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Yeah, I noticed this a while back: that even when fictional media has some supernatural excuse for women to be militarily powerful (often it doesn't), modern screenwriters, as part of the general delusion of modernity, tend to miss the deep unconscious discomfort associated with putting women in a military context as soldiers. There are basically only two contexts in which that happens in real life, and the one that represents the overwhelming majority of cases in the human condition is "a war is so existential that it is deemed worthwhile for the women to fight"; a war can get very, very bloody indeed before getting to that point. The other, distinctly modern case, in which the women are never actually expected to see combat and are functionally institutional decoration for gender egalitarians, is even more rarely what the screenwriters are going for.
In honor-based patriarchal cultures it was also generally expected of a woman belonging to the warrior class (by marriage) or the nobility to grab some bladed weapon and inevitably die a honorable death if the alternative is getting captured and gang-raped by a victorious enemy or mere criminals. (This doesn't apply to peasants, serfs and the servant class, as they are without honor and aren't expected to fight.) Thus it made sense for these women to have at least a minimal familiarity with weaponry. This is probably the reason for the common misconception that shieldmaidens or female samurai existed.
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