You are missing the point. When a woman commits a murder there is a mad scramble to find out why she would have done something like that and all of the excuses start flying. She had PTSD, she was abused as a child, she had post-partum depression, she had battered woman's syndrome, her husband beat her, and on and on we go in the abuse excuse sweepstakes. It has gotten so bad now that women who have been convicted by a jury of their peers for murdering their husbands and in jail are being released by idiotically chivalrous politicians seeking votes and support from women. omg.
When a man commits a similar crime he is pronounced a "bad man" and the rush is not to find an excuse but to hold him completely accountable. The differences are stark and obvious to anyone not wearing the feminists glasses.
My wife now sees things. She told me yesterday about something she had seen on tv where the man was arrested for dv but the evidence was clearly that she had hit him in the face with her fist and he had responded. In the show no mention or attention was drawn to the fact that she had hit first. The only thing that was done was to handcuff the man and berate him publically for hitting a woman.
She said she would have missed that little bit of data if we had not had our "discussions" about men and dv. And so it goes.
With the Yates situation look at how she is forgiven and given every possible excuse while people judge the husband! It's hard to imagine a man murdering someone and the media saying that he didn't get the support from his wife and therefore it is HER fault.
The media as a whole haven't done this. A handful of outspoken feminists have, and I agree with you that it's sickening. It's irrational to blame Rusty Yates in any way, shape, or form for what happened.
But as for Andrea Yates, her postpartum psychosis was very real and caused her actions. That's just a fact. Unless you have a psychiatric background, there's no sense in trying to refute it.
I actually agree with Bill Maher: "What's wrong with 'guilty by reason of insanity'?" Nevertheless, she was indeed insane.
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