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(LifeSiteNews) — The Lindsay Clancy breakups have begun.
For those of you not on the internet (be assured that you are both happier and saner as a result), 32-year-old Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children on January 24, 2023, and is currently on trial for first-degree murder. Instead of horror, thousands of women have taken to social media and the streets to express their support for her.
Nobody denies that she is a child killer. But legions of female supporters have decided to make her the poster child for post-partum struggles. As I noted earlier in this space, scores of TikTok videos of women sobbing and holding their babies with the phrase, “Same, Lindsay” have gone viral; the disturbing implication that many mothers are on the verge of perpetrating similar horrors provoked equally viral responses.
For some men, it turns out, seeing women that they thought they knew empathizing with a mother who killed her own small children — and even using the slogan “Same, Lindsay” — is a bridge too far. As one viral X post (language alert) put it:
Men are now breaking up with girlfriends who support Lindsay Clancy, and honestly, good for them.
A Lindsay Clancy defender is not who you want as the mother of your own future children. pic.twitter.com/W7ootUofih
— Evita Duffy-Alfonso (@evitaduffy_1) August 21, 2026
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That was just the beginning. According to another X post, one man called off his wedding just two weeks before he headed to the altar because he saw his fiancée supporting Lindsay Clancy online:
My brother whom gets married in 2 weeks sent the entire family + hers a group chat saying he is calling off the wedding because his fiancé said she supported Lindsay Clancy on Friday pic.twitter.com/rOYluhxp2O
— 🖤 Buy Physical Media 🖤 (@VHSDVDBLURAY4K) August 23, 2026
There are others. “Broke up with my girlfriend over the Lindsay Clancy situation, as someone who wants to have kids in the future & was with someone who could be potentially that, I couldn’t just let her opinion/support on this situation go,” one poster stated.
broke up with my girlfriend over the lindsay clancy situation, as someone who wants to have kids in the future & was with someone who could be potentially that, i couldn’t just let her opinion/support on this situation go.
— vaultofdee (@vaultofdee) August 22, 2026
One post circulating indicates that a “divorce attorney confirms he has multiple male clients requesting to use their wives’ support of Lindsay Clancy in custody battles.” (This post has surfaced several times, but all appear to be based on the same original post.) This has been difficult to confirm independently of social media anecdotes, but the wave of affirmation in response to these posts highlights the rage these videos have triggered.
There is something chilling about the steady stream of videos featuring mothers, cradling little children, declaring their sympathy for a mother who killed her own – and worse, using their babies as props in videos that express understanding for why she killed her babies while claiming to be experiencing what she experienced.
Many other videos – I will not include them here – show children crying or screaming while their mothers hold cameras over them. These videos are calibrated to incur sympathy but do precisely the opposite.
Michael Knowles put it succinctly. “The Clancy thing is a perfect test,” he wrote. “If your girlfriend supports her, there should be a you-shaped hole in the wall no more than five seconds later.”
