When three lilies are arranged in a pattern in which the largest lily is lowest and the next one up is smaller and the next one is even smaller than the second, the designer is using the technique called <em>Sequencing</em>.
The myth about men fighting women in wars being viewed as wrong is outdated. Nowadays women go through the same training as men in order to go to war. If they pass the training, it means that they are physically, mentally and tactically fit and capable of going to war. Some of them are even better than their male counterparts and therefore sparing them during the war due to their physical inferiority is a costly mistake as those things take more than physical strength.