Women don't need permission

[orangecrush]

To kick ass.

They've been doing it in the world of espionage since the old testament.


https://youtube.com/shorts/lz98zvUPLhI?si=sKjGf_uvay_-y6GY

[Skittles]

1. HEAR, HEAR

yes INDEED

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Joan of Arc,

Mata Hari,

Female Spies of the Civil War: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-spies-of-the-civil-war-162202679/

[orangecrush]

3. Rahab

The Hebrew אשה זונה (ishah zonah), used to describe Rahab in Joshua 2:1, literally means "a prostitute woman".[8] While the Talmud holds to that interpretation, some sources in Rabbinic literature insist that she was an "innkeeper," based on Targum Jonathan and other texts (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פֻנדְקֵיתָא, romanized: pundǝqeṯā[9]). Rahab's name is presumably the shortened form of a sentence name rāḥāb-N, "the god N has opened/widened (the womb?)".[10] The Hebrew zōnâ may refer to secular or cultic prostitution, and the latter is widely believed to have been an invariable element of Canaanite religion, although recent scholarship has disputed this.[8] However, there was a separate word, qǝdēšâ, that could be used to designate ritual prostitutes.[8]

Josephus mentions that Rahab kept an inn but is silent as to whether merely renting out rooms was her only source of income.[11] It was not uncommon for both an inn and a brothel to operate within the same building; thus entering Rahab's quarters was not necessarily a deviation from Joshua's orders. Indeed, as Robert Boling notes, such an establishment might have represented an ideal location for spies to gather intelligence.[8] A number of scholars have noted that the narrator in Joshua 2 may have intended to remind the readers of the "immemorial symbiosis between military service and bawdy house".[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahab