Western fascination with 'badass' Kurdish womenI've seen this posted a few times. One of the idiot parties is Flying Rodent on his blog. More the problem seems to be that it is OK for Kurds to defend themselves, but if Syrian Arabs do it, they are jihadis and/or proxies for America and Saudi Arabia. See past articles by David Wearing in the Guardian culminating in the conclusion that all the opposition are no better than ISIS, so we have to ally with Assad. Whether this is due to racism against Arabs isn't the way I tend to think of things, but there are people who logically put it together that way.