Women Warriors May Have Battled In Ancient Cambodia

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GGG Ping.

[MrEdd]

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cool

[Izzy Dunne]

I surrender.

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[TruthConquers]

“It’s originally a European concept that women are weak and therefore should be protected.”

So, is that right? So why did the Chinese bind the feet of little girls? Where are the Chinese women burials? How about Mongolian women burials? Women samurai?

Silly journalist, just can’t help themselves, have to trash western culture, it’s part of the agenda.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

Weak? I’ll put the women battling on Black Friday to get the best shoes against any army!

[WilliamofCarmichael]

How about the Vietnamese?

Trung Trac and Trung Nhi (the Trung Sisters), were daughters of a powerful Vietnamese lord who lived at the beginning of the first century . . .Vietnam was under the rule of the Chinese Han Dynasty. Vietnamese women still had many rights . . . while in China women had lost their privileges due to the popular teachings of Confucius requiring women's subservience. Vietnamese people did not actively oppose the Chinese rule until the year 39 AD when they began to feel oppressed. . . . the Trung sisters organized a rebellion. With the support of various tribal lords, they formed an army of about 80,000 men and women. Thirty-six of the generals were women, including the Trung sisters' mother. . . They won back the territory [occupied by China] extending from Hue into southern China and they were proclaimed co-queens. . . .

It didn't last long but they did succeed.

[puroresu]

I'm sure the article is feminist nonsense, but it's still a good excuse to post a photo of Ziyi Zhang:

[wardaddy]

the agenda is to make the exception no matter how tiny and nearly nonexistent the rule

and many here play along.

most under 40 conservatives are just as PC on social hot button gender and race and religion issues as the left

this forum is full of them...

[TruthConquers]

Interesting. Didn’t the Chinese back the Viet Cong?

History does seem to repeat itself.

[JimSEA]

There is certainly no shortage of legends for women stepping in to fight during extreme times. Also women in Southeast Asia have a much better situation socially and economically closer to equal rights than women in China, for instance. Still, women have been “powerful” in the home and village but only occasionally beyond. Thao Thep Kasattri and Thao Sri Soontorn who saved Phuket and Queen Cama Bodhiramsi the founder of Lamphun in Lanna (the North) were warrior leaders certainly but Thep and Thao were forced into their warrior deeds.

[Last Dakotan]

indicating there may have been a civilization with female warriors...

If they had been successful wouldn't this civilization be here today?

[Rembrandt]

Most large cities in Vietnam have a street named “Hai Ba Trung.” That translates to the “Trung” sisters.

In the second century A.D., the Trung sisters supposedly led an army against Chinese invaders. They are typically pictured with swords atop fighting elephants.

The Chinese won but the Trung sisters are worshipped in politically correct, Communist, Vietnam.

Note that I included “politically correct” and “Communist” in the same sentence — that was very intentional; that’s where the lefties will take the U.S. Her Thighness will drive the bus.

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The Trung Sisters

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The Biographies of Thao Thep Krasatree and Thao Sri Soon Thorn

[justa-hairyape]

Ever hear of Joan of Arc or Queen Scotia or the Scythians ?

[Chewbacca]

Just more proof that women need to be added to the US Selective Service system and sent into combat to fight.

Feminist Equality and Equal Rights and all such.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "The Chinese won but the Trung sisters are worshipped in . . . ."

The cursory checks that I have done all indicated that the Trung sisters-led rebellion did manage to drive the Chinese out; but, the Chinese returned a few years later and defeated the Vietnamese.

Are there accounts that dismiss the reported accomplishments of the Trung sisters?