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Elayne Boosler

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker contrasts eating or shopping with invading a country as responses to depression, assigning those actions to women and men respectively. The exaggerated comparison is a gendered judgment rather than clinical information or a verified pattern.

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