Panettiere vs. Clancy and the Demons of Others
Published on HivePostify by @jlat1412 · Thu Sep 03 2026
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This week's contest on Queercoin seems interesting to me because social anthropology has discussed the topic of violence against women extensively. However, I think the current approach is incomplete; it focuses heavily on violence perpetrated by men against women, but overlooks the opposite case, when women perpetrate violence against men or children.
The much-debated case of Lindsay Clancy, currently circulating on social media and which I find more relevant, has brought to the forefront another aspect of gender violence that feminists rarely have the courage to criticize. Mental illness does not completely deprive people of the ability to discern right from wrong or to make decisions. The only things that completely prevent a person from making decisions about their own life or the lives of their loved ones are age (babies cannot make decisions), neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, etc.), coma, and death.
Now, returning to Clancy's case, she did receive treatment for her illness (it wasn't a case of neglect), but she deliberately refused to continue long-term treatment, knowing the potential consequences due to her training as a nurse. So, to say that the deaths of her three children in 2023 were solely due to a mental health issue was an act of irresponsibility with fatal consequences, which should be punished with the same severity as a man who committed the same type of crime.
Currently, there is a movement of women defending her on social media, claiming that postpartum depression and psychosis caused the entire crime, therefore she is not responsible and should be released. Ladies and gentlemen, that is not correct. Neither postpartum depression nor psychosis makes everyone who suffers from them a murderer.
In fact, the recently deceased actress and singer Hayden Panettiere, who struggled with depression and addiction, relinquished custody of her daughter to her ex-husband so that her inner demons wouldn't harm her child. Imagine this: beyond the sadness, the pain, the grief, Panettiere had enough love for her daughter to separate from her and give custody to someone more responsible. Lindsay Clancy could have made that same decision. If she couldn't or wouldn't deal with her inner demons, she could have divorced and given custody to her husband, instead of harming three innocent children.
And that's important: neither sadness nor madness prevents you from making the right decisions for the sake of your children and loved ones. Mental illness is not a free pass for your inner demons to harm others. And we mustn't forget that.
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