That's an exploit. Besides, doing extraordinary things within game context isn't the issue. Why not have unicorns in the game? Or pegasus wings on tanks that can fly and drop glitter bombs on the Nazis that make them happy and non-violent? Why not? It's just a game, remember?
I had to sit and think about why this is so irksome to me. Simply put, women have not earned it.
Not historically, and not on a scale larger than extreme outliers or until situations were so dire that there was no choice.
The untold number of men that died on battlefields thinking they were protecting their families, or countries. Died, were maimed, or traumatized for their families that paid the ultimate sacrifice only after they gave up theirs is brutal conflict.
All for petty social pandering. It also diminishes the extraordinary nature of those outliers to place the generic stand-ins in common parlance. It normalizes a role and honor not earned by a standard demographic.
Perhaps it irks me more because I have served and know people who have paid grave prices. Seeing the woman kicking in doors dude-style is comedy to me because I have seen female units in action.
I've seen women who couldn't even mount their own weapon systems in gunner positions. Hell, I even saw one that couldn't charge her own 50 cal. That's some bulls*** if you know what I'm talking about.
I have many studly women in my family. My mother and a sister are police officers. Good ones. I have another sister in the Army currently who is about as studly as they come.
She's also had a number of surgeries from wear and tear because her body is not able to handle the continuous stresses the job demands (and she's not even combat). She's no outlier either. There are Pentagon studies showing higher levels and frequency of injury, even instances of infertility directly caused by the bodily stresses that women aren't biologically adapted to, beyond not meeting the same physical standards.
I understand why. I do. inclusion, empowerment. That's fine. It is only when applied to these historical contexts and roles that I find myself feeling this way. It's easy to say "who cares" when the subject means nothing to you.
At the end of all that- it's still just an eye-rolling irritation. It does look like a fun time. It just falls into "silly game" territory now, and doesn't hold the world shaking import of the time.
