Wednesday, December 03, 2008 | 3:50 p.m.

Why Are So Many Women Depressed?

by Dennis Prager

It is widely reported that women suffer depression at twice the rate of men. Apparently, more women are clinically depressed than ever before. On the assumption that these assessments are true, the question anyone interested in the subject — which means anyone who cares about any woman — asks is, why?

In a recent column I offered one explanation — the impossibly high expectations for happiness that feminism created for many women.

There are other possible expla ...

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Posted by: Matt
Comment: #1
Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:46 AM

Regarding the nameless Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:37 AM comment...would you care to demonstrate exactly when or where Prager advocates the view that women should be treated as property? That's what is done in Muslim cultures today. Prager is talking about a Western culture that has stopped teaching women to control themselves and to be strong and independent, as their grandmothers were. It's the very opposite of owning women as property. I think it's funny, too, how the word "antiqued" (I think you mean "antiquated") has this horrible, negative connotation attached to it by liberals, but we're never told the reason for that. If it happened in the old days, it MUST be bad, right? Today, we're progressive and enlightened and have no need for the self-control that was taught to our sons and daughters in the past. Right?

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Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:37 AM

Yes! let's go back in time to when women were property. Property can't get depressed - and if it does - who cares as long as they bring their strong, manly men dinner! By the way, your antiqued ideas about gender just show your age.

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