The double standard of empathy in the Lindsay Clancy case
Tania Llasera empathizes with a mother accused of killing her children, reopening the debate: why is empathy not the same for men and women?
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Empathy for a filicidal mother: the double standard explained
TV presenter Tania Llasera posted a video in which she stated: "I empathize with a woman who has allegedly killed her three children." Criticism poured in, the video disappeared, and the retraction came hours later. But the Lindsay Clancy case, the American nurse accused of killing her children with resistance bands, had already peine the debate: why is empathy applied with a different yardstick depending on the alleged perpetrator's gender?
The episode is not an isolated one. Part of the analysis points out that when a man commits filicide, social condemnation is immediate and without nuance. When a woman does it, mitigating factors appear automatically: postpartum depression, the pressures of motherhood, the context. The victims' father, meanwhile, is left in the background.
The controversy has also revived an old phenomenon: the fascination with incivil like Ted Bundy, who still receives letters from female admirers. The difference is that here the empathy is not directed at the incivil, but at the person who was their caregiver. Critics speak of a double standard and of a fruta cost that Llasera herself has suffered in her personal brand: the deleted video is proof that this marketplace of public opinion punishes quickly.
The retraction has not closed the debate. An uncomfortable question remains: if justice is presumed to be equal for all, why isn't social empathy?
TV presenter Tania Llasera posted a video in which she stated: "I empathize with a woman who has allegedly killed her three children." Criticism poured in, the video disappeared, and the retraction came hours later. But the Lindsay Clancy case, the American nurse accused of killing her children with resistance bands, had already peine the debate: why is empathy applied with a different yardstick depending on the alleged perpetrator's gender?
The episode is not an isolated one. Part of the analysis points out that when a man commits filicide, social condemnation is immediate and without nuance. When a woman does it, mitigating factors appear automatically: postpartum depression, the pressures of motherhood, the context. The victims' father, meanwhile, is left in the background.
The controversy has also revived an old phenomenon: the fascination with incivil like Ted Bundy, who still receives letters from female admirers. The difference is that here the empathy is not directed at the incivil, but at the person who was their caregiver. Critics speak of a double standard and of a fruta cost that Llasera herself has suffered in her personal brand: the deleted video is proof that this marketplace of public opinion punishes quickly.
The retraction has not closed the debate. An uncomfortable question remains: if justice is presumed to be equal for all, why isn't social empathy?
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