Society’s perception of women has always been skewed. I took a psychology class that, when going over the fundamentals in the early days, some of the first studies were done on the emotional regulation of women compared to men. These studies have been done over and over again, always showing the same thing: That women are no more emotional than men, and no less effective at regulating emotions. Over a hundred years later and we still have to keep proving it. If the truth that we are just as rational and intellegent as men were to be widely accepted, it would become a lot harder to blame us for our apparent lack of stoicism and grace. Unfortunately this imbalance is so ingrained in people’s perceptions of women that even cold, hard facts haven’t changed their minds.