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>>15644048
>given they actually had women fighting
Women fighting was only as a last ditch resort or used as a symbolizing icon, like Joan of Arc.
Women are, and will always be, physically inferior to men.

Here's a video of the strongest woman in the world armwresling against a bunch of normal guys.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the only way to make a woman intimidating is to give her 'supernatural' abilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF-YeWnIJfU

>"women should stay home, war is for men"
>women are all whores, they prostituted while we were dying in the Pacific Ocean!"
I don't see it as a double standard but more a subtle patriarchal collectivist mindset.

It's actually something I've never seen anyone ever brought up in anything. I read somewhere that in WW2, when the Russians invaded Germany at the end of the war, the losing side felt extremely insulted that *their* women would be fucked by the enemy. This always rubbed me the wrong way since why would you care if anyone had sex with someone else? But it makes sense as a collectivism nationalism mindset of considering woman as things to be owned or gained.

In the manga Hajime no Ippo, there's this villain boxer who's portrayed as a villain by gloating that he's the best in the world and only came to Japan to fuck their women, not really to box. And, obviously, all the Japanese get insulted. The trait that makes it own that he's a villain is the statement that he just wants to fuck Japanese women and he's not Japanese.
I always found that incredibly weird and poignant. If some country invaded yours and their troops fucked your women, why would you care? According to brute individualism, you shouldn't, unless there is a subtle unspoken patriarchal collectivism view that people don't know and recognize.

So, really, I don't see that as double standards. More in the 'we protect you, so we're owed your bodies for this service' type of mentality. It's like being betrayed. It's a really weird view that I've never seen anyone talk about, even among feminist.

>I wouldn't dare trying to decipher their society through manga
Manga is still art, and art is the selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments, based on their culture and environment. So while it is limiting and not to be taken as a perfect insight, it is an insight into japanese culture. The juxtaposition between our western culture and their own, and the influence of both culture mixing is rather interesting.

>the man's family was considered as belonging to him
It's not so much as 'belonging to him' but that the family's responsibility belongs to him and the burden of providing to the family fell on him. You can see this in parallel to Middle Eastern places where if the father dies, it is common practice for the boy of the house to prostitute himself to try and provide for the family.

In those days, being a woman was too valuable and risky, so a patriarch system was needed, especially with wars and all that. It's only in recent times, with the decline of wars and deaths that it has become lax.

>I'm not sure why women seemingly scare men
I dunno either. I just know that they do. As Camille Pagila says, women have a deep rooted mysticism of controlling and men fear it and try to supress women in turn. There is no explanation or coherent reason, it just is.
It's said that the worst thing a man can hear is the giggle scorn of a woman he loves. That feeling alone can scare man and we all know that dread but why?
I just don't know. It's really weird. If you read Napolleon's letters, he talks about love and loving a woman yet not being good enough for her. One of the strongest and most powerful man of his time, and he was unable to tame a woman. It's really weird.