In my entire life I have never seen a woman faint, from stress, pain, fear or anything else-- be it childbirth or stabilizing a broken leg. She might throw up from stage fright, loose the ability to speak properly before a particuarily rough exam, but faint? Yet in stories like these women faint right and left for no apparent reason. I mean sure, there was a time when noble ladies with too tight corsets might faint if they breathed in too hard, but that's pretty specific to a (rather short) era of European history. What's up with that?