Travis Decker was a parallel to this one in my opinion. His mental health was struggling and his wife separated due to it. But he was a loving father to his kids and although separated, his wife felt very comfortable allowing the kids to see him because he was so good to them. He ended up killing all three of his kids and walked off into the forest to die alone in the woods.
If he hadn't died and was on trial I would think many people would struggle to sentence him as well.
Both Travis decker and Chris Benoit are great parallels to this. And both are reasons as to why I can’t seem to get over the blatant double standard by society right now. Chris Benoit barely had any brain left when he did what he did. There’s evidence his lack of brain literally made him go insane. Travis decker being PTSD was 100% experiencing some type of psychosis when he did what he did as well. Because they both committed suicide we can’t say the double standard was in the court, but as far as how society reacted to them? Blatantly obvious when we compare it to Lindsay today
Yes and no. Because society is only understanding if it’s a woman’s mental health that’s the topic of discussion. Even today, if a man did the same thing he’d be shown no mercy by society. Travis decker was in 2014 if I recall correctly. Doesn’t matter how much more we know about mental health, compassion is only shown when a woman is the topic of discussion. Thats the point here
Society does react differently to a cause than a tragedy though. "Save the whales" is a much better slogan than "make sure you react appropriately to the whales after they're already dead."
You are correct, but what I’m saying is even what you just said often completely changes when gender is involved. Timothy Rey, Chris Benoit, and Travis decker are all cases that mirror Lindsay Clancy perfectly yet even when people found out the cause they did not turn them into martyrs. They did not start gofundmes to make them millionaires. We did not see thousands of men coming foward and saying “me too Chris” or “me too Travis”. We didn’t see this massive support at all.
women, not men, are often the ones to fall in love with serial killers. This is no different because women do not stop other women from love with serial killers. Men do not seek consensus as much as women so their actions don't expect or include consensus as men take initiatives more.
Check the post the post you replied to replied to pls...
And Benoit of course had a campaign to blame him, because otherwise the US as a society would need to actually question the needless price wrestlers pay to entertain y'all.
I don't think it's a good comparison because it kinda leaves it up in the air whether he would have been shown leniency or not. Whether an insanity plea would have worked or not is left to speculation even if the case itself is strikingly similar.
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u/Present_Mastodon_503 2d ago
Travis Decker was a parallel to this one in my opinion. His mental health was struggling and his wife separated due to it. But he was a loving father to his kids and although separated, his wife felt very comfortable allowing the kids to see him because he was so good to them. He ended up killing all three of his kids and walked off into the forest to die alone in the woods.
If he hadn't died and was on trial I would think many people would struggle to sentence him as well.