I agree with you. Also, I must say, Kurdish women in particular have a very long history of fighting alongside men, when it is necessary. This is nothing new. Do I like it? Of course not. But these things happen, have happened, and often a necessity, not a whim or ‘nice thing to do’.
Two more points to add: 1) I don’t care at all for the headline and the article, because it is written from a Western viewpoint and doesn’t put things in context. 2) I know for sure, most of these women fighters if they had to go and not be captured, and if had the means, they’ll take a few of those animal ISIS jihadis in the process with them. My heartfelt sorrow for these women and the Kurds in general.
From what I've heard the only way you can tell the different between the Kurdish genders is that the MEN have the fuller mustaches and beards. A little bit of Kurdish humor as the Kurds DO intermarry.
Women fighting along side men means that their culture is doomed. Women can best fight from a control panel back at the base, aiming the bombs and drones at their targets.
In hand-to-hand combat women are dead meat. But before that they may be subject to gang-platoon-rape.
Combat is no place for women and SAD is the culture that requires them to be in combat fighting men.