Women can be the weaker sex and lack of self control during crisis, but that statement is not always true. Based on “The Dinner Party” it states, “the young girl who insists that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era, and a colonel who says they haven’t” (Gardner 30). In this quote, you have the young girl who believes that women are now stronger than the “damsel in distress” stereotype. However, the colonel thinks women are still weaker than men in a crisis, and that applies to some women, but not in all women. It also states that, “a faint smile lights up the woman’s face as she replies ‘because (the snake) was on my foot” (Garner 31). This is the scene in the passage when the woman relies that the snake