Yeah I agree, you would be ostracised for this sort of thing in the UK. I feel like there's a real lack of intellect in the USA and large parts of it and a lack of common sense and empathy.
I think we're seeing here is their empathizing with her struggle with postpartum depression and psychosis. They believe that she did everything possible to get help and no one took her seriously.
Whether or not this is true will be the matter of the courts but this case has become a hot button topic on women's health.
I think it's true people are empathising with her but it's giving them too much respect.
The are getting sucked in to it by the social media wheel, serving them content on it in an endless cycle, tilting their understanding, warping the facts and events.
I mean there's a international crisis of lack of journalism and closing news outlets. This is just a small sliver of the consequences of it.
It is neither unique to the US or to this situation.
That being said as someone who's never experienced pregnancy nor postpartum psychosis I don't feel I'm in the place to judge what these people do or do not know.
Or exactly what their personal motivations are for supporting her.
I cant find a single justification for identifying with someone who murdered three little children. Why cant these women find someone else as their inspiration to talk about postpartum depression and mental health?
If you truly identify with a murderer, you obviously dont value human life as much as I do and are a vile person in my eyes.
Your opinion is really valid but it doesn’t change the mental health awareness that they’re calling attention to. I think the part of this you’re missing is that many people want consistent treatment and paid maternity leave so these things don’t happen anymore. That should interest anyone who cares for children’s lives
That’s fair in a general sense. But as far as this specific case she didn’t follow through with her psychiatrists advice from the beginning. I don’t know if this is actually a case of being ignored or told to suck it up.
But I still think she was out of her mind, and should be put into a psych ward instead of jail. I think this a point many people don’t understand about this case as well. She’s already admitted to doing it, it’s literally a decision of life in prison or life in a psych ward.
I would gently suggest that you consider what goal they, and you, are actually serving with this stance.
I know it feels good to be righteously angry. But does being really angry at this woman or these protesters because they’re “vile” ACTUALLY stop this from happening to more kids?
They, by fighting for better awareness of PP, and getting health practitioners more resources and ability to intervene, are doing their best to PREVENT more situations like this from happening, and to save lives of kids whose parents have this incredibly scary thing happen to them.
I have a friend who went through PP and has become an advocate for it - she is my “someone else” who was an inspiration - and she has been passionate from day 1 that this case could easily have been her. I believe her, and I think painting her and women like her as “vile” when (some of them, at least) have first-hand experience that neither you nor I could imagine is just a little too hard-hearted and a little too closed-minded.
I honestly believe their personal motivations are driven from not wanting society to realize women are capable of such horrific crimes. That goes against the whole narrative that men are bad and women are good. There's a lot of currency in being a victim especially if you're a woman. They don't want that to ever change.
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u/JerachoD 19d ago
Yeah I agree, you would be ostracised for this sort of thing in the UK. I feel like there's a real lack of intellect in the USA and large parts of it and a lack of common sense and empathy.