You know I never got the whole “women and children” thing. The same effect can be achieved by killing the men (of not being able to make more children), so why not “men and children”? In the societies/time periods where they would talk about killing the women and children (or sparing them) the men would generally be the only ones allowed to enter combat or hunt or do anything (so killing the men and children would make for an easier village/city/whatever to pickoff). Alternatively, if we’re talking about sparing then it’s not like all men are soldiers out to kill you, so why not just spare the civilians and children? The entire idea just seems inherently flawed (not to mention sexists and unfair to a literal half of any species). Also what type of demon lord gets high off that? Just creepy