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If you’ve had the misfortune to be on the internet in the past month, you’ve probably seen the videos of young mothers sympathizing with Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts woman who is on trial for murder after strangling her three young children. The gist, usually, is that these women are so tormented by the challenges of raising their own children that they look at Clancy and think, Hey, that could be me!

Clancy’s defenders blame her actions, which she does not dispute, on everything from postpartum hormones to her husband to the normal hazards of being a mother of three. The theories vary in coherence, but in any case, the trial has become a proxy for women to air their various gripes about motherhood.

There’s a lot of equivocation going on, mostly by clout-chasing women who are either deluded or dishonest enough to equate real challenges like postpartum hormone shifts and sleep deprivation with deciding to wrap an exercise band around your toddler’s neck. But one bit of equivocation they’ve stopped doing is asking everyone to treat them just like men.

The argument that Clancy was victimized by the expectations and hardships of motherhood is a feminist one. Many of her supporters blame the very nature of her role as a wife and mother for her undoing, or at least tacitly do so by complaining loudly on the internet that their own duties to their children make them feel homicidal too.

Like a true feminist icon, Clancy is to them both a mistreated victim of her circumstances but also an empowering figurehead around whom to organize. They make no secret of their contempt for her husband, whose face has launched a thousand TikTok conspiracy theories, or for the basic social expectation that women who have children should actually mother them rather than stage performative tantrums on Instagram.

Feminists such as the 1970s writer Kate Millett have long portrayed the family as a tool of male oppression. At the root of all this resentment is usually the delusion that men and women are functionally interchangeable, and the belief that society’s obligations and expectations for........

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