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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 14, 2026

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The pro-choice, pro adult-human-female, feminist, female-supremecist etc side thinks that women are valuable. Every child has a mother, most mothers love their children and experience deep suffering and loss, therefore killing a child usually causes lots of harm to a woman

They both care, because they both perceive harm being done to someone they care about. But one faction's care is conditional on that child having a mother who loves them and is harmed,

I really don't think this is a correct model of what they are thinking. In fact liberals/feminists usually attempt to reduce the amount of authority parents have over their children and a common liberal critique of conservatives is that conservatives only care about children as an extension of their parents and not as autonomous human beings. Pro choice people and liberals also believe they value life for it's own sake and that conservatives don't. They really believe that a fetus is not a baby and so don't see it as de-valuing life.

I also think you underestimate how many conservative or right coded women are pro* Lindsay Clancy.

*it's important to remember that the pro side still want her committed to a mental hospital.

To be clear, this particular split I'm talking about is skew to the typical left-right divide, though I do think it correlates with it. I think there are more of the female-supremecists on the left than there are on the right, but there are some on both, and this illusionary alliance of pro-children allows both factions to exist together on the left or on the right without even realizing they disagree on fundamental issues.

That is, there are "pro-children" people who are for abortion who think fetuses aren't children and therefore don't count, while the pro-female people are for abortion because they think women should be allowed to kill children, and both of them are pro abortion and make fun of the right together.

I admit I don't have a very good understanding of conservative women who are pro* Lindsay Clancy. My best guess is that they combine a strong notion of property rights and familial autonomy combined with a view that children are property, or something like that. But even then, you'd think the father would get a say...

it's important to remember that the pro side still want her committed to a mental hospital.

Some of them do, some of them don't. There are an awful lot of tiktokers who insist that the husband killed the kids and should go to jail while Lindsay Clancy should be completely free. I suppose on some sense this is a different faction than the ones who think it's literally okay to kill kids, but it's all tangled together among people who want her to be free first and foremost because she's a woman and are just looking for excuses.

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