The function of the myth that women are emotionally weaker than man has been to maintain the prejudice that, while man is the supremely rational and intelligent creature, woman is the creature of her emotions. The strong silent man stands by with a stiff upper lip and a face rendered immobile by a trained incapacity for emotional expression and thus ministers to the supposed need for sympathy and support for his frail emotional, nervous little woman is it any wonder then that there are so many more men than woman in our mental institutions, that all over the world they commit suicide so much more frequently than woman, have four times as many stomach ulcers, and show the physical and functional disorders of emotional disturbances in general, so much more frequently than woman