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HappySqurriel said:

Just on a side note, very few societies throughout history have allowed women to be soldiers in a large part because women are physically not as well suited to being a soldier as a man is. This isn't sexist, or misogynistic, it is physics because a man is more physically able to put on 25 to 50 pounds of armor and swing a 5 pound sword while carrying a 5 to 10 pound shield.

With that said, the invention of firearms has reduced/eliminated the advantage men have when it comes to war; and there is nothing that says that women today could not be as good of a soldier as a man is.

I assume that those African societies didn't use armor, but still the women were remarcable warriors (ans as I said in my example, the women warriros from a tribe could beat male European colonists in physical combat, though they couldn't beat their shotguns).

Also, how many women in Western societies put any effort in improving their physical conditions (not silly things like diets or weight lost, but actually becoming more physicially strong, or learning fighting techniques)?