Why Do Women Always Have To Look After Their Man’s Health?

Is it too much to ask that they look after their own — and maybe even ours?

Maybe you saw it, the video of Jill Biden pulling her masked husband, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, away from reporters to keep him socially distanced.

I saw it on Twitter and “liked” the video clip and retweeted it because it seemed sweet and loving. And so I didn’t think too much about it until I saw a tweet from Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, a huge promoter of marriage as the answer to everything — poverty, loneliness, health, etc.

“*This* helps visualize why married men live longer,” he tweeted.

And then I got a bit miffed.

Not just because it was promoting marriage over any other form of relationship, romantic or not. I’m sure unmarried women, whether cohabiting with or living apart from their romantic partner, would do the same. This is not something you agree to as part of a marriage license. Actually, even good friends would most likely do the same.

No, what bothered me is that it’s, once again, the woman watching over her man’s health. That it’s somehow a woman’s responsibility to help her man live longer.