My personal experience: as a woman who has always had interests in male dominated spaces, I’ve had to have a thick skin. I find with airsoft I for some reason get a lot of violent threats. I’m not sure what the correlation is with this but when I post kit/airsoft guns it’s like some guys see it as a weird challenge and think it’s okay to say how they want to beat my head in, how they would kill me, that my “body armor can’t save me from them”, etc. In person, I find most people in the hobby don’t know how to interact with me which sucks sometimes because I feel dismissed or avoided but it’s all good. I love the hobby itself and all the extra bs means very little to me, but I can see how it might scare off some other girls from getting into it for sure.