Women don't fight where I'm from. Least, not as soldiers. I've seen a lady knight as tall as me and just as strong. Highborn ladies aren't supposed to hold a sword. [Arya and Brienne being exceptions to that rule.] And lowborn girls? Well, I reckon they know how to put their feet between a man's legs, if they have need to. S'bout all the fighting they ever learn.

[Gendry does not consider this a pretty world. His own mother was a whore in a drinking house. But it is what it is and he understands the twisted logic that created it.]