The statement was meant humorously. There's certainly nothing any less feminine about a woman with a holster on her hip and in fact that can be attractive. However, I think if that's true, it's probably for the same reason a woman in a man's button-up shirt is sexy; it's something out of place, regardless of how stereotypical it sounds, and it draws your attention.CompVest wrote:I don't think there is anything at all unfeminine about a woman with a gun.Society has generated that myth.
However, there's feminine, where a woman looks and acts like a woman simply because she's a woman, even if she's a tomboy, and then there's girly-girl, where the woman is a more active participant in her femininity, often promoting the delicate damsel archetype. Both are sexy depending on what you're after, but a girly-girl wearing a holster is uncommon, especially a girly-girl who doesn't want to wear the belt holster, not because of the holster but because "belts are so last week". I was playing on the girly-girl, not women in general, and also played up the look of a leg holster with anything other than a "tacticool" outfit, and its function in combination with a dress
.I as much as anyone should know women and guns do mix; my first experience firing a rifle and indeed my introduction to real firearms was with a girlfriend who owned a .22 and borrowed her granddad's .308.
), yet she seems not to have a problem with the lack of estrogen and preponderance of testosterone found in gunpowder. The only other way a holster works well enough to trust is when it's strapped to your leg. "Cowgirl" with belt, jeans and OWB holster can still be girly. Strapping a tactical holster to a woman's thigh generally qualifies as "butch" unless she's in a latex catsuit and corset 
, or she has to pull a Marilyn Monroe to get it out from underneath her skirt 
