Gaul Atreides (@gaulatreides)

The thing with all these pink-shirted libwahms taking up the banner of postpartum depression to excuse a stone cold filicidist is that there is no reasonable evidence nor hereditary logic to believe that PPD among women who have just given birth is common and that the typical instantiation of it is capable of pushing a woman into a murderous rage against her own children. If such a thing existed, evolution long ago would have culled those women from the gene pool, because nothing is more maladaptive to reproductive fitness than killing your offspring. In Clancy's case, what is more likely is that she had a preexisting psychosis, perhaps undiagnosed, which was pushed over the edge into a psychotic episode by post-birth depression. She still should get the death penalty, for the same reason I support the death penalty for murdernigs who are missing an MAOA allele.