Anyone who learned how to kill, the legitimate crime, in war does not get along well in peace. Soldiers, i.e. males, at least have a choice. You can behave - usual, but uninteresting for the theater. They can become dictators - see Shakespeare. You can set up Freikorps - see German history. You can shift the violence into private life. But what remains of a female fighting machine, especially in the time of the English Wars of the Roses? That's...
