Were these bitches capable warriors? They were described as more efficient than their male counterparts.
And what are some other female military groups?
>>1225907
Probably more typical imperialist propaganda intent on highlighting how treacherous the tropics were in order to further justify it's colonization.
>>1227092
They were quite literally considered married to the King of Dahomey, every last one of them.
>>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
sabines
>>1227156
>Gender was fluid within Voudun
Are they octopi or something?
>>1227243
Fluid rather than static.
>>1227300
exactly, so their sexual organs could change just like octopi?
>>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