We have long been told that if women ruled the world, we’d have peace and prosperity. Everyone would be dancing with unicorns under rainbows that gently sprinkle candy down on verdant fields full of fragrant flowers.
But I know women, being one myself, and having spent significant time not only at an all-women college but in a female-dominated profession before my work with Twitchy and Townhall, I can tell you nothing is further from the truth. And the recent adulation of Lindsay Clancy further proves my point.
Clancy is the Massachusetts mom and former labor and delivery nurse currently on trial for murdering her three children on January 24, 2023. Her children — Cora, Dawson, and Callan — were strangled in the family’s Duxbury home. Clancy then tried to commit suicide by cutting her neck and jumping from a second-story window.
The fall left her paralyzed and she uses a wheelchair.
She pleaded not guilty, and her attorneys are arguing she lacked criminal responsibility due to postpartum psychosis and other mental illnesses, as well as the effects of multiple prescribed medications.
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The defense does not, however, dispute this fact: Clancy strangled her children.
I won’t get into the details of the case itself. I have not heard all the evidence, and the jury will decide her fate.
But what I will do is ask: what the hell is wrong with women? Thousands of them have come out of the woodwork to not only support Clancy and falsely claim her now ex-husband, Patrick, is responsible for killing the children and trying to kill Clancy.
Remember: the defense has not disputed the fact that Lindsay Clancy killed her children. They are not arguing that Patrick Clancy is trying to frame his wife.
A bunch of women on the Internet are.
And these women are also saying they see themselves in Lindsay?
Licensed therapist defends Lindsay Clancy, who murdered her three children, because “many of us see ourselves in Lindsay.”
“Many of us know that we could have been only one step away from [murdering our children]”
This woman, and anyone else who thinks like this, belongs in a… pic.twitter.com/ZeFDCFgGcG
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 16, 2026
Excuse me, but what?
Not a single woman I know has been “one step away” from murdering her children. Yes, we’ve been frustrated and tired and annoyed with our children. But those are normal, human emotions.
Murdering our children, however, is not.
I have been a mother for two decades. Never once have I imagined harming my children. When my youngest was born in 2013, his brothers were six and four. I not only had a C-section, but also learned a week after giving birth that I was allergic to oxycodone, one of the ingredients in the pain medication known as Percocet. That means I was restricted to using Tylenol and Advil to manage my significant pain, sleep-deprived, and dealing with a crumbling marriage. Despite all that, harming any of my children never crossed my mind.
But I expected no better from the same women who cheered when Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey recently signed legislation allowing for abortion for any reason through all nine months of pregnancy. Our culture has told women that our children are disposable, commodities and fashion accessories that can be created — or destroyed — at will. And if we women are unhappy that nature handed us a son when we really wanted a daughter, we get heaps of praise for saying our kid is “trans” and mutilating his body.
So it’s not surprising to me that the Venn diagram of women who support those atrocities and also admire Lindsay Clancy is a circle. They are a product of the anti-natalist, anti-motherhood lies they’ve been fed for decades.
Because I am not in Lindsay Clancy’s head, I don’t know what she was thinking. It’s possible she was in the throes of postpartum psychosis. Postpartum depression and psychosis do happen, despite what some troglodytic conservative commentators may think, and our healthcare system is often woefully unfit to manage this. It’s also possible she wasn’t aware and knew what she was doing. The courts will determine that.
Every single woman who has given money to her GoFundMe, who has accused Patrick of being the murderer, and who posts social media crash-out videos — sometimes with their infant children in their arms — saying they “understand” Clancy deserves nothing but our scorn and derision.
All this being said, three children are dead, and at the hands of their mother.
At the end of the day, those children deserve justice. And that trumps the feelings of every woman who “sees herself” in Clancy.
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