Sarcasm is an adjusted stress reaction.

I'm a Japanese literature major and a large part of my research focuses precisely on the phenomenon of joining religious orders as an escape condition for women who didn't want to conform to expectations such as the Three Obediences or the bullshit in the Onna daigaku (or who just wanted to get out of specific bad situations where the other option would be suicide). Really fascinating stuff. The tradition goes back a thousand years.