# @un_filtered_wisdom on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-08-23T11:33:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rhaab Grien (@un_filtered_wisdom) — https://gondola.cc/un_filtered_wisdom

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Feminism is supposedly built on equality.

So let’s talk about what equality actually means: equal standards of accountability.

Look at the Lindsay Clancy case.

She is accused of killing her three children. Both sides in the trial agree that she killed them. The dispute is whether her mental state made her legally responsible for what she did.

And yet hundreds of women have rallied outside the courthouse in support of her, with messages like “She Needed Help” and “Peace For Lindsay.”

Now imagine the roles were reversed.

Imagine a man sexually assaulted a woman, unalived her, and then his defense was:

“My testosterone and mental health made me do it.”

Would people respond with the same level of sympathy?

Would thousands of people rally outside the courthouse talking about how men need better mental-health support?

Of course not.

And that's where I think we need to have an honest conversation.

Mental illness can explain behavior.

Trauma can explain behavior.

Hormones can influence behavior.

None of those things automatically erase the consequences of behavior.

If we believe equality means anything, then we cannot have one standard for women and another for men.

You cannot spend decades arguing that women are just as capable, rational, independent and responsible as men, and then selectively invoke biology, hormones or mental health whenever a woman does something horrific.

And this isn't an argument against compassion.

I'm all for compassion.

I'm also all for better mental-health care, including better treatment for postpartum psychosis.

But compassion and accountability are not mutually exclusive.

If a man commits an unforgivable act, we don't say, “He's struggling, so let's understand him.”

We say, “He needs to be held accountable.”

Then we should be willing to apply that same standard to women.

That's equality.

Anything else is simply another form of double standard.

#Feminism #Equality #Accountability #MensIssues #WomensIssues DoubleStandards MentalHealth LindsayClancy Relationships HumanBehavior SocialCommentary

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