“Light troops can still do lots of damage and in particular they can be good at exactly what the Amazons were attributed with, raiding, because of their greater speed.”
While women would seemingly capable of firing arrows from horseback, women warriors as a concept remains contrary to human nature.
People point to the Israelis, but they don’t put women into front-line combat any more. They discovered that it is a bad idea.
There may have been aberrations in the past, as there are today, but I do not believe that any culture was happy enough with young girls dying in battle that they continued it for any protracted period.
I’ve not been even remotely arguing what you seem to think I might be.
But if I were to: have you never heard it said that a people’s greatest madness will seem most normal to them?
Yes, madness can be sustained. That doesn’t mean it isn’t madness, but unless it is actually got some sort of self destructive feed back action going on that must end badly(like federal spending, for example) it might even be sustained for a long while.
We live in a society that basically celebrates any unfaithfulness, any unrighteousness, and out-right perversion and murder of the innocent just so long as sex is involved so the only way someone couldn’t be unaware that there are cultural “aberrations” is if they have their head shoved up their can for ideological reasons so they can’t see what’s going on around them.