Great man: not stabbing a fallen opponent.
Good man: stabbing a fallen opponent once.
Okay man: stabbing him twice.
I love Firefly.
Stonebrow:
IANITAS (I am not in the Armed Services). Without me specifically asserting that yes there are warrior women (in the Army, Marines, or elsewhere) who are good enough fighters that you’d really really want them at your side, I would assert that, given such a female warrior, we would indeed greatly appreciate her presence fighting at our side, and that it makes her a good woman in all the ways that the same abilities makes a man a good man.
If anything — and this applies to, and undoes, any similar assertion about gender-specific desirability of traits — it would tend to inspire some people to perceive her as an exceptionally great woman precisely because its an ability and area of competence more commonly present in men. Whereas when a male exhibits it, it merely makes of him a reasonably competent man in an area where many men are equivalently competent.
But lest we conclude by that logic that what defines a good Man or a good Woman is excelling at tasks or capabilities to an extent unusual for their gender, note that doing so would inspire some people to object to perceiving such a man as less of a good man than the exceptional female warrior is a good woman, and they would say that it makes no sense to value those traits or accomplishments more in one person than in another.