My experience is that many women tend to let their mouth get their butt in trouble. When you’re surrounded by insane barbarians it is no time to stand there and flap your jaw.
It’s the maternal instinct kicking in. She went into nature’s overdrive. Female animals are very dangerous when they perceive their cubs are in danger. That’s what happened to that woman. If she had fangs and claws she would have used them. The Occupukes are worse than feral mad dogs.
The Female of the Species - Rudyard Kipling
WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When Nag the basking cobra hears the careless foot of man,
He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can.
But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws.
‘Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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