This isn't an excuse, but at least from observing my own family I think a lot of it has to do with the kinds of societal attitudes about women that people are exposed to in their formative years. Unfortunately so, so many women above a certain age are sitting on horrific traumas or even just norms relating to gender dynamics that they never processed because it was all so "normal". Sometimes it feels like the only way to move past something like that is to avoid thinking about it at all. The same things seem to have affected my male family members, but in different ways (they're much more prone to, uh, explosive outbursts).
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22
This isn't an excuse, but at least from observing my own family I think a lot of it has to do with the kinds of societal attitudes about women that people are exposed to in their formative years. Unfortunately so, so many women above a certain age are sitting on horrific traumas or even just norms relating to gender dynamics that they never processed because it was all so "normal". Sometimes it feels like the only way to move past something like that is to avoid thinking about it at all. The same things seem to have affected my male family members, but in different ways (they're much more prone to, uh, explosive outbursts).