Dr. Inferno of The Endless...

Lindsay’s case has absolutely nothing to do with women’s collective ability to rule or work. The people at the centre of this are the children. The only discussion we should be having about this mistrial is whether a legal outcome like this could undermine accountability in cases where a mother kills her children and later raises severe mental illness as a defence. Children deserve protection, and killing them should never be trivialised or watered down. That should be the centre of this conversation. But somehow, you people have taken one woman’s case and turned it into a referendum on whether women, as a collective, are capable of ruling or working. How? A woman committing a horrific crime does not make women collectively unfit to lead, any more than the countless violent crimes committed by men make men collectively unfit to rule. If your concern is child safety, then talk about child safety. If your concern is the legal standard for mental illness and criminal responsibility, then talk about that. But dragging women’s capacity to lead into this is misogyny.