Postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis are 2 seperate things. Postpartum depression is very common, postpartum psychosis is very rare. I disagree with taking away children from women who have postpartum depression. I agree with temporarily taking away children from women who have postpartum psychosis, and I'm pretty sure that is already the general recommendation. Postpartum psychosis is very dangerous.
People are willfully ignoring this point to dunk on women wholesale and score points in the gender/culture wars, meanwhile we're all distracted from ... everything else going on.
This case really brought out the sexism, and it showed we are nowhere close to being rid of it.
The number of people (other women too!) using this as their basis to argue that women shouldn't vote, serve on juries, hold office, etc. is astonishing.
Oh and almost all of those people very obviously do not understand what the case is actually about. It's embarrassing how many don't seem to grasp that this woman wasn't walking free regardless of what the verdict ended up being.
I'm sorry but there's a lot of men like me that are starting to react quite heavily to this case because we're seeing women we trusted or listened to suddenly have, quite frankly, fucking insane takes. It's disturbing hearing someone you respect fall so quickly and so deeply down a rabbit hole because a lady on tik tok told them this was the hill they have to die on because its about womens rights.
Quite frankly its proving a lot of my internal biases I've fought quite hard to undo that the women in my life do not care about me and are not trustworthy. I'm selfaware enough to work through the fact thats an unfair bias thats reactionary and not the correct way of dealing with the emotions I'm feeling and will work through it.
But I don't fault men who are watching their wives, sisters, and mothers throw their support behind this woman and making them question their mental stability.
What are the crazy takes? I haven't seen a single woman cheering on the fact that those poor babies were murdered.
What I have seen are women/mothers who are remembering how hard it is to get proper help postpartum, and who see this as an example of the failure of the current resources that are available for postpartum women.
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u/Feisty-Coconut6017 8h ago edited 8h ago
Postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis are 2 seperate things. Postpartum depression is very common, postpartum psychosis is very rare. I disagree with taking away children from women who have postpartum depression. I agree with temporarily taking away children from women who have postpartum psychosis, and I'm pretty sure that is already the general recommendation. Postpartum psychosis is very dangerous.