Zula of A Submissive With Claws says (emphasis mine.)

According to the BBC, a new study shows that women physically suffer disproportionately in strained (heterosexual) marriages. Whereas men and women both showed signs of depression in unhappy marriages, only women showed elevated levels of hypertension, heart disease, etc.

According to some random counselor quoted in the article, “The gender difference could be partly due to the fact that women’s hormonal profile is more complex than men’s. Women also tend to worry more about their health than men.”

Oh, of course! We women are just walking bags of hormones and neuroses! It couldn’t possibly be because gender roles in marriage are far from equal and women get the short end of the stick more often than not. headdesk headdesk headdesk

I nicked the whole post from here because… what could you cut?.

Yeah, gee, hypertension huh? That doesn’t come from, oh, say, perpetually suppressing your autonomy, intelligence, agency, and sexuality, as some people — like educated professional writer and lecturer Martha Peace — say to this day

It’s common for a young Christian wife to rebel against home life as her primary ministry, Peace writes in Becoming a Titus 2 Woman, which lays out the principles of her ministry model. It’s the role of older women to help her understand her priorities.

Those priorities may include rising early to feed the family, being available anytime to satisfy a husband’s desires (barring a few “ungodly” or “homosexual” acts), seeking his approval regarding work, appearance, and leisure, and accepting that he has the “burden” of final say in arguments. After a wife has respectfully appealed her spouse’s decision—a privilege she should not abuse—she must accept his final answer as “God’s will for her at that time,” Peace advises. The godly wife must also suppress selfish desires (for romance, a career, an equitable marriage), practice addressing her spouse in soothing tones, and maintain a private log of bitter thoughts to guide her repentance. “If you disobey your husband,” Peace admonishes in The Excellent Wife, “you are indirectly shaking your fist at God.”

Source: Mother Jones Magazine via Echidne.

Nope, must be them hormones. (And not your husband, lord, master, and undivorcable conduit to Christ saying, for the 1000th time despite your “respectful appeal” because he thought it was funny the previous 999, “hormones huh? Yuknow how to make a whore moan…?”)

Oh, and, y’know, every day I wake up thinking my lucky stars that men are steady, stable, and completely uninfluenced by our hormones, which, if we had any, would be uncomplicated and never unexpectedly spike in ways that compel us to, oh, say, make impulse decisions we later regret.