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,women is the creature of her emotion. the strong silent man stands by with a stiff upper lip and a face rendered immobile by a tained incapacity for emotional expression and thus minister to the supposed need for sympathy and support for his frail emotional,nervous "little women"is it any wonder then, that there are so many inore men that women it our mental institution, that all over the world they commit suicide 50 much more frequently than women, have four times as many stomach ulcers,and show the physical and functional disorder of emotional disturbances in general. so much more frequently than women?