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Were these bitches capable warriors? They were described as more efficient than their male counterparts.
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And what are some other female military groups?
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>>1225907
Probably more typical imperialist propaganda intent on highlighting how treacherous the tropics were in order to further justify it's colonization.
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>>1227081
Nah it was real
>>1225907
They weren't really women in the sense that they were treated or seen as women, for all intents and purposes they were an elite troop of soldiers stripped of their pasts and intiated into warrior rites of Dahomey.
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>>1227092

They were quite literally considered married to the King of Dahomey, every last one of them.
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>>1227131
You have to understand Fon religion to be "married" has different meaning.

Much earlier, Norris (1789:422) mentioned seeing castrated men in his journeying
through Dahomey. Captain Sir Richard F. Burton (1924[1865]:123) mentioned that “it is difficult to obtain information in Dahome concerning eunuchs, who are special slaves
of the kind, and bear the dignified title of royal wives”: akho’si (from aAkoshu=king,
‘si=wife

Gender was fluid within Voudun
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sabines
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>>1227156
>Gender was fluid within Voudun
Are they octopi or something?
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>>1227243
Fluid rather than static.
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>>1227300
exactly, so their sexual organs could change just like octopi?
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>>1225910
Kurdish female units in Syria and Iraq.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Protection_Units
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Az%C3%AEdxan_Women%27s_Units

Unit of Soviet women pilots who bombed Nazis in WW2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches

Soviet anti-aircraft regiment that was almost all women that helped defend Stalingrad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1077th_Anti-Aircraft_Regiment_(Soviet_Union)

All women Polish militia that fought in the Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Soviet wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochotnicza_Legia_Kobiet
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