When the Spanish reconquered Granada in 1492, the city's last Arabic ruler, Boabdil, was seen by his mother to weep as he fled his beloved Alhambra palace. The oft-repeated legend has it that she turned to him to say: "Do not weep like a woman for what you could not defend like a man." This is an ancient legend that happened in 1492. Times changed, and today, 600 years after, women join armies and fight in equal conditions than men, and they are supposed not to be discriminated by gender questio...