There was a post a couple of days ago about men's mental health. Any sympathy I might have had for men and their mental health vanished this morning when I read this article. A new study has found that in socieities that are very gender unequal, women have thinner cerebral cortexes, caused by chronic stress. Women are literally getting PTSD and depression from patriarchy and it's changing their brain structures.
https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/gender-inequality-linked-to-brain-structure
FFS we (or, men, rather) need science to tell us (men) that abusing and opressing others causes harm? Because never believe women. Or something..
Are some people really that thick?
Although I guess this isn't the only example.
Honestly, the mind boggles. BOGGLES.
There is a reason women get more autoimmune disorders as well.
And then the men say things like, 'I've never met a woman who isn't depressed'.
This makes me so angry and sad. Also because they're forbidden from doing things that create positive and healthy connections in the brain: learning, going to school, reading, using a computer, driving, travelling, speaking to people, going to the doctor, literally looking at their surroundings unobstructed by a veil.
Be born. Serve purpose in life as hole for man to yell at, hit, and put his dick in. Become brain damaged. Have zero way to escape any of it. Death.
Similar things happen in all marginalised communities. This isn't news.
Chronic stress can definitely affect you physically! That's why the post-breakup (w/an LVM) glow-up is a thing, also the brain fog and fatigue that comes with being in an abusive relationship.
Apparently married women typically report lower health and happiness than single women.
I wonder if this is why women in India and the middle east die so much earlier than women elsewhere. It can't all be malnutrition and lack of healthcare.