Calls to conscript women into the Ukrainian army are growing – but the reality is that they are already being recruited as contract soldiers, Institute of CIS Countries researcher Alexander Dudchak tells Sputnik.
People who think War isn’t Women’s Business utterly confound me. Have you not met a woman? Have you not looked into the history of Feminism in the diversity of forms it has taken all over the world?
It is not for me to demand people go to war, rather my point is that the idea that Women aren’t fit for War is borderline delusional to me. Almost all of the hardest fighting, most practical, resilient human beings I have met in my life are Women, I would be terrified to try to fight them on a battlefield and I am thankful most of them were good people.
The point really in the end though is nobody should have to go to war so russia should stop its illegal war and occupation of Ukraine.
In this absurd moment I am reminded of my favorite novel Ulysses and how Ezra Pound once declared the problem with publishing in english at the time was it wasn’t masculine enough… and then proceeded to be unable to find anyone but anarchist women who were brave and militant enough to publish James Joyce with their printing presses because they could not be beaten and intimidated out of doing so in the US like the men were. You point at these people and say “they are unfit for war!”. What are you crazy?
People who think War isn’t Women’s Business utterly confound me. Have you not met a woman? Have you not looked into the history of Feminism in the diversity of forms it has taken all over the world?
It is not for me to demand people go to war, rather my point is that the idea that Women aren’t fit for War is borderline delusional to me. Almost all of the hardest fighting, most practical, resilient human beings I have met in my life are Women, I would be terrified to try to fight them on a battlefield and I am thankful most of them were good people.
The point really in the end though is nobody should have to go to war so russia should stop its illegal war and occupation of Ukraine.
In this absurd moment I am reminded of my favorite novel Ulysses and how Ezra Pound once declared the problem with publishing in english at the time was it wasn’t masculine enough… and then proceeded to be unable to find anyone but anarchist women who were brave and militant enough to publish James Joyce with their printing presses because they could not be beaten and intimidated out of doing so in the US like the men were. You point at these people and say “they are unfit for war!”. What are you crazy?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/women-behind-james-joyce-ulysses-180980398/
https://www.wttw.com/playlist/2026/02/12/margaret-anderson-biography-little-review-ulysses
https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/en/art/in-depth/peggys-friends/emma-goldman/
^ do you want to tell me emma goldman wasn’t a soldier…???