Lindsay Clancy supporters may see mistrial as a victory but its really a step backward for womankind

Millions of American women are celebrating a victory of sorts this weekend — a hung jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial.The case’s future is uncertain.It will likely be difficult to find enough jurors capable of coming to an unbiased decision after the entire country has been riveted by this trial.Follow The Post’s live updates on the Lindsay Clancy trialIt appears that 11 members of the jury favored some form of leniency, whether a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict or a lesser conviction, while one male holdout forced the jury to hang.

He was, it appeared, a modern-day “Juror 8” from the famous play Twelve Angry Men — but in reverse.This is a victory for Clancy, whose team will now enter either another trial with the prospect of another sympathetic jury or plea negotiations with the upper hand.It’s one step forward for Clancy, but one step backward for womankind.In the aftermath of the death of famed feminist activist Gloria Steinem, women have found ourselves set back generations, at the hands of Steinem’s proteges.Growing up, we were told we could do anything.

We could be an astronaut, an engineer, a surgeon, or even the president.Now, apparently, the game is off.Do you want a space shuttle piloted by a woman who could experience such extreme hormonal mood swings that she could snap and murder everyone else on board?Would you trust a building engineered by a woman whose judgment can be clouded by a cocktail of SSRIs and other mood-altering medications?And when the first female commander-in-chief decides it’s time to go to war with Paraguay, should the generals ask: Madam President, are you sure — or are you just mad because you’re PMSing?It’s not just in the professional realm that Lindsay Clancy has set back womankind.

In the most important way, Clancy and her supporters have endangered the most sacred role a woman can ever hold: that of a mother.Across social media during the trial, legions of mothers posted in support of Clancy, ...