yeah well good luck with that [rolleyes]

Some of them were posting semi-boobie pictures on glocksunlocked yesterday. One is a real hottie.

Course I'd rather see some grizzled old fat guy with his 1911--not.

Or, to put it another way...

There are a lot of insecure guys on gun boards, most (but certainly not all) of them in their teens or 20s.  As soon as a woman shows up on one of the message boards, they are immediately propositioned, given "requests" (i.e., demands) to "post a picture to prove you're a girl" [rolleyes], or accused of either being a man in disguise or of being a tramp/whore/attention-seeker.

Since most folks who come here are fairly new to ARs, and often new to guns in general, they already feel they are on shaky ground.  Add all of the crap that the women have to endure, and it's no surprise that most quickly leave.  The few who stay are either spouses of existing board members (who are "protected" to some degree by other members who know of the relationship) or are both confident and determined enough to put up with all of the crap long enough that most of the guys get over the fact that they are there.

The funny thing is: it's mostly the same people who wonder why there are no women here, or are lamenting the absence of the ones that no longer post, are the ones who always participate in driving them away (I'm not talking to you, clean_cut, in this case).

The reason this doesn't happen at GlockTalk is because a couple of women who are ACTIVE shooters are moderators there and they fend off the attacks on the new women by locking accounts of the people who are doing the attacking.  Thus looking like "wusses" to many of the guys here.

It’s really sad, because no one could do more to ease the pressure to ban “assault weapons” and other “bad guns” then a bunch of women who are experienced shooters and well-educated on the issues.  But some percentage of the guys have to hound them until they run away, every time.  And we wonder why “no one listens to us.”

-Troy

Maybe, but you should know that I'm more freaked out by that damn spider than knowing your well-armed husband is running around the board!  [:D]  (Did I mention that my only irrational fear is BUGS, and spiders in particular?)

Anyway, I *like* having women around.  Even if I don't always agree with what they have to say, I apprecate their perspective.

And I'm not real pleased with the fact that the behavior of that "dedicated" minority further serves to solidify to many people the negative stereotypes that they hold of gun owners.

I wish we did a better job at this.

-Troy

is that where titanium tits went?