[Glenn E. Meyer]

As in a conversation, I was having with Pax - part of the feminist objection to firearms by some is their own belief in the incompetence of women to use guns. Seems contradictory but it's there in statements.

I was at a conference where Oyster and Stange were presenting their book Gun Women. They are college profs. Anyway another women prof said exactly that guns were a male paradigm. She could teach women to defend themselves with piercing shrieks and pinches (not making this up).

Ann Richards - supposedly a role model for free TX women, said that no woman could find a gun in a purse through all the lipstick, etc.

Luckily there are feminist progun folks - but they won't be on Rachel Madow.

There is an interesting intersection - guns are male and a violent paradigm and in any case, women couldn't handle them anyway. Does the antipathy to guns make them believe the latter or does a subconscious acceptance of male superiority make them believe that in the SD domain, they are inferior. Obviously all women don't feel that way. Hard to parse out from casual observation.