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kyburgIf anyone makes use of this program successfully, let me know. It would go a long way towards my feelings on Super 8 motels.
There's been another postpartum depression-related infanticide in Plano, Texas in the news this morning. The big discussion? How do you convince a jury of the existence of mental illness -
Me, I'd just like to put the father and all the medical/social service professionals up there on the dock with the mother. How did it go? Diagnosed in January, discharged and "case closed" in August - and the murder just occurred. Uh huh.
It doesn't make me feel any better than these cases are occurring in Texas at an elevated rate. Here's the link - from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
joiseyguy.
It would probably catch some people off guard, but this is a situation that needs a good dose of good old fashioned feminism.
But that would be wrong - I can hear the squealing already - that would mean - *gasp* - that you think that woman shouldn't be held accountable! Feminism means the woman is always right! Feminatzis and all that - you know that shit stinks!
Ahem.
A good dose of feminism would hold all the players in this drama equally accountable. The system is responsible for protecting the public from dangerous persons, right? This is an illness only women get. Its victims, after the woman, are small children and infants. You could make the correlation to loaded guns. They don't always go off, you know. Would you leave a loaded gun in a house with small children, unsupervised?
But why feminism?
Because its bias is towards holding everyone to the same level as the women involved. NOW actually supported the husband of Andrea Yates while they were defending her in court - as long as he supported her, they supported him. (I'd bet they're pretty cheesed now that he wants a divorce. STOOPID.)
The social services people, the medical professionals and the father of the dead child are all as responsible as the mad woman who probably still doesn't realize what she did yet.
Remember - I don't want blame. I want this shit to stop. Go ahead and incarcerate the woman. Do nothing to fix the system that allowed her to continue to be too sick to leave along with small children, and then left her alone with those children (and nobody is held accountable for that crime yet, that I know of) - and it happens again.
Guess you just need someone to hate. Meanwhile, lives are lost and/or destroyed forever.
There's been another postpartum depression-related infanticide in Plano, Texas in the news this morning. The big discussion? How do you convince a jury of the existence of mental illness -
Me, I'd just like to put the father and all the medical/social service professionals up there on the dock with the mother. How did it go? Diagnosed in January, discharged and "case closed" in August - and the murder just occurred. Uh huh.
It doesn't make me feel any better than these cases are occurring in Texas at an elevated rate. Here's the link - from
joiseyguy.It would probably catch some people off guard, but this is a situation that needs a good dose of good old fashioned feminism.
But that would be wrong - I can hear the squealing already - that would mean - *gasp* - that you think that woman shouldn't be held accountable! Feminism means the woman is always right! Feminatzis and all that - you know that shit stinks!
Ahem.
A good dose of feminism would hold all the players in this drama equally accountable. The system is responsible for protecting the public from dangerous persons, right? This is an illness only women get. Its victims, after the woman, are small children and infants. You could make the correlation to loaded guns. They don't always go off, you know. Would you leave a loaded gun in a house with small children, unsupervised?
But why feminism?
Because its bias is towards holding everyone to the same level as the women involved. NOW actually supported the husband of Andrea Yates while they were defending her in court - as long as he supported her, they supported him. (I'd bet they're pretty cheesed now that he wants a divorce. STOOPID.)
The social services people, the medical professionals and the father of the dead child are all as responsible as the mad woman who probably still doesn't realize what she did yet.
Remember - I don't want blame. I want this shit to stop. Go ahead and incarcerate the woman. Do nothing to fix the system that allowed her to continue to be too sick to leave along with small children, and then left her alone with those children (and nobody is held accountable for that crime yet, that I know of) - and it happens again.
Guess you just need someone to hate. Meanwhile, lives are lost and/or destroyed forever.
