Let these women spend a summer in Texas with no a/c, they would be singing a different tune.
I was raised on the high plains and Rockies with no AC. No problems.
Then my dad moved us kicking and screaming to the Ozarks with it’s high humidity. Thought I was gonna die! No AC in the Ozarks for ten long years!
We had several workers transfer to our plant from Montana and North Dakota. They didn’t last too long as they could not take the heat! Temp wise it was no hotter than Montana, but the humidity made everything feel like it was 20 degrees hotter than it really was.