To me the joke isn’t “wife bad”, it’s "this is why the phrase ‘calm down’ shouldn’t be in your vocabulary.

There used to be a webcomic (Abstruse Goose maybe? I can’t remember and can’t find it) where the first panel is “things that calm me down: drinking tea, hot baths, watching a funny movie.” Second panel: “things that don’t calm me down: ‘hey calm down, bro.’”