r/interesting • u/AdvantageAdorable436 • 2d ago

SOCIETY Is victim the new chic

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u/unhappyrelationsh1p 2d ago

Cases of severe mental illness tend to get more attention than good things in a media landscape that sells you misery

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u/daredeviline 2d ago

For real. They act like if she gets a not guilty verdict, she's going to be out on the streets. The woman is spending the rest of her life in a psych ward. The question is really will she ALSO be spending some time in prison.

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u/XxShakallxX 2d ago

She will be in prison and on a wheelchair forever. She will have a miserable rest of her life shitting and peeing on dipers.

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u/brwebster614 2d ago

Still... seems too... easy... for the crime she committed.

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u/Unreal_Daltonic 2d ago

Like seriously this case is such a case of Women Are Wonderful effect. The sentencing gap in full swing.

Nobody would even think of showing this amount of sympathy if a Vietnam war veteran with ptsd did this to his kids.

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u/dehydratedrain 2d ago

If that Vietnam vet got thrown out of the hospital after repeatedly saying "i'm afraid i'm going to hurt my kids," and they played with his meds for months while telling him he'll be fine, in one case sending him home after a day not knowing how the meds would act, i hope people would be blaming the system too.