Awwwwwwww, "darn" it. I knew 'it' was coming. Kindly understand, no personal offense was meant and DEFINATELY not to women in general. Only to females pretending to be reporters and writing about 'stuff' they know nothing about.
But please try understand, the p.c. nonsense in 'journalism' is out of hand. Especially (IMO) when it comes to guns and/or gun crime articles. I swear if one checks 99.65487% of articles that have a gun somewhere in it, it's now written by a female or one contributed - that was my 'union rule' sarcasm. And 99.5% of the time the article is wrong as to the gun part.
Even Fox News does (did) it - a pistol used in a shooting magically became an AK-47 when Laurie Dhue 'reported' on it. This was before ANY info was released from the police. But AK-47 sounds nice and scary on TV doesn't it. Oh and as soon as the gun was ID'd as a pistol by the cops Laurie Dhue never mentioned the shooting again!
I've written to these female reporters on their BLATANT mistakes countless times and I have now given up do the idiotic responses received. One blamed 'their gun expert' and another basically responded, 'so what'.
"So What", Well excuse me but when every rifle (or handgun) used in a crime becomes an AK-47 in their story it IS not a 'so what'. It's bad journalism, utter IGNORANCE, or - shock - pushing their personal anti-gun agenda.
btw, I believe you used the word pedantic out of context. But then again I'm not an expert on that - or pretend to be for a newspaper. Wanna talk about guns?
(I'm kidding, don't have a hissy fit)
Ha. I just propose that MOST of the MSM, male and female is ignorant of guns. Laurie Dhue reads cue cards but they are in such a hurry to be first with news, or filling air time that they rarely try to be correct. I see the same lack in books, with authors writing nonsense regarding guns, whether it's a Glock with the safety on, or shooting someone and having them fly back 10 feet. I guess I should add ignorance of guns and physics.
More and more people are ignorant of guns, because of the relative safety of society and lack of need to hunt or keep coyotes from your chickens.
Is the media a willing accomplice to eliminating guns, or just a product of ignorance as to what they are doing?
Lastly, stereotyping women as ignorant of guns seems pedantic to me. I think women not being more active in the 'sport' is societal also. That and maybe men being very condiscending to women at the range. Until you beat 'em anyway.
;o)