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Yo why is it only women who faint when they see blood in old movies

Not hating on it, we all love old movies, but like... How can the chicks be grown-ass women who faint at the smallest sight of blood? How do those chicks handle their periods? Do they even HAVE periods or are they so malnourished they drop it? IDGI
Dolimyte · 41-45, M
I know the wearing of corsets restricts blood flow and can increase the likelyhood of fainting, but I think its mostly because those movies are written by misogynists that want to show how weak and frail the female character is.
SW-User
Ehh idk, I almost fainted from having blood taken from me for a report. Not the sight of it, but feeling it being extracted. The staff said grown ass men do it too. 😅
firefall · 61-69, M
because they were all made by men who were invested in the idea of women being frail and delicate. God knows what they thought happens in childbirth
abe182 · 46-50, M
I knew a woman who would at seeing one drop. She was a popular SW member too. It happens.
Lmao! !! Lollll. So true!
It's a sexist thing
In those old movies the men
Should be strong and the women a dainty flower to be rescued. It's complete bullshit but that was then.
You obviously haven't seen Doc Martin😄
Because old movies were often based on sexist, ignorant beliefs. Next question ? 😉
MethDozer · M
Corsets, atropine, "tooth drop, cough medicine", and malnourishment
NorthernRoses · 22-25, F
@MethDozer Makes sense for a LOT of the chicks, but I'm not so sure about the ones in, for example, Bonanza and other Wild West movies. 😅
MethDozer · M
@NorthernRoses Yeah it does. Those were the times when that stuff was common for women. If you notice, nearly always it is affluent debutante or some kind of upper class socialite type women fainting in westerns, horrors, and other movies set around the Victorian age or just past. It is rarely Ms. Kitty or the castle maid fainting.

I see people take it as mysogyny. Maybe it was at times or all the times. Yet there are tangible theories way women fainting was a common thing and in the old movies it often seems to be portrayed to a certain class of women and more a representation of a class than just a gender. Just a overthinking thought.

 
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