Telling women to be silent in case the right weaponizes what a minority of people are doing is in effect punishing all women for the actions of a few. You are working for conservatives by doing their work for them in advance. You are casting all women as irrational on the basis that the right will cast all women as irrational.

And if we aren’t clear on what the right will do - if we ignore it wholesale - their tactics will be all the more effective.

I’m NOT saying, “shut up”, I’m saying, “be aware of how what you are saying can and will be used against you and the rights you have fought so hard to achieve”.

And from my discussions with other women (quite a few hundred over the last several months), female supporters of Lindsay Clancy are very much in the majority, even up here in Canada. It isn’t some fringe group, it is an above-50% proportion of adult women who think that she is either totally innocent, or at the very least not criminally liable for a well-planned, well-orchestrated, and clearly forethought series of murders. And that is disturbing AF, especially considering the wildly imbalanced gender sentencing gap.

To be absolutely clear: a fair majority of women are openly rejecting true equality in sentencing for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with equality and everything to do with establishing and maintaining special gender-unique privileges.