I've never made that assumption, having made two observations on the range that apply to the subject: when seeing new shooters on their first day at the range [last time was just about a year ago when I did my annual recertify shoot] it's more usually the women shooters who pay attention in class and learn, then apply those new ideas to their new task. The guys care far, far more likely to try to fake it or follow the methodology of the last action movie shootemup they saw. The results are what you'd expect. We had just shy of 40 shooters on an eight firing position range at that shoot last year, with most of the new/guys being new PD trainees [and two radio operator/dispatchers] and the new/females mostly being cop wives, with one USAF veteran and one retired female cop making the difference. Nope, not everyone's shooting was wonderful- but it was at least safe.
The other observation: at the Mitkan Adam Israeli army base, the IDF Special Training Installation, the instructors at the sniper school are all women. There are a couple of reasons for that, but the big one is obvious: they can really, really shoot.
I guess I am sick of the gun culture being so geared towards men. Why don’t you see gun mags with scantily clad firemen?
Because the largest number of shooters are men, and the publications that are geared to that audience are the ones that sell? I've never bought a gun mag because of pictures of the shooters, male or female, so I wouldn't get one with firemen either, unless those firemen could really, really shoot.
