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Notice that the sailors who cuffed the female were Honduran - citizens of a land far more ensnared in traditional sexism than the USA.
That is probably one of the main reasons why they didn't appear to see her as a real potential threat...in Honduras, women have little power.
Conversely, if they were trying to be 'nicer' because she was female, again we could point to the sexist society's tendency to treat women as delicate - actually, to INSIST that they be delicate.