After some more discussion over a nice piece of pie, the wife actually said something pretty interesting.
As I mentioned before she likes pink. A lot. However, the color of the gun is only one aspect. She also likes quality guns of a very certain kind.
And that is kind of the issue. As one poster, presumably a female pointed out, it is rather hard for women to be taken seriously at the range. I've seen the behavior tons of times, even with me standing right next to her, some guy will come up and try and show her "how it's really done" when he doesn't even have groups on his target. Then the fact that hers aren't 1/4 inch groups is blamed on recoil.
But having a "manly" gun doesn't change squat about that behavior. Hells, she doesn't even *own* a pink gun yet. (Can't quite afford the mods she wants) But the moment women roll over and say "I should just do what the men do, to be taken seriously" is when they gave up, is what she said.
When one ceases a certain kind of behavior that one likes, because of some outside influence that is unwelcome, said outside influence won.
So the moment women stop rolling up on a range with their pink handled guns, they lost the fight of being taken seriously already, no matter how good a shot they are.
That's ze wife's opinion on that. And I do like it.