Execution was different.
Whatever you think of the principle of never hitting a woman (i think it´s nonsense but to each his own), it was to uphold that principle in the end. He did not choose to go to Kalifa, it was coincidence. He showed her his superiority and still tried to get the key inside the confines his principle allowed to.
He did not, in the middle of a war in which everyone has to bring their A-game, go off after hearing women of the opposite side screaming, and pretty much letting the entire crew down by thinking with his dick.