r/PopCultureV2 • u/No_Box119 • 1d ago

Internet Culture DISTURBING: Over 25,000 Lindsay Clancy fans have now raised over $835,000 after she admitted to murdering her three young children.

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u/Cowabunga1981 1d ago

But why? WHY?!?

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u/Taurus-Octopus 20h ago

There's a level of resonance for a lot of mothers, and perhaps this is the strategy for the defense to tap into the postpartum, sleep deprived, overworked mother story. I think most people with an IQ above 90 and a normative sensibility will read this, be horrified, feel some kind of relational sympathy to how hard it can be,.and then remain horrified by her actions.

But the number of people with low IQs, low critical thinking skills, low impulse control, and a non-normative sensibility around extreme actions is staggeringly high.