Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Historian REACTS to Battlefield 5: "Girl Power" Nordlys Mission" video.

  1. Heard stories from WW2 veterans from the insanities of the war, for example an injured officer, who got a bulled in the head, it didn't kill him, yet, but he couldn't move anymore and instead yelled all the time, half insane and in pain. Another story from a soldier was, how the were shot by the Russians and a comrade close to him just 'exploded' and vanished, hit by an anti air cannon used against infantery. He was obviously one of the survivors and they managed to kill the people at that anti air cannon: it had been women. And yes, that's not a 'girl power' story, that's the story of people fighting for their existence and millions dying for it. It's not girl power, it's insanity. War is insanity.
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  2. I got no problem at all with female character in such setting and all kind of other stories. The big problem is, that they are often terribly written. The main point about male characters is: their sex plays close to no role at all. They are that person. Female characters are often just that: female. And as if to compensate for that, they tend to be way over the top. Even worse when all male characters are made worse, just dumb, brutal and so on, so that female can shine more. There WERE women fighting, but it wasn't girl power. Just as all male soldiers got nothing to do with 'boy power'. Soldiers are lambs for the slaughter. There is nothing heroic about war. Men are told to die in wars for their women and children. If we would value the lives of men as much as the lives of women, war would simply be almost impossible. When I see war stories with female characters and then people think that is 'girl power', it just disgusts me. That's war propaganda. War stories shouldn't be about glorious victories. There is no glory in no war. Never. And evn heroism is just a nicer word for sacrifice. A sacrifice that shouldn't be needed in the first place.
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  3.  @theannoynggamerlovestheusa2566  Who cares, when you can't even come up with a reason, even less an argument?
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  4.  @theannoynggamerlovestheusa2566  And in how far are you disaggreeing with me, then? I don't get it.
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  5.  @arthurvg2217  Question is how much people gonna like that they are reduced to that level of for example being a breeding station or sperm spender. And regarding fighting: that's fucking stupid anyway. What are humans fighting? Only each other. And that's just a gigantic, stupid waste. If we would honor the lives of men as much as the lives of women, good luck wagering war anymore. The lives of men are wasted everywhere, simply because no one gives a fuck about them.
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