[SkyDancer]

I don’t think that women will be afraid that enemy combatants will file charges over them being over exuberant in their defense.

[Chainmail]

You completely miss the point: it would never occur to a man to allow another man to attack him. Our testosterone-driven brains would cause us to take the adversary on, using whatever lay at hand as necessary. For a law enforcement officer to just allow him/herself to be beaten nearly to death is ridiculous and incomprehensible.

In the infantry, the only successful combatants have to be able to kill without any second thoughts. Hesitation is death to yourself and the men around you.

The next hard part is getting them to stop after they've started. No place for ladies (or soft men), period.