Thank you kindly , it ' s a pleasure . <| sep |> Dang nice nipple there . <| sep |> Oh , come now . Personally , I have far fewer bouts of depression as an old woman than I did as a navelgazing , selfabsorbed teen . Are you disputing that there is a disproportionately high incidence of depression among middleaged women ? Because the literature seems to disagree with you . As far as the rest of my hypothesis goes , I admit it ' s just a hypothesis but it does have some consistency with common sense . Suffering a loss triggers negative feelings in most people so it ' s reasonable to hypothesize that a major loss will exacerbate or cause depression in a lot of people . It ' s also true that women in the West enjoy quite a lot of benefit from their sex appeal which drops pretty dramatically as they reach middle age . So my hypothesis is pretty reasonable . Perhaps your objection is that you don ' t like it because it puts women in a negative light .