/lit/ - Literature

>>23140137
here ya go
when medieval writers are recording this shit down as a matter-of-fact footnote in a logistics ledger, that lends a lot more credence to authenticity than the poetic license of Ludivico Ariosto's Bradamante cutting down 10,000 saracens for Charlemagne and then flying across the ocean on a hippogriff to rescue her one true love Ruggiero from the foul sorceror Atlantes

>>23140144
There is good reason to believe that the Sarmatians/Scythians' tendency to train their women in horse-riding and archery founded the basis of the Greeks' myths of the Amazons, and it is not at all impossible that a so-called "Penthesilia" participated in the Trojan War.

>>21739434
>Like an army of teenage boys being taken seriously.
You know it's bad enough you started from a point of historical ignorance, but this is really laughable - the youth of military figures during the Middle Ages is their most uniform and striking attribute. Boys would train for knighthood (or its equivalent in pre-chivalric societies) as early as 7, and would be expected to acquit themselves in warfare when they were 14 or 15. And this is ignoring the very common presence of females in warfare during the European middle ages - arguably, women were combatants at a higher rate in Europe during the thousand years between the Fall of Rome and the discovery of the Americas than any other point or place in history before or since. There is an endless litany of female shield-maidens, female knights, female crusaders, female jousters, female mercenaries, female archers, female handgonniers within the corpus of respectable medieval European literature, and I am not speaking merely of cheerleaders like Joan of Arc, that it defies reason to be against the concept.
Of course that's a different discussion from whether women SHOULD fight, or whether women can fight on an equal level as men, but that they DID fight is historically incontrovertible, and ipso facto realistic.

>countless real world attestations of women accompanying men directly into battle, whether out of martial spirit or life-or-death practicality
>innumerable fictional accounts from the past of women warriors in the epic legends of historical cultures,, from the Amazons faced by Hercules or Digenes Akritas, of Bradamante in Ludovico Ariosto's poetry, of Mulan
>newfags from r/MGTOW complain about women fucking existing IN FICTION
I hate vargposters so much its unreal

>>19955749
>countless real world attestations of women accompanying men directly into battle, whether out of martial spirit or life-or-death practicality
>innumerable fictional accounts from the past of women warriors in the epic legends of historical cultures,, from the Amazons faced by Hercules or Digenes Akritas, of Bradamante in Ludovico Ariosto's poetry, of Mulan
>newfags from r/MGTOW complain about women fucking existing IN FICTION
I hate vargposters so much its unreal