Side Story: As we drew near to returning home after Gulf War I, the females, all three among 800 guys, became, what is the word, ‘bit#hy.” When someone commented on this another guy said; “Well, it's because they realize that in another few weeks they will be ugly again.”
My first assignment had one woman in my shop. She was the kind that commented about her son pulling her leg hair and had whiskers about 3 inches long on her chin. Since she was female nobody said anything about the facial hair.
The two young pretty women came in. oooo la la, nobody knew how the heck to act. She hated them and the guys had no idea how to act around them.
Your post brings up a point I intentionally avoided: They didn’t need to be attractive. They merely needed to be women.