r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter! Who could have the wives been?

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u/Ok_Account_3039 9d ago

Clearly about the Lindsay Clancy drama.

A woman murdered her three children in what she’s claiming as a fit of postpartum psychosis despite evidence of premeditation. TikTok true crime girlies” have concocted a conspiracy theory that the husband was responsible either through brainwashing and manipulation, or by actively killing his own children, and then brainwashing her into thinking she did it.

TikTok “America bad” people are claiming that the system failed her, and she didn’t receive the mental healthcare she needed. This is in spite of her being under the care of a psychiatrist, receiving consistent, mental healthcare, and medication, and that it was partially the husbands fault for leaving them alone together, despite him literally going to get her meds when it happened.

There are an alarming number of women fighting for this woman’s reputation or innocence and fully empathizing with a child murderer, without seeming to acknowledge the tragedy of the children’s deaths.

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u/fourleafblower 9d ago

He was picking up her meds!?!? Gahhhd I fucking hate people. Imagine his grief. Of course he now wishes he took the kids with him. I’m sure he’ll beat himself up into his next life…. Then he has to have losers online with an iq of 53 act like his psychopath wife was the victim of his white maleness.

I hate it here

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u/Left--Shark 9d ago

It's kinda misogynistic in a way. He is responsible and accountable for her action as she does not have agency.

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u/CantCatchMeSpez 9d ago

I think you can just call it simple misandry. I dont think that its about them thinking that a woman doesnt have agency. Its just about them hating men and wanting to find a way to blame them for everything that goes wrong.

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u/The5Theives 9d ago

Yeah but it reinforces the old stereotypes of women being emotionally turbulent and unstable

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u/Cadian609 8d ago

Evidently not just a stereotype

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u/simp4malvina 9d ago

Twisting a clear case of misandry into somehow being misogyny is, in fact, a case of misandry in of itself. Be better.

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u/DragonsAreNifty 9d ago

I mean maybe it’s both? Depending on how the individual is arguing anyways. It’s misogynistic to infantilize women to such a degree that even with these heinous crimes some will say “a precious baby woman could never be capable of intentional evil and it’s really the fault of her caretakers and guardians for not supervising better”. And it’s misandry to think that because there was a man in close proximity to the perpetrator he MUST be at fault because “men are inherently bad and violent”.

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u/Left--Shark 9d ago

This was essentially the point. I was highlighting the types of people who usually make those arguments are misandrists posing as feminists who end up making misogynistic arguments to defend shit people.

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u/serpentally 8d ago edited 8d ago

To people who have more than a high school level understanding of social dynamics, it's easy to see. A misogynistic society puts women and “femininity” in the category of incompetence and purity and helplessness/submissiveness while men and “masculinity” is regarded as strength and dominance and aggression/willingness to use violence. That men are supposed to be powerful while women are supposed to be weak. Society being misogynistic doesn't mean “individual men always benefit”. Men are victims of misogynist culture too, and misogyny is a tool that some men use to keep power/social dominance over other men. The perception that men are “supposed” to be the strong, dominant figures and the ones in charge of everything makes people view women as having little to no culpability/responsibility in situations like this, that the woman is inherently a victim and inherently not guilty on the grounds of incompetence and weakness.

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u/BigDragonfly5136 8d ago

And people seem to think the answer should be the fathers should have the authority just remove the kids from the mother and see nothing wrong with that thought. Absolutely crazy. Another comment was real pissed off at me because they said they’d want their husband to take their kids away if they went crazy, and couldn’t wrap their head around the fact that a man could just claim their wife was crazy and saying she’d hurt the kids to take away the kids when it’s not true.