Women were staples at these executions, pretty much every source suggests from the get go. Some sources suggest that women and boys traditionally made up the majority of the crowd. But this is the errar remember, that has certain built in assumptions amongst a lot of the intelligencia about human nature. And one of those assumptions has to do with womanhood, and how women are naturally the more compassionate sex. Once again, if womanhood is really like this ideal, compassionate, in a mothering state, than what we're seeing when we see women go to these executions are twisted people, people with a screw loose.