Some veterans have criticised military reenactment as glorifying 'what is literally a human tragedy.' "‘If they knew what a war was like’, said one Second World War combat veteran, ‘they’d never play at it’. Further, some feminist critiques of certain kinds of reenactment, such as Civil War reenactment, "builds up a prosthetic symbolic male white body, embedded in an archaic racialized gender system: the clothing and the tools normally intensify male whiteness. Thus, even if the outer appearance of the uniformed female reenactor is flawless, her participation is deemed unacceptable by most male reenactors." Some reenactments more recently have allowed women to participate as combatants as long as their appearance can pass as male from a specified distance.