Kind of amusing, if they weren’t going to die horribly and let their nation be conquered:

She’s marched for miles carrying gear that weighs as much as she does, killed animals for food during survival training and practised jumping out of planes to get behind enemy lines. But Jannike, a pony-tailed 19-year-old from northern Norway, will only concede that she’s “pretty tough”. She is part of the Hunter Troop, the world’s first all-female special forces training programme. “I wanted to do something bigger, the toughest the army could offer me,” Jannike says. “I wanted to [see] how far I could push myself…” Jannike speaks calmly but with conviction. She says that in a peaceful country like Norway, it’s difficult for her to keep in mind during training that they are actually “learning to kill”. “But I try to have that perspective, because that’s what we’re really training for.”

There is a difference between being able to do violent things, and having the instinctual urges to do violent things. All of the females I ever ran into in the martial arts lacked that underlying reflexive aggression and violence that I saw in most of the men.

Don’t get me wrong. I’ve known malicious bitches who could really enjoy being a sniper, and popping guys while remaining so hidden they couldn’t be found. I could see some women getting very good at that, just because they enjoyed it so much. But my impression has always been that putting women in the crush of violence that occurs between overtly violent men, where you only survive by ignoring risk and striking out violently, immediately, no matter the circumstances, is a prescription for failure.

Nevertheless, it is a good example of reversal in sex-specific traits, amygdala-atrophy detaching from reality, and something that can only exist when conflict is barely imaginable. This is r-selection.

Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because some things require specific instincts