This is that same shit where the media showcases some "heartwarming story" of a child opening a lemonade stand to save for college while his parents are imprisoned. Does anyone read this and think "ah I knew it, Ukraine are the good guys!"
I mean obviously a huge swath of the Ukrainian military is there under duress - even these "volunteer" women, I'm certain - and they deserve sympathy. I just don't get how NYT thinks this is inspiring rather than horrifying.
A lot of "machismo" is simply rooted in claiming one part of an alleged binary and defining it as "masculine" - they do this with everything, including political parties.
If suddenly women were rabidly enthusiastic about conservative politics we'd have mobs of young, divorced men (led by Stephan Molyneux) in the streets foisting a nordic demsoc reign of terror, replete with a "green new deal" and UBI, upon us all.