When we look at old passages from even scholarly sources of, say, Victorian England, it seems that people back then believed almost all women would face syncope at the drop of a hat. Fast forward to today and in my lifetime I’ve only seen two people faint: one was a woman and the other a man. It seems like this stereotype was rooted in fiction instead of fact, but then how did it persist for so long? Was it corsets? Did the stereotype exist in societies other than European ones?