Some do, some don't [respect women].
Of those who don't, some ...
1) excessively disparage women because they themselves are weak in resisting tempations against purity, and in a sense feel dominated by women, and thus over-react
2) have had a lot of experiences with women who are emotional trainwrecks, manipulative, self-absorbed, and so on and so forth -- and are tied of people putting women on pedestals and worshipping them, as if their excrement don't stink, the same white knightish attitude you exhitib by your nonsensical "She just had a damn baby."
You conflate someone who says that there's no armount of "depression" that could justify the evil of murdering your children with misogyny ... whether or not guilt may be extenuated to an extent God only knows. Being depressed does not render you bereft of the intellect to know right from wrong and to know that you're doing wrong.
I've had times in my life that I was EXTREMELY depressed (not just sad, but with crippling depression) ... and at no point did I not at least know that if I decided to go out an kill someone that I would not be committing a grave evil (or, for a Catholic, a mortal sin). Women constantly use the "hormones" excuse to claim that they are not responsible for, say, nagging the crap out of their husbands and/or children and treating them like dirt. Excuse rejected. You still have an intellect and will.
Or are those who try to let women "off the hook" because of "muh hormones" ... are you tacitly admitting that women are bereft of intellectual capacity, where they have such little command of their intellects, and their emotions completely tell them what to do, that ... basically they are not even human, but mere animals reacting instinctively to emotion and hormone.
On the contrary, I have more respect for women that you do by implying this crap about "She just had a baby." as if that rendered her bereft of intellect. I respect women as having rational souls, endowed with intellect and free will, and who are not animals simply being told what to do by their emotions.
So, the correct balance is ...
1) respect women by giving them credit for being rational beings endowed with an intellect and free will and who are not mere animals who are governed by their emotions so much so that they lose their free will and can't even control themselves. Despite pretending to be a white knight, your attempt to excuse these child killers on account of having had a baby ... you're actually the one who's disrespecting women, giving them not enough credit to consider them rational beings. You act as if they're just like some pitbull that due to some instinct just started killing people. You need to give women more credit than that.
2) respect them enough not to counteract that nonsense by erring in the other direction, i.e. calling them "whores" and whatnot simply for having fallen into sin (though the term might apply to those women who are supporting this woman's actions and also those who were, say, clapping when the one governor signed the abortion to full term bill ... as that's a more powerful willful evil)
Yes, the degree of guilt may be extenuated by various circuмstances, emotions, hormones, etc. ... but in no case can the action be justified or excused of being a grave and heinous act that deserves capital punishment (while we prescind from juding the external forum).
I agree with everything you said here. It’s insulting to women to say we’re at the mercy of hormones and not responsible for our actions. I think a lot of what’s termed Post Natal Depression is really the result of women not having the social support structure when they’ve given birth that women 100 years ago would’ve had. If Lindsay Clancy is so deranged she thought her children were demons or something similar she should be locked up for life in a mental institution and if she has knowledge of the implications of her actions and knew she was murdering her children she should be either locked up for life or given the death penalty (after being given the chance to be catechised and have meetings with a priest). Of course God will forgive her if she truly repents as our Faith tells us but she can’t be allowed out in society again. A man in her situation should receive the same treatment.
Topic: Post Partum depression (Read 664 times)