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

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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.