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Many women suffer from postpartum depression. I have seen 2 or 3 of such cases. One case was severe, the women went total ape-shit after delivering her baby. The symptoms were like: 1. Mood disorder, like her mood was so unpredictable that people used to get scared of interacting with her 2. Talking to herself 3. Getting into constant fight with her partner and in front of everyone, in public etc. I am sure she had more problems that I don't know of.

Interestingly, in all cases that I have seen, the partners (male) were quite short and not conventionally attractive. In the third case, the husband is barely 5 foot tall (but is decently rich). I have a hypothesis that it has something to do with the attractiveness of the male. Bearing a child of a genetically inferior male is basically a reproductive failure. All animals prefer a strong and attractive male to mate, I guess I don't have to elaborate this biological fact.

My hypothesis is, if a woman is forced to mate with an unattractive, short, weak (i.e. genetically inferior) male (because of different societal and economic situations/pressure), then the female is more prone to suffer from postpartum depression. I was wondering if there is any study on this.


[–]TheDevilsAdvokaat12 points13 points  (1 child) | Copy Link

Wow. Food for thought and I would be interested in seeing the data on this.

I suspect it would certainly be true in some cases --- we've heard of buyer's remorse and fucker's remorse; this would be reproducer's remorse....

[–]chudur-budur[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

I suspect it would certainly be true in some cases --- we've heard of buyer's remorse and fucker's remorse; this would be reproducer's remorse....

There definitely exists "fucker's remorse" for women, specially after drunk sex with an unattractive man. Now imagine getting pregnant and delivering the baby that came out of ONS with an ugly male. Must be a horrible experience for women.

[–]meridaville6 points7 points  (1 child) | Copy Link

Cherry picking here but actress Hayden Panettiere suffered post partum depression and the father of her child is Wladamir Klitschko, former heavyweight boxing champion who stands at 6'6.

I think PPD has more to do with some women who lowkey realized they are not ready or don't want to be mothers.

[–]chudur-budur[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

Yea, it's cherry picking from the both sides. You will find lots of totally opposite cases too (i.e. no sign of PPD irrespective of the male partner's attractiveness). The thing is that we don't have enough data. But this is an interesting hypothesis and might be worth studying for researchers who work on PPD.

[–]therandombiker11 point2 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

interesting hypothesis. worth thinking about

[–]ShiniLight0 points1 point  (1 child) | Copy Link

I know this is anecdotal, so take it with a pinch of salt, but I believe it does prove this isn't the case for all women.

My Dad was a lot better looking than my mother and she still had bad postpartum depression, going on for over 6 months.

[–]chudur-budur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children) | Copy Link

This is the same mistake every one does. Women don't compare men with themselves, they compare a guy with other guys. Because females "select", not males. This is also true for most other animals/mammals.

[–]Unstabls 1 points [recovered]  (1 child) | Copy Link

Yes, it's called rape.

[–]chudur-budur[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

Not really, the couple that I am talking about is married for years.

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

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