who sank into postpartum depression and then alleged psychosis before strangling her three children to death.

We can feel awful for her that her mental health was suffering so greatly. We can acknowledge that pharmaceutical interventions can sometimes wildly exacerbate the problems they are intended to help. And, at the same time, we can acknowledge that this was a horrific crime, and she should receive the full force of the law for her actions.

Instead, many women have decided that Clancy is the real victim.

Today, women rallied outside the courthouse dressed in pink in solidarity, cheering Clancy’s defense attorney. A GoFundMe has raised nearly a million dollars in support of Clancy, as women flood the page with encouragement for the face of their cause.

Other women have posted videos of themselves holding their children with the caption “Same, Lindsay,” either unaware of the horrific implications of identifying with a woman who killed her kids, or unbothered by them. They see Lindsay Clancy as their opportunity to talk about the struggles they’ve faced, leaving out the fact that they didn’t kill their kids.

The end result is that a woman who strangled her kids has become a hero and a vicarious avatar for an alarming number of women.

And none of them will entertain the idea that Clancy is responsible for these terrible actions.

Violating the 9th commandment, and contradicting Clancy’s own defense team, the women of TikTok have decided that Clancy’s husband may actually be the culprit. It’s the husband’s fault, they’ll tell you—whether they think he actually did it, or that he wasn’t supportive enough, or that he was guilty of driving her to it by some unreported abuse he must have committed.

If it’s not him, it’s the drug companies’ fault. It’s the therapist’s fault. It is everybody's fault but the woman who killed the kids.

The responsibility Clancy bears, one woman told me, is the unfortunate responsibility that she will have to live without her kids. Unsurprisingly, the same woman suspects the husband—you know, who also has to live his life without his kids because his wife murdered them—may have been the cause.

I am telling you, women are not okay.

Not all the women, of course—though the ones who aren’t included in that diagnosis are also the kind who can deduce that on their own.

But many women are suffering from a similar total lack of accountability across the board. All of this TikTok mommy-sleuthing and searching for evidence and “following the trial” with gossipy speculation and “just asking questions” is an elaborate attempt to avoid facing an uncomfortable but obvious conclusion: women sin, too.

Consider how often you see attempts to avoid this conclusion…

• If a woman gets an abortion, it’s the man’s fault for impregnating her, and the doctor’s fault for carrying out the procedure. Don’t you dare suggest we prosecute the mom who hired the hitman.

• If a woman is promiscuous, it’s because of the lust-filled men who took advantage of her.

• If a wife blows up the family because the internet convinced her that her husband was a toxic narcissistic abuser because he left his socks on the floor instead of in the laundry hamper, then the divorce is his fault. She’ll get the kids and probably the house. The social circle will side with her. (In most but not all cases, I know).

• Even in the church, many won’t preach Ephesians 5 without telling the wives they are to submit on the condition of a man’s perfect leadership, and if he fails in her eyes in any way, then it’s his fault that she didn’t submit. She gets to decide when she’s supposed to follow, if at all.

What kind of “equality” exempts one party from being responsible for their actions?

The kind of “equality” sought by Godless frameworks.

This case is oddly reminiscent of last year’s Karmelo Anthony case, when a young black man murdered a young white man and received an enormous outpouring of support. His GoFundMe, too, brought in a seven-figure windfall. It, too, was filled with messages of us against them rhetoric. Older folks might remember the O.J. Simpson trial going the same way.

What this shows is that we are dealing with mass demographic enmity. That’s what Marxist Critical Theory, with its oppressed/oppressor dynamics, has given us. “Oppressed” classes are pumped with delusions and fears about their supposed oppression. As a result, they are convinced that they can do no wrong as the alleged underdog in a class war.

So, women view themselves as the underdogs in the eternal struggle against men. Being a victim is the path to victory in this framework, so finding a way to become the victim is the gameplan.

Thus, when a woman kills her children, she couldn’t possibly be responsible. In fact, the first person we should question is her husband. It just had to be him, they instinctively deduce. And you know what that means… she is actually the victim here.

I’m sorry, but this is insanity.

We cannot go on living like this. God willing, we won’t.

This is why I have been beating the drum so loudly about restoring Biblical man/woman dynamics. Many will warn you about what will result if we get back to men leading and women submitting… and then those same people will give women a pass for tens of millions of abortions and strangling little ones in one’s own home.

Plenty of men and women are seeing just how many women are reflexively siding with a murderous mother over three innocent children and her devastated husband, and that toothpaste doesn’t go back in the tube. This is the kind of thing that will contribute to a huge swing back toward Biblical and historical gender roles.

100 years of so-called “equality” led us to this shocking dead end. Don’t be surprised when people start looking in other directions. Feminism must be rejected, and women must be taught to reject it for their own good, and for the good of all around them.

I realize this will fall on many deaf ears among those who are unashamed feminists. But there are also many who aren’t there, yet are still drawn to Lindsay Clancy’s defense.

Once again, we should be sympathetic to mental health struggles, and it’s long past time to question the kinds of drugs that are handed out like candy. However…

Just think about this for a second. Three kids are dead. A man lost his family at the hands of his own wife. Those are the victims, and they aren’t victims of a nameless, faceless entity. They were victimized by a woman—their mother and wife—and she bears responsibility. Let’s not lose the main thread here.

Time for a change

The only way out of this is God’s way, in which we abandon the feminist war between the sexes and acknowledge that men are responsible for being good men, and women are responsible for being good women.

Men should honor, love, and cherish their wives. Women should respect and submit to their husbands, and love their families (and work diligently as housekeepers to avoid gossip chains, which seems particularly relevant right about now - 1 Timothy 5:13-14). Whatever this current thing is, it isn’t that.

So long as we accept a system of competition between the two sexes, the scales will be tilted. Women will be unconcerned with what’s right, but who wins. And men will start to respond in kind. That only gets worse from here if we don’t turn it around. It’s time to restore the beauty of the sexes as God intended.

Notes

• For a longer discussion on this case, check out our Think Deeper Podcast livestream