old lady new shooter
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Since I am one of the few women who post here and the other thread was closed before I got a chance to contribute, I would like to state my feelings on this topic, especially as in the time and place where I grew up, girls did not shoot, even boys only maybe shot bb guns.
As a female one internalizes at an early age the sad realization that pretty much any male with bad intentions vis-à-vis oneself will unfortunately likely be able to carry them out, unless some other male is present who is willing and able to be the knight in shining armor, but regardless the female is always the damsel in distress. This is incredibly deforming to the psyche, and I think this deforming was part of the root cause of the whole feminist movement to begin with, no human wants to go through life feeling one-down out of the gate.
Learning to shoot takes away the one-down feeling, it's tremendously empowering, enabling exactly what at least the early feminists declared to be their aim, a woman being able to be INDEPENDENT, not threatened by man x or having to be protected by man y, but able to defend herself. So I think the way to de-couple "feminism" and "gun control" is by stressing this point.
Interestingly, a few days ago on The View, a program of leftist women who would almost certainly describe themselves as feminists, there was a discussion of the recent video from the Bloomberg outfit about a woman and her stalker... three of the four women on the show expressed SUPPORT for women being armed. (See http://bearingarms.com/everytown-proves-best-domestic-violence-prevention-armed-victim/.) The recent stories out of Detroit didn't hurt either. So I think maybe the tide is turning on this.
As a female one internalizes at an early age the sad realization that pretty much any male with bad intentions vis-à-vis oneself will unfortunately likely be able to carry them out, unless some other male is present who is willing and able to be the knight in shining armor, but regardless the female is always the damsel in distress. This is incredibly deforming to the psyche, and I think this deforming was part of the root cause of the whole feminist movement to begin with, no human wants to go through life feeling one-down out of the gate.
Learning to shoot takes away the one-down feeling, it's tremendously empowering, enabling exactly what at least the early feminists declared to be their aim, a woman being able to be INDEPENDENT, not threatened by man x or having to be protected by man y, but able to defend herself. So I think the way to de-couple "feminism" and "gun control" is by stressing this point.
Interestingly, a few days ago on The View, a program of leftist women who would almost certainly describe themselves as feminists, there was a discussion of the recent video from the Bloomberg outfit about a woman and her stalker... three of the four women on the show expressed SUPPORT for women being armed. (See http://bearingarms.com/everytown-proves-best-domestic-violence-prevention-armed-victim/.) The recent stories out of Detroit didn't hurt either. So I think maybe the tide is turning on this.