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Originally Posted by betty blue hindley wasn't crazy. and why society's perception of gender means that woman are often regarded as caring, compassionate and with maternal instincts is irrelevant. the fact is that those children trusted hyndley, without sociological debate. and she abused this position of trust. she's not "unfairly" regarded as anything other than what she deserves to be. |
Fear not; I had no time for the woman.
All I meant was that even depraved child killers are entitled to a little objectivity (in certain contexts). The British press and tabloids all over the world turned Hindley into an 'icon of evil' for crimes she did not commit all by herself. All too often accounts of this case depict her as the central figure, while Brady has a bit part as the psycho on the sidelines.
Should we care? Okay, not much. I'll admit that.
And no Hindley wasn't crazy, but I was suggesting that she may have temporarily gone crazy in Brady's company - after all, it is now accepted that he was crazy and still is.
(He isn't even IN a jail, but an asylum for the criminally insane.)
Hence my mentioning the possibility that Brady and Hindley were suffering Folie a` deux. Psychiatrists accept that this is a real, but rare form of mental illness. It only becomes controversial when applied to couples like Brady and Hindley and I suspect that this is largely because people think that accepting that such people had a mental illness is the same as giving them a good excuse for their vile deeds. Indeed, some other infamous 'killer couples' HAVE tried using Folie a` deux as a psychiatric defense strategy. (For example, the real-life "Heavenly Creatures" killers, New Zealand schoolgirls Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, tried unsuccessfully to convince the court they suffered from Folie a` deux.)
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