This may be the first time I've ever opened the Women's forum. I have told my wife it's here if she ever wanted to get involved with a forum, but it ain't her thang, so I just really haven't felt the need to know what's going on in here. Kind of a whim this morning is the only way I can explain it I guess.
So anyway, the rather auspicious beginnings aside, I guess I "get" the gist of the original question, but gotta say, I reject the notion that men, in general, hold any biases against women shooters. My wife joined me in all but one of my academy training courses (9 for me, 8 for her). After 29 years together, she has consistently out-shot me even before we started taking classes together. I love shooting with her because she always gives me something to aspire to. It's why I loved being in business with her too - me running that business alone would've been a failure - with her it was a giant success in a small Alabama town where a gourmet coffee shop should've never had a chance.
My best friend, who's been a hunter, competitive shooter and concealed carrier all his life, has learned stuff both from my wife and his girlfriend that we introduced him to after she attended the last (advanced) academy class that we took together.
I am biased against careless shooters, which come in every gender, every color, even every level of training. I had a supervisor once when I worked armed security who literally put two holes in the ceiling of the indoor range where we qualified before having to go through training again to get the OK to carry on the job. Why was she a supervisor you might wonder? Because she listed her Criminal Justice BA degree as qualifying her for the job. She told the interviewer that she intended to join the FBI from that degree, but she neglected to tell them that she had never picked up a weapon in her life before that first qualifying day, which they didn't find out until they had to pay for repairs to the range ceiling/roof! It was an insult to have to take orders from that idiot, but it would've been whether such an untrained, inept and incompetent supervisor was a man, woman, or somewhere in between!
It seems apparent that the OP was made without any real first-hand experience with "biased" men. As such, you're building obstacles for yourself that aren't necessary. If someone criticizes you, it might just be because you're doing something wrong, or unsafe, or just not as effective as you could be. My wife is as good as she is because she is very self-critical. She never takes advice personally, even when it comes from someone she could probably teach to improve their techniques and tactics markedly. No one, man or woman, is out to get you. Listen and learn. That's what this forum is for.
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