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Can someone give me a steelman of the popular pro-Lindsay Clancey argument? I’m not really talking about the defense, whose argument is a complex justification for why she medically and legally qualifies for the insanity defense. I’m more asking about the people online arguing that she is a victim and her being prosecuted/this situation is an example of sexism. My wife told me about the case and is very anti Clancey. ChatGPT also gave what I felt is an unsatisfactory steelman. I don’t have a theory of mind for her supporters, and wish to rectify that.
The steelman is the claim that she was being abused and her husband made her psychotic. As far as I know, there is no evidence for this; it's pure pop-feminist misandry.
Not quite, see my post, but the specific mechanisms raised by the defense and community for psychosis have been very variable and include things like abuse, medication side effects, baseline mental illness, and post-partum illness (which is a rare but real thing).
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