In several myths, Athena is shown besting Ares,
the male war god.
Not exact matches
Deut 20:12 - 16 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make
war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: And when the LORD thy
God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every
male thereof with the edge of the sword
According to this view,
God is glorified in seeing swords driven through the chests of curly - haired toddlers, in pregnant women being stabbed in the belly before being murdered themselves, and in old men and women begging for mercy but being denied it — just as
God was glorified in the death of all the firstborn Egyptian
males (Exodus) and in the taking of twelve and thirteen year old girls as spoils of
war (Numbers).
However much those forms recognized that
males were socialized more toward
war than were women, they featured an ethic of peacemaking based on Christian conversion to
God's will for peace on earth that was directed to men and women equally.
Males and females who have, sometimes impatiently, turned this into a fight, into a culture
war, instead of the grace of conversation over time as we each listen to
God's Word as the way forward.
Until she shows off her ability to be a ferocious warrior, Diana is at the mercy of endless mansplaining: why it's dangerous to fight the German army on her own; why she shouldn't be speaking during a meeting of
male British officers; why she's wrong in her belief that the
god of
war Ares is behind the German aggression (in the form of Danny Huston's fuming General Ludendorff).
Played freedom
wars,
god eater, and toukiden and kinda wished the only gender option was
male because of the waifus in those games.