If I am not mistaken, Joan of Arc was an illiterate peasant girl, so the idea of putting her at the head of an army is quite confounding to the men that lose to her troops. As men in war, would you not feel greatly humiliated at being trounced by a young, illiterate, peasant girl? The English were, are, and always have been rather proud people. Does Henry VIII not attest to this? "He hath filled the poor and humble with good things and the rich he hast sent away empty" Also, the fact that there are hardly any other women out there like to St. Joan of Arc quite simply proves the fact of an exception and not a usual circuмstance. You are going to dissapoint a lot of little girls and ruin their dreams if you tell each of them they can be another St. Joan. If you want greatness, become humble. I've seen humility be profitable in my (short) time, even if you don't realize it 'til years later.
Another thing, if people are talking about "gender equality" and appying "gender" to people, yall should all go and study some English! "Words have a gender, people have a sex". Now, if we are going to speak of what words we can use to describe ourselves, then I'm a trans-literate tri-racial supra- normal libral-heabro-phoeb Vetus Ordo Catholic. Pretty fancy, yea? However, I can't change my gender, because I don't have one and neither do you! I can't change my sex either, since the fundamental chromosomes are impossible to modify.
It's sad... people want to play politics and attempt to side-step morality but they can't even speak their own mother tongue correctly! Maybe the reason folks don't seem to have any real logic is because they never learned the meaning of the words they're using. Maybe it's like the e-card: "I don't always know what a big words mean, but I like using them because it makes me feel so photosynthesis." Of course, at this point it also applies to the small words.
To close, I must agree with jvk. Who are we to question God when we can't even begin to speak correctly? If people are too stupid to even see what is and is not natural (or don't want to see), what makes you think they can be reasoned with? What makes you think they actually care what a God they don't believe in has to say on the matter? Most of these people wouldn't be able to accept that a fish living out of water is the exception and not the rule if it fits their fancy. And that is the point, St. Joan was an exception and not a norm. Yes, everyone has the potential to be a Saint, but not everyone chooses to be. We have it in our power to adhere to a belief even if we don't FEEL like we believe in it. That is what it means to trust, that is what it sometimes means to put faith in a Supernatural Mystery. We have the power to change our own minds and beliefs if we so choose, it's just a matter of how much we wish to commit to those changes. "I do what is hard today so that it shall be easy tomorrow" - Aristotle (?) Those who really want the truth shall continue to search, even if they don't find the answer right away.