During an interview promoting her match with Stephanie McMahon at SummerSlam later on this evening in Los Angeles, Brie Bella discussed her relationship with Daniel Bryan. The two are married and, like any couple, they argue. Her viewpoint on as much is somewhat troubling, however (via Behind the Curtain):
"We disagree, absolutely. But it's really funny because he's very quiet and, like, when he gets mad he'll just kind of be like 'I don't like what you're doing right now, and what you're saying and I just need to go in the other room to decompress'. Where I'm like 'DAMN IT' and, like, I voice it really loud and he's like 'you rasied your voice'. I'm like, 'that's not raising my voice'. He's like 'that was raising your voice!' So that's how we argue, which is weird. I'm more, I think, the man and he's like the woman in the relationship. But we rarely do."
To help put into words the issue with those comments, I enlisted the help of The Lady J:
It's one thing to define your relationship by the concept of "one of us handles disagreements by getting loud and yelling (ie me) and one person tends to get quiet and needs to be alone (ie him)", but to say that makes one of them intrinsically male and one intrinsically female is absurd.
Are Brie's comments a huge deal? Certainly not. But it's an archaic viewpoint that only promotes an outdated notion of gender roles within a relationship. Considering her platform, that's unfortunate to say the least.