Lindsay Clancy’s Revolt

A psychopath she may be, but she is also a leader a rebellion — exactly as her hordes of followers are telling us.

Stephen Baskerville | October 4, 2026

Therapeutic explanations have dominated both sides of the Lindsay Clancy debate. But the most instructive and constructive explanation is ignored: the ideological.[1]  Whatever mental illness or medications permitted Clancy to murder, the mass following she has generated among women is driven by a political ideology: feminism.  And it is not credible to believe that her deed is disconnected from the empathy and celebration of it by hordes of outspoken women.  What she did has touched a nerve and inspired many others who are, in their way, rebelling in solidarity with her.

That is what ideologies do, after all.  They express the desire to rebel, unite the rebels, articulate their grievances, identify their “oppressors,” and drive them to act. 

It does not matter if they are not all doctrinaire feminists, mouthing the approved party line.  Ideologies never result in the utopia promised by the ideologues.  Nor do they remain long in pure form.  Once the ideas trickle down to the masses, often vulgarized, they can go every which way, as the less educated pick and choose the bits they want to hear.  This is why they invariably bring untended consequences.  Still, the responsibility for unleashing the chaos lies with feminism.

Janice Fiamengo has stated this case with unexceptionable logic: “Decades of feminist grievance-mongering have produced this bitter fruit.”

If you tell a group of people that they are uniquely victimized, that they’re innocent victims, that they shouldn’t have to take responsibility for any of the things wrong in their lives, that they are right to feel aggrieved, you will create in them a victim mentality[.] ... [P]eople who believe that their victimhood is the central fact of their identity ... dwell on it.  They see everything through the victimhood lens. ... [And] those that they identify as part of the oppressor group ... they feel justified in taking revenge on those people.[2]Advertisement if (window.publir_show_ads) { document.write(''); }

If you tell a group of people that they are uniquely victimized, that they’re innocent victims, that they shouldn’t have to take responsibility for any of the things wrong in their lives, that they are right to feel aggrieved, you will create in them a victim mentality[.] ... [P]eople who believe that their victimhood is the central fact of their identity ... dwell on it.  They see everything through the victimhood lens. ... [And] those that they identify as part of the oppressor group ... they feel justified in taking revenge on those people.[2]

But feminism’s destruction extends beyond encouraging the victim mentality familiar from other identity politics.  In fact, it may reach deeper than any other radical ideology in modern history.  These women are in rebellion against the few lingering vestiges of sexual and reproductive law and order that still manage to limit the most precious thing feminism gave them: their exclusive and unchallenged control over sex and children — the two things that always confer power on women.  They are in revolt against marriage, families, children (especially legitimate children), motherhood (at least married motherhood), and fatherhood........

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