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Beidou on the other hand, seems like a really nice person. She's a pirate yet the kids who know her are like, "wait it's bad to steal, Beidou says you have to take responsibility for your actions blah blah" in the quest to play pirates with three kids.
...though if she does like sensible pirates IRL and, y'know, doesn't prey on her own community's shipping nobody's going to mind since she just brings in moolahs. Takes way more than one successful pirate for irate neighbours to start protesting with war fleets after all.
^tbf...
"1335: The Scots defeat a company led by the Count of Namur. Amongst the Count's casualties was a female lancer who had killed her opponent, Richard Shaw, at the same moment that he had killed her. Her gender was only discovered when the bodies were being stripped of their armor at the end of the engagement. "The chronicler Bower seems to have been at least as impressed by the rarity of two mounted soldiers simultaneously transfixing one another with their lances as with the fact that one of them was a woman.""
- Wiki
Definitely rare but not completely unheard-of.
As far as KanCo and Azur go, well, those gals are ships (or the spirits thereof or whatever) which obviously rather removes the whole hog of actually operating what were the most complex machinery agglomerations devised by mankind at the time. Goes well with both Shinto's shamanistic "spirits, spirits everywhere" aspect and the fact that in at least all (gendered) European languages naval vessels are referred to as female (unless it's the Bismarck and Cpt. Lindemann talking).
The seifuku is something the Japanese (and Philippinese) first copied from period Western children's fashion in the 1800s actually.
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^Aunty Zofia (in the middle) is easy to tell from her nieces by the hairstyle and having blue eyes instead of amber. The sisters (out of battlegear) are probably most readily distinguished from each other by Maria wearing her hair much longer and tying her ponytail with a conspicuous ribbon.
...also Maggie probably looks stern and glum most of the time but that's obviously not relevant here :v
^it might of be relevant that until very recently women were straight up not allowed to become sailors at all. Mom's lowkey salty about that because as a kid she wanted to.
While that's changed now (depending on locale obv) the military in general is still overwhelmingly a male occupation and in any case career progression takes time, doubly so in peacetime, so it'll be a long time before you start seeing meaningful numbers of women in senior posts.
And obviously they aren't going to be any younger than male colleagues advancing that far either, anyway.
something something SURROUNDED BY RAGING LESBIANS
^ Bart only had one operational turret to begin with and got mere seven shots off before a shell from Massachusetts jammed its turning mechanism. It was repaired by the same evening but no further big-ship dueling occurred during the rest of the battle.
That time when he was conceived must've been one hell of a threesome.
That's actually exactly what the Sumerians thought happened when a 2guys1girl threesome resulted in preggers; equally split paternity. Hence the mathematically impossible pedigree.
I think we can excuse them for not really knowing the cellular-level nuts-and-bolts of fertilisation. :P