You know what’s annoying? The fact that looks matter more than capabilities. I mean that is just absurd.

Apparently, the western media has found a new target in Asia Ramazan Antar, a skilled fighter with the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) who died while fighting the Islamic State on August 30.

Only 19, Antar was killed by an Islamic State suicide car bomber near Minbic town on the Syrian-Turkey border. She belonged to the Syrian Kurdish city of Qamishli.

Also known as Viyan, Asia was known for being a heavily skilled machine gunner who was a part of the 10,000-women strong female protection units in the war-affected region. She fought five wars before dying.

Among all of those fighters, Antar was by far, the most popular one. Besides her military skills, she was known for her undeniable beauty. This led her to be compared to Hollywood star, Angelina Jolie.

Now, I understand that you’re comparing her beauty to that of Jolie, but don’t do that when you’re announcing her death! Above all, she is a soldier. She should be remembered for her skills and courage first, and then her beauty.

Obviously, her fellow soldiers did not take this news well.

While BBC reported that the western media focussed on her looks, the Kurdish media simply called her just another fighter.

“In the media, no-one talked about the ideals for which she gave her life, nor what Viyan achieved for women in Rojava in the past four years,” Choman Kanaani, her fellow fighter, told BBC.

He also said the entire philosophy of YPJ is to fight sexism and to stop people from using women as sexual objects, and Viyan sacrificed her life fighting for these ideals.

A YPJ commander, Agrin Senna told BBC that the media is sexist in her opinion.

“Look at their pictures, they are all angels, all beautiful, you can’t pick one just because she looks like a Hollywood actress, Angelina Jolie or Julia Roberts.”

According to a report by Inquisitr.com, Antar became famous in the eyes of the western media for her good looks. Only after a while, did the stories of her tough life emerge. She had reportedly been forced into a marriage as a teenager and got divorced three months later. Eventually, she ended up joining the all-women military unit in 2014 to free Syrian women from the wrath of patriarchy.