Woman as suicide bombers

Today the presentation was about women and conflict. In preparation for the class we were told to pick two articles out of three to read. The one that I am going to discuss is the one that talked about suicide bombers in Chechnya. The article stated that even though women blew themselves and others as a political statement women were still treated as different from a "male suicide bomber". Women suicide bombers stories are covered more extensively. For example when a woman suicide bomber attacks the media asks questions like "What happened to this woman's husband for her to have done this?" or "What happened to this ladies children?" The media does not see woman as being able to fight for a purpose larger than family and home. As there are more and more woman suicide bombers I think it will help show that woman can fight for more than what others say they can. Women fight for their country, women fight for an ideal or politicians. Women do not need to be fought for. Another sad way to look at this article is to say that maybe the women in such war torn areas do not have anything else to live for apart from what they have been told and believe is imortant. Maybe their husband is dead and their children too. To quote from Dr.Widman "the most dangerous animal in the world is a mother with young". I think that this is defiantly true but I do not think that the only way for a woman to be dangerous is if her young were harmed in any way. Women as much as men suicide bombers are brainwashed into killing themselves for a cause that is bigger than them.  I think that although suicide bombings are terrible and should not happen it is empowering women for them to be part of the violence rather than on the side lines.