The simple fact is the Imperium doesn’t have time for _WoKe_ nonsense. They just need bodies. Trillions upon trillions of bodies. If you can shoot a Lasgun and follow orders, then you’re good to fight.
@@Gunnar001 you mean they don't have time for sexism or racism, a soldier is a soldier, a human is a human, and are equal as long as they serve the imperium. The imperium may be fascist, but racism and sexism is not typical. Places where sexism can occur can be feudal worlds for example, but such customs are generally looked down upon by the imperium and the Adeptus Mechanicus, see Titan Death for example. Cadia's 'everyone serves' policy is also a good example of how the Guard typically functions.
I always find it easy to spot someone who never read any books on the fluff of 40k. Because if you had you’ll know there is a Shit ton of women in important powerful positions all over the lore. From planetary governors to inquisitors, who’s authority is absolute.
Cadians had female commanders of note and their has also been a number of women serving as high lord. Navigators don't discriminate at all. Planetary Governors by the score not to mention female forepersons and manager of hab blocks and hives and gangs and bars. Women are everywhere in 40K if you take a closer look. Female assassins and Inquisitors, too!
Another factor to consider. The Imperium isn’t a single homogenous society but rather a vast collection of cultures, customs, and laws. How women are among Catacchans can be drastically different from Tallorn, and Cadia’s recruitment drive was measured in births. Add extensive genetic modifications that likely happened during the Dark Age of Technology, on some worlds women could be just as strong if not stronger than men (both on and off world). There might even be entire planets and systems that are matriarchal for one reason or another (House Escher on Necromunda being a good example). I guess what I’m trying to say; it depends where you’re are in the Imperium of Man at the moment.
I hadn't thought of the cadians for this tbh, weren't they supposed to have a population something like 40 billion, and about 40 billion guard? There's 20 billion alone, some are kids, and some are retired... I mean... instructors
@@Nathan5027 perhaps a bit of hyperbole, but since Cadia is/was the first line of defense against the forces of Chaos. It only makes sense they would have a strong military tradition where everyone learns basic self defense and firearms drills as part of the curriculum.... I just pictured a bunch of Cadian kindergartners learning how to field strip, clean and run rudimentary maintenance of a lasgun. That is equal parts awesome and terrifying.
I love how you wrote this, like 41k of gene tailoring and mutations probably led to men and qomen having near or equal physical capabilities, some people here are just sexist omg an example of what some people wrote is "who will make meals" "they are just to make babies" wtf
Females also are the ones who give birth. That ability to give birth means repopulation after losses. This is one reason women are not often placed on the front line. Wartime human rights and policy is often based on recovery from loss, not the hope for a victory or chance the plan went off with out a hitch. "Plan for the worst, hope for the best."
@@samidib10 Higly regulated tech and I would dare to say that most worlds lack the technology to maintain them or view it as heretical. All so its bit establish in the lore that cloning is risky busness.
Wait wait wait..... at your planet they give natural birth? What kind of disgusting Feudal World are you from? Vita Wombs is the best way to go! (KRIEG FOR LIIIIIFE!)
And that more than anything is why women have historically been barred from combat. If your nation or tribe suffers 90% male casualties but all the women of child bearing age survive then so does your culture and people. The actual difference in physical capabilities is a less pressing issue than ladies make babies and babies are any nations futures. 🤷🏼
@@michaell8000 Well yeah, but that isn't something any rational being should expect or rely on to replace their cannon fodder... Especially the Imperium. I'll give you that you're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct, though.
So looking through the comments, I see this point hasn't been mentioned yet so I will do my best to explain WHY there are so few females in the Guard at least. The Astra Militarium recruits it's solders from the very best of the PDF of a planet. They are checking for raw physical capabilities first and foremost when doing said recruitment drives, and Males tend to be more physically dominating. There are larger numbers of female solders in a planets PDF, the books just tend not to talk much about a PDF over the Guard. It's like with the NFL here in the USA. Did you know there is NOTHING stopping a female from trying out for a spot on an NFL team? They don't get picked because, even if the female is in the top 1% of all females, they are still competing against the top 1% of the males, where being able to kick a ball (kicker is the most common position females try out for) just a few more feet will get the coach to pick the male over the female.
I wonder if there exist spezialized troops that would consider the endurance advantages of the female body in the Guard and even improve upon them with gen therapie and implants. I mean there are examples nowadays for squads in the military like mountain hunters in my country but then again the guard isn't known for having a "scalpel" mentality in terms of precision but rather that of a "sledgehammer". I guess gender becomes less relevant in organisations like the adeptus mechanicus as cybernetics allow for alot of modifactions of any kind. Like extra arms with meltas and so on. The thing is theoratically there exists technology in 40k that could alter the differences between the genders in terms of strength, endrucance and so on but is it worth the investment from the imperiums standpoint? Seems they only consider it so in some cases like the callidus assassin where the females gender seems to way better in the operatives intended performance.
@@MrCemicalX even without tweaks women would serve much better in the Navy than the army. The unique physical and psychological characteristics of women make them much more resistant to long duration tours in cramped environments. The US Military did tests for submarine operations and found women handled the stress better. It would be interesting to know the percentage of women in the Imperial Navy, especially if the writers knew that little tidbit of information.
Historically women in an army were nurses but even in modern times the medics are the most popular female soldiers with the best attitude. In 9 years of service I have never seen a female soldier live up to her average male counterpart, the USMC just officially proved what we've always known & the most hated in a unit are the company level clerks (I call cunts) every single one was more trouble then they are worth
@@joshuahogan3475 Very interesting, I didn't know about the navy's studies into the matter. I only knew from my country's in an all female unit that was etablished in a field that before was also mainly utilised by men. Mountain hunters refered to specilized squads in mountains and are probably mostly known for their extensive uses of skis to traverse said terrain in colder climates, at last to the general public. An aspect endurance sure is appreciated.
@@MrCemicalX Well for the most part, the Guard does not give a shit about your gender. While the PDF commanders, Imperial Governors, and Munitorium recruitment officers might spout off about how the Guard takes "the best of the best", at the end of the day, they will take anyone who can hold a lasgun. More to the point, I believe the 1st Tanith "Gaunt's Ghosts", a light recon regiment specializing in scouts, snipers, and other marksmen (a role women excel at) have many female recruits, but this was less of an intentional recruitment drive and more of 'we will take what we can get, half the regiment is dead'
The sisters of battle were created because clergy is banned from having any sort of "Men at arms" aka any fighting men so to speak - and so this was a loophole :D Officially they do not have any men at arms at their disposal... so technically that is true. ;p
@@Ben-of-old-Yorkshire nah, the Ecclesiarch wanted their own force like the Ad Mechs and Astra Militarum. But Goge Van Dire, with his betrayal led the High Lords to enforcing a law that says the Ecclesiarch would never be allowed to have "Men in Arms", and nothing on women. Regardless it's still very funny and 40k for an army made on a loophole to be one of the best lines of defense against traitor and xeno attacks.
@@Ben-of-old-Yorkshire The Administratum allowed for the creation of sisters of battle as an organisation who in theory was supposed to protect the holy sites controlled by clergy. Administratum allowed this because this meant that other miliatry forces would not get "indoctrinated" thus becoming loyal to clergy - they saw this as sort of lesser evil Since still the sisters would have to really on imperial navy for transport between the stars or for ammo and supplies provided from administratum itself. It was a clever way to appear to clergy as giving them some ground all the while keeping a firm hand on the proverbial leash and kept clergy from gaining footholds within other military branches and those were heavily influenced by the good graces of the administratum otherwise they would... meet with problems with shipments or supplies or new ships or parts for them and so on - if you have that kind of power over organisations you can expect them do to what you want at least most of the time ;p Even astartes are to a point not immune to this - or their ships would suffer problems of the same nature - no fuel or parts or shall we say delays in new power armor shipments form mars. The siege of Vraks was a good example what can happen when administratrum wants to exert that kinds of power as they literally ordered some troops to be withdrawn in order to put a snag into inquisitiorial plans there.Which infuriated the inquisition obviously but they couldnt do anything about it as administratrum gave fairly valid reasons for doing so :D
@@Samantha-jv6xu Except sisters of silence usually work not with clergy but inqusition - yet another separate branch of Empire of man and their purpose is mostly dealing with Demons and psykers since nearly if not all of them are blanks (soulless). Thus normally they are out of reach of normal clergy per say. So no - not really we/i did not forgot :D And in comparison sisters of battle are way more numerous since they are normal humans - and sisters of silence are blanks - aka 1 in a million in normal populatio can be a blank and that is assuming she will manage to survive to adulthood and not get killed - since blanks presence is so agravating to normal humans that most of them want to kill them on sight - which makes their numbers extremaly small. Oh and their order was created when the emperor (meaining around the time of the first crusade) was still around and sisters of battle are post heresy organisation. so the same rules do not apply.
@@krzosu don't forget they have a base on the moon of Earth. And were previously exiled pre-Roboute return due to some clerical or political error, and only recently have been officially brought back into the Imperium to help defend the Golden Palace on Terra and join the Indomitus Crusade
The ciaphus Cain novels point out that there are entire regiments made up of women, units are kept as segregated as possible to avoid unwanted pregnancy (as far as the higher command is concerned). When 2 half strength regiments are merged to form 1 full strength one, all the arguments and fighting breaking out is to do with military problems, not sexism. After all, the imperium only cares about bodies for the battlefield, and one bullet catcher is the same as any other bullet catch, whether they have XX or XY chromosomes doesn't matter.
And tbh, it doens't matter how strong you are, if you are fighting against beings more dangerous than a human. It only matters if you can pilot a vehicle, and use a lazgun, so any physical difference isn't much of a concern.
@@MasterGhostf well...not quite. Sure, against chaos marines, the bigger orca and other nasties is useless but against normal heretics, gretchings tau and stuff like this having a strong physique actually help, especially if you get close and personal
@@stefanoputignano1555 we have women in Frontline combat roles irl; for the nations that have them, their only problem is with mixed units, men showing them excess deference and trying to be all chivalrous. All studies and test have shown that there is absolutely no difference in effectiveness between male and female body types in modern combat. Including on the bayonet charge
Gaunt's Ghosts really starts with Necropolis and the recruitment of the Vervunhive civilian resistance and gets the second push with the amalgamation with the Belladon 81st Reconnaissance Regiment. The camaraderie between men and women on the level of the guards, the officers and the commissars is very nice. everyone is welcome to die the the Emperor.
@@V.B.Squire you either keep going until you make commissar in the Imperial Guard or you die for the Emperor. Either way you keep going. Besides this is not about real life, dude.
Inquisitor Katarinya Greyfax Commander Shadowsun Lelith Hesperax Captain Lotarra Sarrin Saint Celestine Tanau Aleya Deathcult Assassins Jain Zar Macha Yvraine Miriael Sabathiel The Sisters of Silence Many, many badass women missed out on before you guys made this video. Many of these names have been feared, respected, venerated and even worshiped across countless millennia in the lore. A number of these even influenced the course of 40k history too. Furthermore, plenty of women serve in the guard. Standardized flak armor and uniforms hide their features, particularly among the Death Korp of Krieg who all wear gas masks. No one escapes the tithe and their duty to the Imperium, man or woman, on pain of death.
You're forgetting the silent sisters also. They are HUGELY important and also work alongside the Adeptus Custodes in guarding the God emperor of mankind, blessed is he.
They were also made by the Big E to counter Psykers and Warp Spawns during the Great Crusade. Unlike the Sisters of Battle who were made recently during the time between the 30th and 40th millenium
It's less that there is gender based discrimination in the IG it's more that they separate male and female units in order to reduce the likelihood of distraction from the opposite gender
@@werdmatthias Though if the Imperium found out that for some reason pregnant women perform better in battle they would systematically encourage this and put pregnant women on the frontlines. The Imperium doesn't see gender. They're all meat to keep the war-machine moving along as far as they're concerned.
Astartes, Grey Knights and Custodes are all male, Sisters of Silence and Sisters of Battle are all female. The Imperial Navy, Astro Telepathica, Arbites, Inquisition, Assasins, Mechanicus and the rest of the dozen other minor branches I didn't list are mixed sex forces. The Imperial Guard has all female regiments, all male Regiments and then mixed Regiments some from formation and other due to combining two low strength Regiments to get a full strength one for combat. Everyone is equal in the meat grinder of 40K. Only those who don't know the setting or are bias and want to change the setting think otherwise.
@@electricfeverx976 he doesn't know much about the setting from the videos I have watched. Most people don't with how big the setting is. Atleast that's my hope and he isn't a SJW who wants to change the setting kind of person.
You made a big misconception here. You misinterpreted a lot about the guard. While yes, mostly men are recruited this is not down to some bias or anything, its because as a man when the draft comes you are more likly to fulfil the minnimum amount of recruirements to be put into a uniform sat into a line and send into your painful death a few moments later. Women are much more common in professional regiments, aka the minority of regiments (and even then they are a minority because of physical differneces and the high standarts of these regiments). The second misconception is that gaunts ghost where all male because they where sexist or anything like that. It was because at least to my knowledge tehy were a all male regiment. the guard splits regiments on creation based on sex, aka ful female vs full amle regiments. (look at ciaphas cain for a explicit example, even if its there a mixed regiment, but they state at the biginning taht both regiments where merged becuase of manpower shortages from a female and male into a mixed one which seem to be the expetion, which is why gaunts ghost only saw female enlistment after they had the first soidiers, becuase why try out for an all male regiment as a women, when you can go into mixed or all female ones (same for males just the other way around, plus a lot of beaurcracy). Lastly especially in the high command sphere of imperial life women are as common as men, or at least near to it. There are many examples in the horus heresy or in later books, though the latter may be a shift from the writers and not a lore shift. So to finish my rant a bit, women and males are seen mostly as equal in 40k, of course a lot depends on the planet you find yourself on. A women will be ppushed into battle as mcuh as a man when the times need it, though the imperium will first send in the men (when they force civillians under arm), because women are more valuble to society in the rebulding phase. A women must work the same as a man and no one will look down upon her because of it, heck if my memory serve me right I belive 40% or so of the high lords is female (please correct me if I am wrong). in a misoginistic society I don't belive 5-6 of the most powerful people in a society would be female and that is ignoring the fact that the custodian representative is alwys male because well he is a custodian, so from the mortal high lords nearly half about half, at leats as long as my memory does not lie.
@@forickgrimaldus8301 tbh, the imperium does not exactly care very much if its one planet exploding or a hundred. Case in point, Kryptman and his anti-tyranids strategy...
No quality, No serious research done, and just *barely* long enough to hit that UA-cam advertising threshold. I guess Generation Films REALLY needs that sweet UA-cam ad money this month if they are pumping out low quality content like this.
And in the video, "women are oppressed" is repeated about once a minute... This is entirely a shitty video with no content, but filled with virtue signalling.
@@Poopoopeepee925 they have mixed units it depends on the regiment some are single gender some are mixed. Vostroyan 1st born are a notable mixed regiment
American Ben is water caste Tau, trying to convince with words, when the Emperor's most holy Inquisition knows that dissent is heresy, and the heretic's only reward is a bolt shell to the head
Bro you had a chance to talk about Nerissa an equally megalomaniacal inquisitor who tried to get revenge for her firmer master by attempting the killing of Gabriel Seth .......... ya know the lady who got a death company sent to a medical barge and got everyone killed. (I just like to take any chance to include my favorite non original chapter in any video)
A man goes through body altering genetic treatment, surgeries and decades of training to become a space marine. A woman has but a drop of faith and puts on armored high heels to become a battle sister.
@@forickgrimaldus8301 courage is the not the absence of fear, but the ability to overcome said fear. Since the space marines have their fear responses spliced out, the battle sisters are the far more heroic of the two.
@@L0stEngineer true but I ment their loyalty not their Courage, obviously the Sisters are more human than the Astates who are almost a different Species of Human.
There is also a lore reason why the sisters of battle are all women because after the reing of blood the eccleshiarchy is forbidden to have men under arms so the ecclesiarchy has the sororitas to get around the rule but they also serve the ordo hereticus of the unquisition.
Is he really politicizing 40K? A setting where the “good guys“ are known for committing mass genocide and forcible lobotomies on prisoners? Slave penal troops with explosive bomb collars? Warhammer 40,000 is one of the more progressive franchises. Women are represented in most factions that have genders. Eldar, imperial guard, Dark Eldar, sisters of battle, Tau, The Inquisition and Imperial Knights.
Inquisitor Amberly Vail wants a few words too and if anything is left, Lady General Jennit Sulla, Corporal Mari Magot and Magos Felicia Tayber would like to step on those remains and then Ephriel Stern, the Thrice-born would like to vaporize those stepped on remains with her mind
1:45 it's not by choice but by Imperial decre that "In the name of His infinite wisdom, and by His immortal authority, we, the High Lords of Terra, do hereby decree the Ecclesiarchy forbidden to gather, train, promote, sustain, or in any way command any force of men under arms." Therefore the Sister of battle are only composed of Female in order to sirconvain an law (and it's badass to have space nones with flamers)
Dual sex regiments. Are more common than you think. Tanith first and only valhallen 597 and most Cadian regiments.if your cadian you fight for the emperor.they are also in the pdf and comisariat. Also don't forget assassins.the only exception is the space marines and that's down to the lore.
The adeptus astartes do have females in the chapter serfs and when I read the novel "siege of the fang" when the thousand sons assaulted the space wolves homeworld both genders fought and died side by side the space marines that where garrisoned, I wish this show did its research properly
@@marvinmason9950 Yes, but there are no female space marines. Even just the fact that males have a bit less genetic information means that there will be less room for failures or mutations. I don't doupt that the Emperor could have made female space marines but it's just not worth it on a larger scale, if we compare the already devastating genetic mutations on the male space marines. But never the less: "siege of the fang" was probably my first book about the WH40k universe (one of the best novels) and now (7 years later) I'm still reading not finished with all the books from the black library, even tough I have now over 40 ^^ For the Emperor!
As far as I know, majority of Imperium is meritocracy: if you're human(or an authorized abhuman), capable, do your jobs well and stay loyal to the Imperium, they don't care about your gender, skin color and sexual preferences(except for xenophilia maybe). There are some organizations restricted to certain genders for multiple reasons(SoB, SoS, SM, etc) though.
“40K is so sexist, there’s no strong female characters.” Enters Lelith Hesperax, who eats space marines for breakfasts while looking hot af. Besides that bare feet is a huge bonus. HERESY!!!!! *BLAM
Space marines, grey knights and Custodes are ONLY MAN armies, same as sisters of battle and sisters of silence are ONLY WOMAN armies. Only exceptions are female serfs to the chapters and male priests supporting the sisterhoods. Guard is extremely inclusive, but some regiments may be not, because beliefs, values and ways of war of each regiment is connected to its homeworld society. There are societies of wild barbarians and societies of spaceship dwellers in the Imperium serving next to each other (and it is on commissars and brass to not mix too explosive/accidental freidly fire/ combinations of regiments)... Of course, wh40k is open and quite rad for fully lemale regiment, granted the fan who introduces it wil provide lore/fluff background and meaningfull in universe context for it :D. And the ruling body of imperium changed, when Guiliman rose back to life. Mostly by assassination of those who were actively fighting against his rule (and wanted back their comfy statux quo).
Women also require different hygienic logistics. You can drop a bunch of guys in a trench for a month and they'll be fine, females would have to be extra concerned about their menstruation and the fact that the vageenama is a wet pocket that collects bacteria. Historically when pushed into combat roles dying of blood infection was a serious issue if their specific hygiene requirements are not met. Extra logistics is frequently impossible and taking to time to keep clean takes your focus away from your duties and in a profession where even your bowel movements are regulated and scheduled its just a problem. I know this is anecdotal but I served with females in a role that wasn't "combat", but we were awarded CABs, and females had a lot more needs to fulfill and limited their combat capabilities. They can fight just fine when they need to, its just an extra layer of logistics and concerns that keep most militaries from putting women in combat roles. Though it had been brought up recently in the US military that they have needed to lower the PT requirements to get more females in more MOS's.
@@AwankO No worries, i just wanted to share my experience on something I feel is regularly misrepresented. People disagreeing is part of healthy discussion.
Femalesx are allowed to join the guard the thing is mixed regiments aren't that common but there are all female regiment in 40k. The reason mix regiments are made is the 2 rtegiments are decimated beound use and so they are mixed with another regiment that has taken similare losses and so make one regiment again.
You can thank the Emperor for no female space marines, the whole transformation from human to space marine is keyed to male puberty (hormone replacement therapy isn't a thing apparently), the sisters of battle were mentioned yes but what about the sisters of silence, the imperial navy, the adeptus mechanicus, the imperial knights, the navigators/other psykers? all feature female characters
If GW would suddenly drop female space marines, this would negate the fanbase, and remove the purpose for the sisters of battle, silence, etc. Everyone (or at least most) has a faction representing cultures and genders in fun and badass ways combined with models. Thats all we need.
The Ciaphas Cain novels have a good number of female characters in positions of leadership. Col. Regina Kasteen led the all-female 296th. Inquisitor Amberley Vail makes a number of appearances with her entourage.
3:31 I’d presume the reason that gaunt’s ghosts didn’t recruit females is because imperial guard regiment are always unisex, (barring exceptions as always). I’d imagine than the reason for gaunt’s ghost to recruit women is that they are a regiment without a home world, so they already can’t fulfill one of the other recruitment rules (recruit from your home world/system). So when they got their first female soldier they may have just decided that they wave so many rules that breaking few more won’t matter, rather than them being sexist beforehand. And yes, all - female regiments are a thing. Granted they show up very rarely, but they do officially exist.
Well, the Sororitas being exclusivelly female is literally because eclessiarchy is legally banned from having any "MEN at arms" due to previous shizm. So, they did a legal plot twist, went with WOMEN in arms, and then won discussion with the Inquisition on technicality. And firepower.
I suspect there are many reasons for fewer women in the 40k military, many (possibly all) mentioned by other posts. 1. Men make better soldiers in a universe where close combat is a thing (on average) 2. Maintaining birth rates is critical for population and therefore troop replenishment given the level of casualties suffered by the imperium on any given day. 2.a Technological reproduction would only be available on certain worlds. 3. Many worlds either are or were reduced to primitive levels after the fall and would resemble similar societies from our past with roughly equivalent attitudes towards women. 4. Where choice is an option women are less likely to choose to enter the military generally speaking. 5. A lot of 40k society takes its lead from Terra and the High Lords are male nobs. 6. (and this is the most important one) The vast majority of WH40k players are or at least were male when warhammer was developing and gender equality wasn't a concern at that time, because it wouldn't sell more figures. When they realised guys would like to paint more female figures than just slaanesh demons and eldar they created the sisters of battle to fill the niche. Overall the perception of what people wanted coupled with real world militaries and their history probably dictated how the lore was written and who it was written for. Edit: Also anything not relating to war is relatively sparsely covered in 40k as far as I've seen.
ONE ANSWER: Commissar Cain is in command of a mixed regiment of women and men. In the first book, it states that women make up roughly 10% of the guard's forces. So if you want some awesome female characters and non-conventional storylines COMMISSAR CAIN is the storyline you want.
Imperium is made of milion worlds and the Imperial governement rarely interacts with them and they are mostly ruled by the governors. As long as taxes are paid, soldiers (of unspecified gender) provided and Emperor is worshiped, the goverenor has the right to do whatever he wants, including the treatment of women and any other human group. And lets not forget, milion worlds equals milion cultures each of these cultures will treat women differently, one planet may be a strict patriarchy the other one fully egalitarian and third one matriarchal.
Not sure if this is canon, but I read this somewhere that I think accurately describes woman's rights in the Imperium: A Planetary Governor once decreed that all woman were to stay at home as that was where he believed they belonged, barring them from working and joining the military. The Inquisition shot him. Not because he was sexist, they didn't care about that, but because he was wasting half of his planet's workforce. Human life is The Emperor's Currency, and the Imperium does not like it when you waste what is The Emperor's. In short: The Imperium is sometimes so despotic that it hits equality from the other side. Also, it goes without saying that in the wide, vast Imperium for all of the planets ruled by a ruthless patriarchy, there are also plenty of planets ruled by a just as ruthless matriarchy.
There are men's and women's sports leagues for a reason. Since war is not a game, there are no separate accomodations made for females. Physical strength, bone density, lung capacity, and aggression will always rule the battlefield.
I served in the Dutch army and we had women in them. Guess how could not stand in fight training. How needed help during the obstacl training. There is simply a differences between men and women. It's simple nature
This is a very weak topic for a whole video. It feels like so little thought was put into making this video. It just screams like you spent 10 minutes on wikipedia then jumped in front of the camera, and rambled for 8 minutes with no real focus. You can do much better. I suggest you make your videos more focused next time. Not to mention you didn't even bother to talk about women in OTHER ALIEN RACES in the 40K universe. Humans aren't the only ones who have women.
Don't forget the Valhallan 597th attached to Ciaphias Cain, under the command of Regina Kasteen. It was made up of two former regiments and one of them was an all female regiment.
You seem to get a lot wrong, the reason that the gaunt ghost didn’t have woman at the start was because it was raised as a men’s regiment. Women get there own regiment this is done because imperial guardsmen serve with each other for many year, this done to keep discipline up and stop them from distracting each other. Although this is not alway the norm as regiment are merch together to keep them at full strength, you should read cain first book as it show this happening and the women commander get overall Command of the new regiment. This is only because she has been serving a little longer than her male counter part, even though he has a lot more combat experience than her. Finally you really should read more of the book as the one that are about the high lord have women as part of the high lords. In all the imperial doesn’t care really, every one is another body to the grinder.
It isnt discriminatory to want to keep those with THE single most important ability, the ability to create qnd succesafully raise children, away from war and violence. But our society makes mountains out of mole hills and says this is that so what do i know.
Well, the benefits of civilization and more stability. If civilization "💩" ever, hits the fan, all those rights get roasted quickly replaced with survival.
I have no idea how you could possibly come to the conclusion that women don't serve as much in the 40K military. There are 500 Trillion Men and Women serving in the Imperial Guard in 40K. On Cadia alone, there are entire families where every single member is a soldier, and they are trained from birth to fight in the armed forces regardless of gender. The fact that you don't know this means you did so little research, and should be ashamed. Delete this video. It is not worthy of having the Generation Tech badge.
@@elitemook4234 the Imperim doesn't care if they make babies or join the war or even become a High Lord as long as they are doing their duty to the Emperor. This extends to Imperial local/Planetary policy, being very hands off as long as they Pay their taxs whatever or however.
@@elitemook4234 no that doesn't work that way in the Imperium, as its very decentralized. Either this is a troll or you have not read up on the lore. You have family houses that are Matriarchies, High Lords who are women, even the Emperor himself enlisted the help of a woman who was 2nd only to him in understanding genetic manipulation and where the Astartes got their name which also comes from Astarte which is the Goddess of War and Fertility, yes Space Marines are named after a woman whos name comes from a fertility Goddess, let that irony sink in.
@@forickgrimaldus8301 I really hope you have a better argument than 'look at all this new lore GW injected in retroactively to pander to identity politics'. But if you did you would not have resorted to it, would you?
This video is poorly researched and makes a lot of assumptions. Just because some groups don't have a perfect 50/50 split of men and women doesn't mean they are actively discriminating against women. The simplest answer why more man are in the armed forces than women is simply that someone has to raise the next generation of soldier back home. Also men especially in the Imperial Guard are send in the millions to die horrific deaths on battlefields all over the Imperium but women are the ones getting discriminated against because they are mostly spared from fates like these, yeah right...
@@michajastrzebski4383 Breeding vats aren't that common in the Imperium. Technology like these are given only to very special planets, like Krieg, since like every technology in 40k it's very hard to reproduce and maintain also if the people of the planet aren't already highly resistant to mutations it can lead to them developing unwanted mutations from overuse.
As much as I love the absolute glut of great 40k content we're getting lately (this channel included obviously) I'd love to see you guys tackle some Battletech stuff. Much like Warhammer, there's lots of rich lore as the game was created in the 80s.
Lotara Sarin is one bad ass woman in all WH40k the commander of the World Eater Flagship Conqueror, the only human, female! given the bloody red hand mark by Angron thus cementing her reputation amongst the World Eater ranks...
Mel, what American Ben does not realize is that there are entire regiments of all female and sometimes coed in the imperial guard. However, I don’t see them anywhere else important.
I do have to mention, that the high lords of terra are sometimes composed of several female humans. They live longer than the average human, but they die eventually. The Imperial guard has several regiments with females as the leading figures (Especially geneformed for that task are the leading figures of the geno two five chiliad) or a nearly equal quota of females to males. Even the husquarls (soldiers of Fenris) are essentially the whole human population of the Aett and the gender is something without any interest. As long as you can serve you will serve. On the otrher hand, there are as many wsystems and policies as there are planets in the Imperium of man. For the Emperor!
You will find different levels of freedoms based on race and gender on different worlds on a local level. The Imperium at large doesn't care what you have between your legs or what race you are (unless you are a xenos) as long as you work, fight and die for Emperor and Imperium.
The average lifespan of an imperial guard is an hour to a day if lucky. I don't think it matters what the guard has between their legs, they be gettin WAAARGH'ed sooner or later.
While the High lords of Terra are "highest" governing body they do need to support of the nobles and influential figures to make some of the decisions, otherwise their rule will be short lived. Also anyone can rise to the top in the Imperium if you are conniving and ambitious enough, not just men. Most just watch some of the visual art of 40k and go "there are not enough women therefore they are not represented". Read the books, there are only women regiments in the Imperial guard, they are psykers, inquisitors, ship captains, nobles in high places, hive gangers, people integral to the story as either main and/or side characters.
I don't know why you needed a whole video for this topic. The answer is short and simple. Life for women in Warhammer 40k is grim and short. Just like it is for the men. All are thrown into the meat grinder of the Imperium's war machine.
There are plenty of female members of the guard but there not mentioned as much as 40k lore is about figureheads if you actually look at the new books you find the guard and stormtroopers are generally well mixed it's just in most cases who you think about the are few influential female figure heads but that's my opinion
Novel wise we slowly start to see more and more females in the Guard for many regiments. The thought process being, why limit half the species to keep fighting? As for the Sisters of Battle, this whole army is literally just one gigantic loophole that the Ecclesiarchy abused since they were mandated to have an army of "men" under arms. In all honesty, it's just like you said, it depends on the world on how they see women. Usually they could give a crap as to who joins the Guard. Can you walk? Can you hold a gun? Can you kinda aim in the right direction? Are you Human-ish? Then you can join the Guard.
Their there are three different types of regimen single sex male, single sex female, mixed sex like the 597 your also stretching it a bit they don’t care if your male or female
1:00 You expect Equality in any form in Warhammer 40k for anyone? Please consult a doctor, because apaprently you just lost your *entire memory* of how the setting works! This is a sum-up I could find with google: "To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. *Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war.* There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods."
The sisters are the only warriors of the Church because of a loophole, the Churche can not have men under arms, so they found a loophole. And the Astra militarum also usually splits Female and Male regiments so that the soldiers don't develop romantic relationships. There are also mixed regiments, (like the Valhallan 597th) but they are not very common
It's also common for 2 regiments from the same world to be merged, if they're devastated during a campaign. These scratch regiments, as they're often called, sometimes have a female regiment merged with a male regiment. If they're an effective fighting force, they don't always get split up afterwards unless one was a mechanized regiment and the other was a light infantry regiment.
the reason the astartes don't have any women, its because all chapters are upgraded from regular humans using a gene seed from their primarch, but all primarchs were men so its actually imposible to implant a gene seed on a woman
If you have 10 men and 10 women you are fine. If you have 10 men and 1 women your in trouble because that's a child every 9 months If you have 1 man and 10 women your fine because that's 10 children in 9 months. I think it's easy to say that a lot of women aren't thrown onto the front line but women are important to keep producing people for the imperium war machine. Of course I don't think like this irl because it's fucking skewd.
I think there are 2 points to be made. Are you talking 40k in books or 40k in other media (like miniatures, games etc)? 1: In case of books, females are represented quite often. Maybe not a fair 50/50 ratio, but rather a 30/70 (obviously depending on what type of story the author is telling) Also noteworthy, that in 90% of the cases females are represented, they are portrayed as equals in the scope of abilities to men. Now in other media, its true that the representation is lacking a bit but GW has taken steps to rectifying it, and make it more compatible with the lore. Exception to this are the Eldar/Drukhari, where females are represented both in books and other media, with a pretty fair 60/40. 2: Another thing I want to point out, that may seem small but i consider to be quite important. There are plenty of female Inquisitors. And I think that this is important, as inquisitors are some of the most powerful members of Imperial society, expected to operate on every planet. Which in turn means that females can and do climb into positions that command huge respect from every branch of the imperial hierarchy. And they are respected not because of their gender, but because of their Job. Its good that you mentioned that every planet has its own way of dealing with gender issues, but I think that Imperial High society in general doesnt concern itself with gender really. It is only shown poorly to the audience/consumer.
Equal Opportunity Cannon Fodder.
And part time training as a sandbag!
The simple fact is the Imperium doesn’t have time for _WoKe_ nonsense. They just need bodies. Trillions upon trillions of bodies. If you can shoot a Lasgun and follow orders, then you’re good to fight.
@@ChineduOpara there's a hierarchy and they don't reproduce sexually, so they aren't
@@ChineduOpara Orks are racists towards their subspecies of squigs (dunno how to spell) and goblins, they treat them as slaves and gun ammunition.
@@Gunnar001 you mean they don't have time for sexism or racism, a soldier is a soldier, a human is a human, and are equal as long as they serve the imperium. The imperium may be fascist, but racism and sexism is not typical. Places where sexism can occur can be feudal worlds for example, but such customs are generally looked down upon by the imperium and the Adeptus Mechanicus, see Titan Death for example.
Cadia's 'everyone serves' policy is also a good example of how the Guard typically functions.
"What would female rights be like in 40k?"
40K: rights? what rights?
The right to DIE FOR THE EMPEROR.
The fuck are rights in the Grimdark future. You have the right to die for the Emprah, that's all that really comes to mind
Laughs in your only right to die for the Emperor.
They have none, but that makes them equal to the men, who also have no rights. Only duty for both!
Equal right to die for the imperium and emperor 💀🗿
I always find it easy to spot someone who never read any books on the fluff of 40k. Because if you had you’ll know there is a Shit ton of women in important powerful positions all over the lore. From planetary governors to inquisitors, who’s authority is absolute.
There are also sooo many female admirals, ships captains and officers throughout the Imperial Navy too.
You can tell he does not know his 40k. Sisters of Silence and The Blanks have entered the chat.
Cadians had female commanders of note and their has also been a number of women serving as high lord. Navigators don't discriminate at all. Planetary Governors by the score not to mention female forepersons and manager of hab blocks and hives and gangs and bars. Women are everywhere in 40K if you take a closer look. Female assassins and Inquisitors, too!
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Yes. Like that assassin who managed to kill Curze.
@@hunterv9983 I think "euthanized" Kurze might be a tad more accurate.
@@gustadood9166
Thanks for the spell check
Blanks can be male as well - like Jurgen, aide to certain comissar. Or that guy in service of inquisitor Eisenhorn.
Another factor to consider. The Imperium isn’t a single homogenous society but rather a vast collection of cultures, customs, and laws. How women are among Catacchans can be drastically different from Tallorn, and Cadia’s recruitment drive was measured in births. Add extensive genetic modifications that likely happened during the Dark Age of Technology, on some worlds women could be just as strong if not stronger than men (both on and off world). There might even be entire planets and systems that are matriarchal for one reason or another (House Escher on Necromunda being a good example).
I guess what I’m trying to say; it depends where you’re are in the Imperium of Man at the moment.
I spoke to this! But, well said.
There is an example of a matriarchal world in 1 on the Astra militarum/ imperial guard codexes
I hadn't thought of the cadians for this tbh, weren't they supposed to have a population something like 40 billion, and about 40 billion guard? There's 20 billion alone, some are kids, and some are retired... I mean... instructors
@@Nathan5027 perhaps a bit of hyperbole, but since Cadia is/was the first line of defense against the forces of Chaos. It only makes sense they would have a strong military tradition where everyone learns basic self defense and firearms drills as part of the curriculum....
I just pictured a bunch of Cadian kindergartners learning how to field strip, clean and run rudimentary maintenance of a lasgun. That is equal parts awesome and terrifying.
I love how you wrote this, like 41k of gene tailoring and mutations probably led to men and qomen having near or equal physical capabilities, some people here are just sexist omg an example of what some people wrote is "who will make meals" "they are just to make babies" wtf
Females also are the ones who give birth. That ability to give birth means repopulation after losses. This is one reason women are not often placed on the front line.
Wartime human rights and policy is often based on recovery from loss, not the hope for a victory or chance the plan went off with out a hitch.
"Plan for the worst, hope for the best."
Kriegers looking at you like oh yall dont got clones?
@@samidib10 I was about to say, you ain't see Vita wombs?
@@samidib10 Higly regulated tech and I would dare to say that most worlds lack the technology to maintain them or view it as heretical.
All so its bit establish in the lore that cloning is risky busness.
Wait wait wait..... at your planet they give natural birth? What kind of disgusting Feudal World are you from?
Vita Wombs is the best way to go! (KRIEG FOR LIIIIIFE!)
And that more than anything is why women have historically been barred from combat. If your nation or tribe suffers 90% male casualties but all the women of child bearing age survive then so does your culture and people. The actual difference in physical capabilities is a less pressing issue than ladies make babies and babies are any nations futures. 🤷🏼
How is life for women in 40k?
Just like men but without D.
Also more birthing.
Grimdark Soccer Mom who kills Tyranids.
@@delix i mean considering slaanesh is a thing having a D does not necessarily prevent 'birthing'
@@michaell8000 Well yeah, but that isn't something any rational being should expect or rely on to replace their cannon fodder... Especially the Imperium. I'll give you that you're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct, though.
So looking through the comments, I see this point hasn't been mentioned yet so I will do my best to explain WHY there are so few females in the Guard at least. The Astra Militarium recruits it's solders from the very best of the PDF of a planet. They are checking for raw physical capabilities first and foremost when doing said recruitment drives, and Males tend to be more physically dominating. There are larger numbers of female solders in a planets PDF, the books just tend not to talk much about a PDF over the Guard. It's like with the NFL here in the USA. Did you know there is NOTHING stopping a female from trying out for a spot on an NFL team? They don't get picked because, even if the female is in the top 1% of all females, they are still competing against the top 1% of the males, where being able to kick a ball (kicker is the most common position females try out for) just a few more feet will get the coach to pick the male over the female.
I wonder if there exist spezialized troops that would consider the endurance advantages of the female body in the Guard and even improve upon them with gen therapie and implants. I mean there are examples nowadays for squads in the military like mountain hunters in my country but then again the guard isn't known for having a "scalpel" mentality in terms of precision but rather that of a "sledgehammer". I guess gender becomes less relevant in organisations like the adeptus mechanicus as cybernetics allow for alot of modifactions of any kind. Like extra arms with meltas and so on.
The thing is theoratically there exists technology in 40k that could alter the differences between the genders in terms of strength, endrucance and so on but is it worth the investment from the imperiums standpoint? Seems they only consider it so in some cases like the callidus assassin where the females gender seems to way better in the operatives intended performance.
@@MrCemicalX even without tweaks women would serve much better in the Navy than the army. The unique physical and psychological characteristics of women make them much more resistant to long duration tours in cramped environments. The US Military did tests for submarine operations and found women handled the stress better. It would be interesting to know the percentage of women in the Imperial Navy, especially if the writers knew that little tidbit of information.
Historically women in an army were nurses but even in modern times the medics are the most popular female soldiers with the best attitude. In 9 years of service I have never seen a female soldier live up to her average male counterpart, the USMC just officially proved what we've always known & the most hated in a unit are the company level clerks (I call cunts) every single one was more trouble then they are worth
@@joshuahogan3475 Very interesting, I didn't know about the navy's studies into the matter. I only knew from my country's in an all female unit that was etablished in a field that before was also mainly utilised by men. Mountain hunters refered to specilized squads in mountains and are probably mostly known for their extensive uses of skis to traverse said terrain in colder climates, at last to the general public. An aspect endurance sure is appreciated.
@@MrCemicalX Well for the most part, the Guard does not give a shit about your gender. While the PDF commanders, Imperial Governors, and Munitorium recruitment officers might spout off about how the Guard takes "the best of the best", at the end of the day, they will take anyone who can hold a lasgun. More to the point, I believe the 1st Tanith "Gaunt's Ghosts", a light recon regiment specializing in scouts, snipers, and other marksmen (a role women excel at) have many female recruits, but this was less of an intentional recruitment drive and more of 'we will take what we can get, half the regiment is dead'
The sisters of battle were created because clergy is banned from having any sort of "Men at arms" aka any fighting men so to speak - and so this was a loophole :D Officially they do not have any men at arms at their disposal... so technically that is true. ;p
@@Ben-of-old-Yorkshire nah, the Ecclesiarch wanted their own force like the Ad Mechs and Astra Militarum. But Goge Van Dire, with his betrayal led the High Lords to enforcing a law that says the Ecclesiarch would never be allowed to have "Men in Arms", and nothing on women.
Regardless it's still very funny and 40k for an army made on a loophole to be one of the best lines of defense against traitor and xeno attacks.
@@Ben-of-old-Yorkshire The Administratum allowed for the creation of sisters of battle as an organisation who in theory was supposed to protect the holy sites controlled by clergy. Administratum allowed this because this meant that other miliatry forces would not get "indoctrinated" thus becoming loyal to clergy - they saw this as sort of lesser evil Since still the sisters would have to really on imperial navy for transport between the stars or for ammo and supplies provided from administratum itself. It was a clever way to appear to clergy as giving them some ground all the while keeping a firm hand on the proverbial leash and kept clergy from gaining footholds within other military branches and those were heavily influenced by the good graces of the administratum otherwise they would... meet with problems with shipments or supplies or new ships or parts for them and so on - if you have that kind of power over organisations you can expect them do to what you want at least most of the time ;p
Even astartes are to a point not immune to this - or their ships would suffer problems of the same nature - no fuel or parts or shall we say delays in new power armor shipments form mars. The siege of Vraks was a good example what can happen when administratrum wants to exert that kinds of power as they literally ordered some troops to be withdrawn in order to put a snag into inquisitiorial plans there.Which infuriated the inquisition obviously but they couldnt do anything about it as administratrum gave fairly valid reasons for doing so :D
You people seem to forget that the sisters of silence exists
@@Samantha-jv6xu Except sisters of silence usually work not with clergy but inqusition - yet another separate branch of Empire of man and their purpose is mostly dealing with Demons and psykers since nearly if not all of them are blanks (soulless). Thus normally they are out of reach of normal clergy per say. So no - not really we/i did not forgot :D And in comparison sisters of battle are way more numerous since they are normal humans - and sisters of silence are blanks - aka 1 in a million in normal populatio can be a blank and that is assuming she will manage to survive to adulthood and not get killed - since blanks presence is so agravating to normal humans that most of them want to kill them on sight - which makes their numbers extremaly small. Oh and their order was created when the emperor (meaining around the time of the first crusade) was still around and sisters of battle are post heresy organisation. so the same rules do not apply.
@@krzosu don't forget they have a base on the moon of Earth. And were previously exiled pre-Roboute return due to some clerical or political error, and only recently have been officially brought back into the Imperium to help defend the Golden Palace on Terra and join the Indomitus Crusade
The ciaphus Cain novels point out that there are entire regiments made up of women, units are kept as segregated as possible to avoid unwanted pregnancy (as far as the higher command is concerned). When 2 half strength regiments are merged to form 1 full strength one, all the arguments and fighting breaking out is to do with military problems, not sexism.
After all, the imperium only cares about bodies for the battlefield, and one bullet catcher is the same as any other bullet catch, whether they have XX or XY chromosomes doesn't matter.
And tbh, it doens't matter how strong you are, if you are fighting against beings more dangerous than a human. It only matters if you can pilot a vehicle, and use a lazgun, so any physical difference isn't much of a concern.
@@MasterGhostf well...not quite. Sure, against chaos marines, the bigger orca and other nasties is useless but against normal heretics, gretchings tau and stuff like this having a strong physique actually help, especially if you get close and personal
Where my female imperial guardsmen at
@@stefanoputignano1555 we have women in Frontline combat roles irl; for the nations that have them, their only problem is with mixed units, men showing them excess deference and trying to be all chivalrous.
All studies and test have shown that there is absolutely no difference in effectiveness between male and female body types in modern combat. Including on the bayonet charge
@@Nathan5027 and yet the last tests proved mixed groups the worst in any military exercises in America and still have different training regimes
Gaunt's Ghosts really starts with Necropolis and the recruitment of the Vervunhive civilian resistance and gets the second push with the amalgamation with the Belladon 81st Reconnaissance Regiment. The camaraderie between men and women on the level of the guards, the officers and the commissars is very nice. everyone is welcome to die the the Emperor.
Very nice in a story but unrealistic in real life, soldiers naturally being a certain age range nature takes over if you follow
@@V.B.Squire you either keep going until you make commissar in the Imperial Guard or you die for the Emperor. Either way you keep going. Besides this is not about real life, dude.
Inquisitor Katarinya Greyfax
Commander Shadowsun
Lelith Hesperax
Captain Lotarra Sarrin
Saint Celestine
Tanau Aleya
Deathcult Assassins
Jain Zar
Macha
Yvraine
Miriael Sabathiel
The Sisters of Silence
Many, many badass women missed out on before you guys made this video. Many of these names have been feared, respected, venerated and even worshiped across countless millennia in the lore. A number of these even influenced the course of 40k history too.
Furthermore, plenty of women serve in the guard. Standardized flak armor and uniforms hide their features, particularly among the Death Korp of Krieg who all wear gas masks. No one escapes the tithe and their duty to the Imperium, man or woman, on pain of death.
Aaaaaand I don't care.
You're forgetting the silent sisters also. They are HUGELY important and also work alongside the Adeptus Custodes in guarding the God emperor of mankind, blessed is he.
They were also made by the Big E to counter Psykers and Warp Spawns during the Great Crusade. Unlike the Sisters of Battle who were made recently during the time between the 30th and 40th millenium
@@electricfeverx976 Exactly right.
But isn't like, the fact their silent kinda like, problematic
It's less that there is gender based discrimination in the IG it's more that they separate male and female units in order to reduce the likelihood of distraction from the opposite gender
Or having babies
Pregnancy would somewhat diminish ones fighting capabilities
yep its one of the things that Cain had to deal with his mix gender Vahalhan regiment
CryptoPenguin angry snow men you mean
@@werdmatthias Though if the Imperium found out that for some reason pregnant women perform better in battle they would systematically encourage this and put pregnant women on the frontlines. The Imperium doesn't see gender. They're all meat to keep the war-machine moving along as far as they're concerned.
Astartes, Grey Knights and Custodes are all male, Sisters of Silence and Sisters of Battle are all female. The Imperial Navy, Astro Telepathica, Arbites, Inquisition, Assasins, Mechanicus and the rest of the dozen other minor branches I didn't list are mixed sex forces. The Imperial Guard has all female regiments, all male Regiments and then mixed Regiments some from formation and other due to combining two low strength Regiments to get a full strength one for combat. Everyone is equal in the meat grinder of 40K. Only those who don't know the setting or are bias and want to change the setting think otherwise.
He could be totally biased since he wants Female Space Marines, the most unnescesary possible addition to 40k.
@@electricfeverx976 he doesn't know much about the setting from the videos I have watched. Most people don't with how big the setting is. Atleast that's my hope and he isn't a SJW who wants to change the setting kind of person.
The Meat Grinder Doesn’t Care
You made a big misconception here. You misinterpreted a lot about the guard. While yes, mostly men are recruited this is not down to some bias or anything, its because as a man when the draft comes you are more likly to fulfil the minnimum amount of recruirements to be put into a uniform sat into a line and send into your painful death a few moments later. Women are much more common in professional regiments, aka the minority of regiments (and even then they are a minority because of physical differneces and the high standarts of these regiments).
The second misconception is that gaunts ghost where all male because they where sexist or anything like that. It was because at least to my knowledge tehy were a all male regiment. the guard splits regiments on creation based on sex, aka ful female vs full amle regiments. (look at ciaphas cain for a explicit example, even if its there a mixed regiment, but they state at the biginning taht both regiments where merged becuase of manpower shortages from a female and male into a mixed one which seem to be the expetion, which is why gaunts ghost only saw female enlistment after they had the first soidiers, becuase why try out for an all male regiment as a women, when you can go into mixed or all female ones (same for males just the other way around, plus a lot of beaurcracy).
Lastly especially in the high command sphere of imperial life women are as common as men, or at least near to it. There are many examples in the horus heresy or in later books, though the latter may be a shift from the writers and not a lore shift.
So to finish my rant a bit, women and males are seen mostly as equal in 40k, of course a lot depends on the planet you find yourself on. A women will be ppushed into battle as mcuh as a man when the times need it, though the imperium will first send in the men (when they force civillians under arm), because women are more valuble to society in the rebulding phase. A women must work the same as a man and no one will look down upon her because of it, heck if my memory serve me right I belive 40% or so of the high lords is female (please correct me if I am wrong). in a misoginistic society I don't belive 5-6 of the most powerful people in a society would be female and that is ignoring the fact that the custodian representative is alwys male because well he is a custodian, so from the mortal high lords nearly half about half, at leats as long as my memory does not lie.
U mean, dead-meat into a grinder, which is endless war?
Also their Planet exploded so you bet they would dicourage their women to fight.
@@forickgrimaldus8301 tbh, the imperium does not exactly care very much if its one planet exploding or a hundred. Case in point, Kryptman and his anti-tyranids strategy...
Don´t forget the Sister´s Of Silence and another thing, you have entier regiment´s whit only female´s.
No quality, No serious research done, and just *barely* long enough to hit that UA-cam advertising threshold. I guess Generation Films REALLY needs that sweet UA-cam ad money this month if they are pumping out low quality content like this.
True
And in the video, "women are oppressed" is repeated about once a minute... This is entirely a shitty video with no content, but filled with virtue signalling.
If I am not mistaken, they have all female guard units to avoid the complications of a mixed unit.
Mixed units don’t work well irl
@@Poopoopeepee925 they have mixed units it depends on the regiment
some are single gender some are mixed. Vostroyan 1st born are a notable mixed regiment
someone needs to sit longer in the lore XD
I'm debating rather not to introduce him to the back end of my power fist.
If American Ben would be a space marine, he would be a Lamenter.
Sadboi fate lol
He's not even worthy of that position.
The Lamenters still fight to the end even after being dealt a bad hand. This guy would be a Tau.
That's an insult to the Lamenters
American Ben is water caste Tau, trying to convince with words, when the Emperor's most holy Inquisition knows that dissent is heresy, and the heretic's only reward is a bolt shell to the head
The Imperium is equality at its best, suffering for all. FOR THE EMPEROR!
"Girls are yucky"
The Emperor, probably...
tts is pretty much cannon at this point
Bro you had a chance to talk about Nerissa an equally megalomaniacal inquisitor who tried to get revenge for her firmer master by attempting the killing of Gabriel Seth .......... ya know the lady who got a death company sent to a medical barge and got everyone killed. (I just like to take any chance to include my favorite non original chapter in any video)
Ah yes the woman who thought she could psyc out the killiest of the killiest of the super soldiers.
@@randomlygeneratedname yup I mean there’s megalomania and than there’s that lady
A man goes through body altering genetic treatment, surgeries and decades of training to become a space marine. A woman has but a drop of faith and puts on armored high heels to become a battle sister.
Astartes actually respect the Sisters though given their similarity.
@@forickgrimaldus8301 courage is the not the absence of fear, but the ability to overcome said fear. Since the space marines have their fear responses spliced out, the battle sisters are the far more heroic of the two.
@@L0stEngineer true but I ment their loyalty not their Courage, obviously the Sisters are more human than the Astates who are almost a different Species of Human.
There is also a lore reason why the sisters of battle are all women because after the reing of blood the eccleshiarchy is forbidden to have men under arms so the ecclesiarchy has the sororitas to get around the rule but they also serve the ordo hereticus of the unquisition.
The Imperium is an equal opportunity dystopia. If it can wield a gun - it goes in the Guard.
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Is he really politicizing 40K? A setting where the “good guys“ are known for committing mass genocide and forcible lobotomies on prisoners? Slave penal troops with explosive bomb collars? Warhammer 40,000 is one of the more progressive franchises. Women are represented in most factions that have genders. Eldar, imperial guard, Dark Eldar, sisters of battle, Tau, The Inquisition and Imperial Knights.
Hey they really need that UA-cam ad money this month. Things aren't cheap! Gotta pump out these videos fast and low quality as possible!
Don't forget the Sisters of Silence
@@sonofjack6286 I was kind of including them in the Inquisition. But yes
also, slaneesh daemons. Chaos does not exactly discriminate against anyone. Well, except maybe against pariahs.
@@michajastrzebski4383 They are hermaphrodites. Male and female at the same time
Commander Shadowsun and Lelith Hesperax want to have a word.
Inquisitor Amberly Vail wants a few words too and if anything is left, Lady General Jennit Sulla, Corporal Mari Magot and Magos Felicia Tayber would like to step on those remains and then Ephriel Stern, the Thrice-born would like to vaporize those stepped on remains with her mind
@@weldonwin Elishabeth Bequin would like to join the chat
@@ukaszbiaek6641 is it too late for Adrastia to use her inferno pistol?
1:45 it's not by choice but by Imperial decre that "In the name of His infinite wisdom, and by His immortal authority, we, the High Lords of Terra, do hereby decree the Ecclesiarchy forbidden to gather, train, promote, sustain, or in any way command any force of men under arms."
Therefore the Sister of battle are only composed of Female in order to sirconvain an law (and it's badass to have space nones with flamers)
“Nun”
I’m sorry but you were eventually gonna get grammar police anyways just know I am sorry
@@lapu2407 thanks, no hard feelings, English is not my mothertongue any correction is appreciated.
Dual sex regiments. Are more common than you think. Tanith first and only valhallen 597 and most Cadian regiments.if your cadian you fight for the emperor.they are also in the pdf and comisariat. Also don't forget assassins.the only exception is the space marines and that's down to the lore.
The adeptus astartes do have females in the chapter serfs and when I read the novel "siege of the fang" when the thousand sons assaulted the space wolves homeworld both genders fought and died side by side the space marines that where garrisoned, I wish this show did its research properly
@@marvinmason9950 Yes, but there are no female space marines. Even just the fact that males have a bit less genetic information means that there will be less room for failures or mutations. I don't doupt that the Emperor could have made female space marines but it's just not worth it on a larger scale, if we compare the already devastating genetic mutations on the male space marines.
But never the less: "siege of the fang" was probably my first book about the WH40k universe (one of the best novels) and now (7 years later) I'm still reading not finished with all the books from the black library, even tough I have now over 40 ^^
For the Emperor!
As far as I know, majority of Imperium is meritocracy: if you're human(or an authorized abhuman), capable, do your jobs well and stay loyal to the Imperium, they don't care about your gender, skin color and sexual preferences(except for xenophilia maybe). There are some organizations restricted to certain genders for multiple reasons(SoB, SoS, SM, etc) though.
If it isn't spent in service to the EMPEROR then they don't deserve to exist under his holy light.
I agree brother. FOR THE EMPEROR! PURGE THE HERETIC!
Imperial Men in 40k: Meatshields with guns.
Imperial Women in 40k: Meatshields with chest lobes and guns.
“40K is so sexist, there’s no strong female characters.”
Enters Lelith Hesperax, who eats space marines for breakfasts while looking hot af. Besides that bare feet is a huge bonus. HERESY!!!!! *BLAM
youtuber: "no strong female characters". Eldar farseers and screaming banshee aspects: "hold my beer"
Khorne cares not where the blood come from, as long as it flows.
I am gonna go out on a limb here and say that equality in the face of constant threat of death kinda gets put on the back burner .
You never see American Ben and British Ben at the same time. I suspect a Dr. Jekyll conspiracy.
Space marines, grey knights and Custodes are ONLY MAN armies, same as sisters of battle and sisters of silence are ONLY WOMAN armies. Only exceptions are female serfs to the chapters and male priests supporting the sisterhoods. Guard is extremely inclusive, but some regiments may be not, because beliefs, values and ways of war of each regiment is connected to its homeworld society. There are societies of wild barbarians and societies of spaceship dwellers in the Imperium serving next to each other (and it is on commissars and brass to not mix too explosive/accidental freidly fire/ combinations of regiments)... Of course, wh40k is open and quite rad for fully lemale regiment, granted the fan who introduces it wil provide lore/fluff background and meaningfull in universe context for it :D. And the ruling body of imperium changed, when Guiliman rose back to life. Mostly by assassination of those who were actively fighting against his rule (and wanted back their comfy statux quo).
Not to mention Callidus assassins and Sister of Silence.
Women also require different hygienic logistics. You can drop a bunch of guys in a trench for a month and they'll be fine, females would have to be extra concerned about their menstruation and the fact that the vageenama is a wet pocket that collects bacteria. Historically when pushed into combat roles dying of blood infection was a serious issue if their specific hygiene requirements are not met. Extra logistics is frequently impossible and taking to time to keep clean takes your focus away from your duties and in a profession where even your bowel movements are regulated and scheduled its just a problem.
I know this is anecdotal but I served with females in a role that wasn't "combat", but we were awarded CABs, and females had a lot more needs to fulfill and limited their combat capabilities. They can fight just fine when they need to, its just an extra layer of logistics and concerns that keep most militaries from putting women in combat roles. Though it had been brought up recently in the US military that they have needed to lower the PT requirements to get more females in more MOS's.
Facts here, it is mostly true but you likely won't get many likes.
@@AwankO No worries, i just wanted to share my experience on something I feel is regularly misrepresented. People disagreeing is part of healthy discussion.
Femalesx are allowed to join the guard the thing is mixed regiments aren't that common but there are all female regiment in 40k. The reason mix regiments are made is the 2 rtegiments are decimated beound use and so they are mixed with another regiment that has taken similare losses and so make one regiment again.
Men and women are all equal in Imperium.
Both have the same right to die for Emperor!
True Equality is Equal Suffering
You can thank the Emperor for no female space marines, the whole transformation from human to space marine is keyed to male puberty (hormone replacement therapy isn't a thing apparently), the sisters of battle were mentioned yes but what about the sisters of silence, the imperial navy, the adeptus mechanicus, the imperial knights, the navigators/other psykers? all feature female characters
If GW would suddenly drop female space marines, this would negate the fanbase, and remove the purpose for the sisters of battle, silence, etc. Everyone (or at least most) has a faction representing cultures and genders in fun and badass ways combined with models. Thats all we need.
Sisters of silence are often forgoten and they are way cooler than sisters of battle
Thats debatable.
why would the imperial guard take women when they could be at home makeing new meat for the grinder?
*Happy Krieg Gasmask noises*
The Ciaphas Cain novels have a good number of female characters in positions of leadership. Col. Regina Kasteen led the all-female 296th. Inquisitor Amberley Vail makes a number of appearances with her entourage.
The reason you dont see female guardsmen cuz games workshop doesnt want to make a new mold/model
3:31 I’d presume the reason that gaunt’s ghosts didn’t recruit females is because imperial guard regiment are always unisex, (barring exceptions as always). I’d imagine than the reason for gaunt’s ghost to recruit women is that they are a regiment without a home world, so they already can’t fulfill one of the other recruitment rules (recruit from your home world/system). So when they got their first female soldier they may have just decided that they wave so many rules that breaking few more won’t matter, rather than them being sexist beforehand.
And yes, all - female regiments are a thing. Granted they show up very rarely, but they do officially exist.
Well, the Sororitas being exclusivelly female is literally because eclessiarchy is legally banned from having any "MEN at arms" due to previous shizm. So, they did a legal plot twist, went with WOMEN in arms, and then won discussion with the Inquisition on technicality. And firepower.
The Adeptus Sororitas are pretty awesome though
I suspect there are many reasons for fewer women in the 40k military, many (possibly all) mentioned by other posts.
1. Men make better soldiers in a universe where close combat is a thing (on average)
2. Maintaining birth rates is critical for population and therefore troop replenishment given the level of casualties suffered by the imperium on any given day.
2.a Technological reproduction would only be available on certain worlds.
3. Many worlds either are or were reduced to primitive levels after the fall and would resemble similar societies from our past with roughly equivalent attitudes towards women.
4. Where choice is an option women are less likely to choose to enter the military generally speaking.
5. A lot of 40k society takes its lead from Terra and the High Lords are male nobs.
6. (and this is the most important one) The vast majority of WH40k players are or at least were male when warhammer was developing and gender equality wasn't a concern at that time, because it wouldn't sell more figures. When they realised guys would like to paint more female figures than just slaanesh demons and eldar they created the sisters of battle to fill the niche.
Overall the perception of what people wanted coupled with real world militaries and their history probably dictated how the lore was written and who it was written for.
Edit: Also anything not relating to war is relatively sparsely covered in 40k as far as I've seen.
ONE ANSWER: Commissar Cain is in command of a mixed regiment of women and men. In the first book, it states that women make up roughly 10% of the guard's forces. So if you want some awesome female characters and non-conventional storylines COMMISSAR CAIN is the storyline you want.
Imperium is made of milion worlds and the Imperial governement rarely interacts with them and they are mostly ruled by the governors. As long as taxes are paid, soldiers (of unspecified gender) provided and Emperor is worshiped, the goverenor has the right to do whatever he wants, including the treatment of women and any other human group. And lets not forget, milion worlds equals milion cultures each of these cultures will treat women differently, one planet may be a strict patriarchy the other one fully egalitarian and third one matriarchal.
Yes
Not sure if this is canon, but I read this somewhere that I think accurately describes woman's rights in the Imperium:
A Planetary Governor once decreed that all woman were to stay at home as that was where he believed they belonged, barring them from working and joining the military.
The Inquisition shot him.
Not because he was sexist, they didn't care about that, but because he was wasting half of his planet's workforce.
Human life is The Emperor's Currency, and the Imperium does not like it when you waste what is The Emperor's.
In short: The Imperium is sometimes so despotic that it hits equality from the other side. Also, it goes without saying that in the wide, vast Imperium for all of the planets ruled by a ruthless patriarchy, there are also plenty of planets ruled by a just as ruthless matriarchy.
Doesn’t Kreig have literal baby factories?
There is also "what would Commisar Cain do, of course a suicidal frontal assault" general Gennit Sulla, the biggest chadette in Valhallan history.
There are men's and women's sports leagues for a reason. Since war is not a game, there are no separate accomodations made for females. Physical strength, bone density, lung capacity, and aggression will always rule the battlefield.
Ben after seen this new hair cut, I have fallen in love with you.
I served in the Dutch army and we had women in them.
Guess how could not stand in fight training.
How needed help during the obstacl training.
There is simply a differences between men and women. It's simple nature
Equal opportunity doesn't mean equal results. All are expected to give their lives in service.
This is a very weak topic for a whole video. It feels like so little thought was put into making this video. It just screams like you spent 10 minutes on wikipedia then jumped in front of the camera, and rambled for 8 minutes with no real focus. You can do much better. I suggest you make your videos more focused next time. Not to mention you didn't even bother to talk about women in OTHER ALIEN RACES in the 40K universe. Humans aren't the only ones who have women.
Commander Shadowsun and Lelith Hesperax want to have a word.
@@edc2879 also, eldar Farseers are mostly female in books/games. Also, screaming banshees aspect warriors are female only iirc.
I want to know about the 1000 other genders and their place in 40k.
Why you dream about a guardsmen and not a space marine? Because it's more likely you'd/all of us would be a guardsmen
More likely we'd all be hivers
@@johnroberts4456 most likely we'd all be dead
Don't forget the Valhallan 597th attached to Ciaphias Cain, under the command of Regina Kasteen. It was made up of two former regiments and one of them was an all female regiment.
Loving the new do Ben. Amazing how many people have undergone image changes during Covid time.
Thx dude 😁✌️
You seem to get a lot wrong, the reason that the gaunt ghost didn’t have woman at the start was because it was raised as a men’s regiment. Women get there own regiment this is done because imperial guardsmen serve with each other for many year, this done to keep discipline up and stop them from distracting each other.
Although this is not alway the norm as regiment are merch together to keep them at full strength, you should read cain first book as it show this happening and the women commander get overall Command of the new regiment. This is only because she has been serving a little longer than her male counter part, even though he has a lot more combat experience than her.
Finally you really should read more of the book as the one that are about the high lord have women as part of the high lords. In all the imperial doesn’t care really, every one is another body to the grinder.
It isnt discriminatory to want to keep those with THE single most important ability, the ability to create qnd succesafully raise children, away from war and violence. But our society makes mountains out of mole hills and says this is that so what do i know.
Well, the benefits of civilization and more stability. If civilization "💩" ever, hits the fan, all those rights get roasted quickly replaced with survival.
Meat for meat grinder the imperium does care if you are male or female.
I have no idea how you could possibly come to the conclusion that women don't serve as much in the 40K military. There are 500 Trillion Men and Women serving in the Imperial Guard in 40K. On Cadia alone, there are entire families where every single member is a soldier, and they are trained from birth to fight in the armed forces regardless of gender. The fact that you don't know this means you did so little research, and should be ashamed. Delete this video. It is not worthy of having the Generation Tech badge.
why would the guard take on women when they could be at home making new meat for the grinder?
@@elitemook4234 the Imperim doesn't care if they make babies or join the war or even become a High Lord as long as they are doing their duty to the Emperor.
This extends to Imperial local/Planetary policy, being very hands off as long as they Pay their taxs whatever or however.
@@forickgrimaldus8301 That's dumb. Their duty is to make soldiers for the Empeor.
@@elitemook4234 no that doesn't work that way in the Imperium, as its very decentralized. Either this is a troll or you have not read up on the lore.
You have family houses that are Matriarchies, High Lords who are women, even the Emperor himself enlisted the help of a woman who was 2nd only to him in understanding genetic manipulation and where the Astartes got their name which also comes from Astarte which is the Goddess of War and Fertility, yes Space Marines are named after a woman whos name comes from a fertility Goddess, let that irony sink in.
@@forickgrimaldus8301 I really hope you have a better argument than 'look at all this new lore GW injected in retroactively to pander to identity politics'. But if you did you would not have resorted to it, would you?
Your hair looks good Ben. 👍
Thx😬✌️
This video is poorly researched and makes a lot of assumptions. Just because some groups don't have a perfect 50/50 split of men and women doesn't mean they are actively discriminating against women. The simplest answer why more man are in the armed forces than women is simply that someone has to raise the next generation of soldier back home. Also men especially in the Imperial Guard are send in the millions to die horrific deaths on battlefields all over the Imperium but women are the ones getting discriminated against because they are mostly spared from fates like these, yeah right...
tbh, in 40k, raising another generation is quite often just a breeding vat...
@@michajastrzebski4383 Breeding vats aren't that common in the Imperium. Technology like these are given only to very special planets, like Krieg, since like every technology in 40k it's very hard to reproduce and maintain also if the people of the planet aren't already highly resistant to mutations it can lead to them developing unwanted mutations from overuse.
As much as I love the absolute glut of great 40k content we're getting lately (this channel included obviously) I'd love to see you guys tackle some Battletech stuff. Much like Warhammer, there's lots of rich lore as the game was created in the 80s.
Lotara Sarin is one bad ass woman in all WH40k the commander of the World Eater Flagship Conqueror, the only human, female! given the bloody red hand mark by Angron thus cementing her reputation amongst the World Eater ranks...
Mel, what American Ben does not realize is that there are entire regiments of all female and sometimes coed in the imperial guard. However, I don’t see them anywhere else important.
Pretty sure any female who grows up on Catachan could destroy any male guardsman
I do have to mention, that the high lords of terra are sometimes composed of several female humans. They live longer than the average human, but they die eventually. The Imperial guard has several regiments with females as the leading figures (Especially geneformed for that task are the leading figures of the geno two five chiliad) or a nearly equal quota of females to males. Even the husquarls (soldiers of Fenris) are essentially the whole human population of the Aett and the gender is something without any interest. As long as you can serve you will serve. On the otrher hand, there are as many wsystems and policies as there are planets in the Imperium of man.
For the Emperor!
You will find different levels of freedoms based on race and gender on different worlds on a local level. The Imperium at large doesn't care what you have between your legs or what race you are (unless you are a xenos) as long as you work, fight and die for Emperor and Imperium.
The average lifespan of an imperial guard is an hour to a day if lucky. I don't think it matters what the guard has between their legs, they be gettin WAAARGH'ed sooner or later.
What is life in 40k for women like?
The same as men, just slightly more protected because they can give birth to more cannon fodder.
It's a fantasy game they could have quite easily added females to the forces, may be it's more of a problem for the Developers and lore creators.
While the High lords of Terra are "highest" governing body they do need to support of the nobles and influential figures to make some of the decisions, otherwise their rule will be short lived. Also anyone can rise to the top in the Imperium if you are conniving and ambitious enough, not just men.
Most just watch some of the visual art of 40k and go "there are not enough women therefore they are not represented".
Read the books, there are only women regiments in the Imperial guard, they are psykers, inquisitors, ship captains, nobles in high places, hive gangers, people integral to the story as either main and/or side characters.
I don't know why you needed a whole video for this topic. The answer is short and simple. Life for women in Warhammer 40k is grim and short. Just like it is for the men. All are thrown into the meat grinder of the Imperium's war machine.
There are plenty of female members of the guard but there not mentioned as much as 40k lore is about figureheads if you actually look at the new books you find the guard and stormtroopers are generally well mixed it's just in most cases who you think about the are few influential female figure heads but that's my opinion
Novel wise we slowly start to see more and more females in the Guard for many regiments. The thought process being, why limit half the species to keep fighting?
As for the Sisters of Battle, this whole army is literally just one gigantic loophole that the Ecclesiarchy abused since they were mandated to have an army of "men" under arms.
In all honesty, it's just like you said, it depends on the world on how they see women. Usually they could give a crap as to who joins the Guard. Can you walk? Can you hold a gun? Can you kinda aim in the right direction? Are you Human-ish? Then you can join the Guard.
Their there are three different types of regimen single sex male, single sex female, mixed sex like the 597 your also stretching it a bit they don’t care if your male or female
They only care that you die and do your duty which is to die.
Every human in the 40k universe has exactly the same right. The right to die for the emperor.
1:00 You expect Equality in any form in Warhammer 40k for anyone? Please consult a doctor, because apaprently you just lost your *entire memory* of how the setting works!
This is a sum-up I could find with google: "To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. *Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war.* There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods."
40k is such a chad universe that even the woman are chads
Probably why it attracts so many chuds.
4:51 ah the old ball and chain
The sisters are the only warriors of the Church because of a loophole, the Churche can not have men under arms, so they found a loophole. And the Astra militarum also usually splits Female and Male regiments so that the soldiers don't develop romantic relationships. There are also mixed regiments, (like the Valhallan 597th) but they are not very common
It's also common for 2 regiments from the same world to be merged, if they're devastated during a campaign. These scratch regiments, as they're often called, sometimes have a female regiment merged with a male regiment. If they're an effective fighting force, they don't always get split up afterwards unless one was a mechanized regiment and the other was a light infantry regiment.
Oh there is Equality in 40k for women, everyone must serve the emperor or die
the reason the astartes don't have any women, its because all chapters are upgraded from regular humans using a gene seed from their primarch, but all primarchs were men so its actually imposible to implant a gene seed on a woman
I remember reading the beast series and there was a lesbian female leader of the inquisition, and yes she was a high lord
There we go...Truth...Not clickbaity BS
For a citizen of the Imperium, prey for uneventful lifes.
Read Gaunts Ghosts!
Read Commissar Cain books,
Lots of Inquisition stuff too.
If you have 10 men and 10 women you are fine.
If you have 10 men and 1 women your in trouble because that's a child every 9 months
If you have 1 man and 10 women your fine because that's 10 children in 9 months.
I think it's easy to say that a lot of women aren't thrown onto the front line but women are important to keep producing people for the imperium war machine. Of course I don't think like this irl because it's fucking skewd.
I think there are 2 points to be made.
Are you talking 40k in books or 40k in other media (like miniatures, games etc)?
1:
In case of books, females are represented quite often. Maybe not a fair 50/50 ratio, but rather a 30/70 (obviously depending on what type of story the author is telling) Also noteworthy, that in 90% of the cases females are represented, they are portrayed as equals in the scope of abilities to men.
Now in other media, its true that the representation is lacking a bit but GW has taken steps to rectifying it, and make it more compatible with the lore. Exception to this are the Eldar/Drukhari, where females are represented both in books and other media, with a pretty fair 60/40.
2:
Another thing I want to point out, that may seem small but i consider to be quite important. There are plenty of female Inquisitors. And I think that this is important, as inquisitors are some of the most powerful members of Imperial society, expected to operate on every planet. Which in turn means that females can and do climb into positions that command huge respect from every branch of the imperial hierarchy. And they are respected not because of their gender, but because of their Job.
Its good that you mentioned that every planet has its own way of dealing with gender issues, but I think that Imperial High society in general doesnt concern itself with gender really. It is only shown poorly to the audience/consumer.