/lit/ - Literature

>>18731408
I think it's simpler than that. Women are cool, fighting is cool, so why not create women who fight? Its not a modern thing. There are female warriors even in ancient mythology, and also in medieval epic poems there are female knights. Frankly I'm a hypocrite, because in many circumstances I don't mind it. Girls with swords and guns look cool. It seems to bother me only when fighting is a woman's career- she's a professional soldier, or the head of security, or a rough-and-tumble cop. If she's good at fighting because of divine or magical powers, or she's a cyborg or something, that's excusable. Same if she was forced into fighting by dire circumstances. But a woman picking war as her job is inherently masculine, it makes her masculine, and its extremely unnattractive. It doesn't help that these sorts of characters often try to act tough by cursing, drinking, and roughhousing.