Good points, Pilgrim. We live in an age when woman want to be fighter pilots and boxers, and men want to have sex changes and be nannies.
The only case I could think of where a woman could justly fight would be in resisting rape or any kind of attack on herself, her children, etc., or the kind of situation we used to have in Northern Ireland, when Protestant farmers' wives would stand guard with shotguns while their husbands worked in the fields during the time when the IRA was active, because many Protestant farmers were also part-time members of the security forces and thus prime targets for the terrorists.
