Rudyard Kipling's poem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdGrZUnjPbU

http://www.potw.org/archive/potw96.html

tl/dir:

So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands.

And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him Must command but may not govern—shall enthral but not enslave him. And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail, That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male.

Does Mr. Kipling have a point? Is it a grave mistake to allow women a place among the braves in council?