She killed her three children. In the Lindsay Clancy trial, a chorus of women still called her the victim.
Then Joshua Charles posted a simple standard — ask her to dress with modesty ; if she says no, move on — and the same instinct showed up in the replies. Tonight we put both stories on the stand: not as Court TV, but as a Catholic reading of a culture that keeps flipping the verdict.
The Lindsay Clancy case is the first witness. A mother who killed her children. A defense built around postpartum psychosis. A public gallery that rushed to protect the accused and recast the crime as an injury done to her. We walk the Lindsay Clancy trial the way the culture actually tried it — in the comments, not just the courtroom.
The second witness is a tweet. Joshua Charles did not invent a new doctrine. He named an old one. The explosion around it wasn’t about fabric. It was about whether a man is still allowed to have a standard — and why so many women treated that as the real offense.
Two cases. One pattern. The accused becomes the victim. The standard becomes the crime.
Tonight with Avoiding Babylon:
- The Lindsay Clancy case — what the court is hearing, and what the culture already decided
- Why women’s reactions keep rewriting the defendant as the wounded party
- Joshua Charles, modesty, and the dating standard that broke the timeline
- What Catholic men and women actually owe each other when the gallery is screaming
